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Enjoy a Safe Summer With Your Pet

Enjoy a Safe Summer With Your Pet

7 Hot Tips for Summer Pet Safety Kennett Square Summertime brings us longer days full of swimming, playing, beach trips, and outdoor activities, many of which we enjoy with our pets. That said, with hotter temperatures also come bigger risks for your pet– more...

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Tips for Keeping Your Pet Pest Free

Tips for Keeping Your Pet Pest Free

Parasite Prevention for Dogs Kennett Square If you’re a dog owner, you know that your pet is susceptible to a number of both internal and external parasites, and year-round treatment should be a component of your pet’s ongoing care. Parasites are more than just a...

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Arming Your Dog Against Pests

Arming Your Dog Against Pests

Oral Flea and Tick Prevention Fleas and ticks have been dangerous and annoying pests for dogs and cats since the beginning of time. History was changed, and the world severely impacted by the lowly flea. Everyone is aware of the Bubonic Plague, transmitted from fleas...

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Post COVID Life for Pets

Post COVID Life for Pets

Some pets may have post pandemic adjustment issues including separation anxiety. Separation anxiety in dogs is one of the most common behavioral issues we see in our Kennett Square veterinary practice.

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Loving and Losing a Pet

Loving and Losing a Pet

I was having a discussion with our office manager, Lisa, the other day. Her longtime friend and family dog, Monty, had recently died. I mentioned the fact that many of us at Longwood Veterinary Center had lost pets over the previous year, myself included.

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Keeping it Positive

Keeping it Positive

The Benefits of Positive Reinforcement in Dog Training When we find ourselves in a situation that makes us feel uncomfortable, bored, or perhaps unappreciated, what can we do? Usually there are only two options; change the situation or change how we feel about the...

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Raising a Well-Adjusted Dog

Raising a Well-Adjusted Dog

A popular buzzword in dog training is socialization. Socialization is the specific act of exposing an animal to novel situations in a slow and precise fashion focusing on keeping interactions short, positive, and fear free. Pet socialization is most effective and best implemented when a puppy is young.

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The Making of a Miracle

The Making of a Miracle

Years ago there was a small puppy that came into our hospital from a local rescue group. She had been spayed by the rescue that morning, but she wasn’t recovering from anesthesia in the normal fashion. The little puppy, so happy and excitable before the surgery, lay in a quiet mound, shivering and dull.

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5 Tips for Pet Owners During Wintertime

5 Tips for Pet Owners During Wintertime

Some dogs do fine in the cold weather, and others are more susceptible to cold. Smaller dogs, puppies, thinner, older, or shorter-coated dogs tend to get cold more quickly. Bear this in mind when planning how long they can spend outdoors during the cold months.

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Grateful for the Family

Grateful for the Family

Celebrating Thanksgiving at Longwood Veterinary Center Dr. Andrews holds rounds every Thursday morning. She calls these her morning “huddles” and we, like dutiful school children, line up to attend even though some mornings we want to get started on our day, make...

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Snap Photos, Spread Cheer

Snap Photos, Spread Cheer

Snap a photo, spread cheer! Enter Longwood Vet Center’s Holiday Pet Photo Contest for a chance to win a curated gift basket from the team at LVC. We can’t wait to see your festive furry friends! Submissions can be made until December 17th, and the winner will be announced on Facebook on December 18th!

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5 Important Reasons to Spay and Neuter Your Pets

5 Important Reasons to Spay and Neuter Your Pets

Longwood Veterinary Center Offers Spay and Neuter Services in Kennett Square, PA There are many reasons why spaying and neutering your pets is the responsible choice for pet owners to make. Our team at Longwood Veterinary Center wants to highlight five great reasons...

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Tribute to a Nurse from a Frightened Dog

Tribute to a Nurse from a Frightened Dog

I lie awake, afraid to sleep, From the fearful smells and high pitched beeps of the hospital room. My eyes try to focus, searching for peace. They fall upon you. You talk to me in a voice so kind, it soothes my soul and calms my mind.

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Start Things Off On The Right Paw

Start Things Off On The Right Paw

Puppy training has its challenges, but is oh so worth it. There’s nothing quite like raising a dog from puppyhood, bonding from the beginning, and taking a major role in shaping the habits you wish your puppy to learn early in life.

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Additions to Our Longwood Family

Additions to Our Longwood Family

Our Kennett Square Vet Clinic is Growing! Although 2020 has been a difficult year for all of us, there are some bright spots to note and news from our local vet clinic. For instance, there have been some wonderful additions to our Longwood family that have reminded us...

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Facts You Should Know About Your Pet’s Teeth

Facts You Should Know About Your Pet’s Teeth

We know you take your responsibility as a pet owner seriously. It’s important to ensure your pet has everything needed to be healthy, and that includes pet dental care. It’s important to factor this in for the wellbeing of your pet.

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Treating Senior Pets Kennett Square

Treating Senior Pets Kennett Square

Although we treat pets as our job, advising our clients on how best to treat any manner of medical conditions ranging from diabetes to seizures, we also have first hand experience managing our own pet’s health.

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Could Your Pet Benefit from Acupuncture?

Could Your Pet Benefit from Acupuncture?

Acupuncture for Dogs What is acupuncture? Commonly associated with traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture involves the insertion of thin needles through the skin into strategic points on the body to treat pain, specific disease conditions and help the body recover...

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Longwood Vet– A Cat Friendly Practice

Longwood Vet– A Cat Friendly Practice

If you’re a cat owner and had to take your cat to the vet for check ups, vaccinations, or other treatment, the experience may have been a bit stressful for both of you. Going to the vet shouldn’t be a hassle or a traumatic experience. That’s why the Cat Friendly...

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Dogs and Cats Can Help Reduce Stress

Dogs and Cats Can Help Reduce Stress

There are many things we can do to reduce stress, and one of them is–you guessed it– having a pet. The benefits of having a pet are incredible. Not only does having a dog or cat enrich life from the standpoint of companionship, but also, studies show that dogs can help reduce stress in their human counterparts.

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How We’re Doing

How We’re Doing

Staff at Longwood Veterinary Center is Caring for Pets During COVID-19 Exceptional Veterinary Care As always, our staff here at Longwood Veterinary Center is committed to providing exceptional care for your pets.

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Pets & COVID-19: What We Know So Far

Pets & COVID-19: What We Know So Far

Two cases of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been confirmed in pet cats by the CDC, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and National Veterinary Services Labratories (NVSL).

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Finding Refuge with Our Pets

Finding Refuge with Our Pets

COVID-19, Social Distancing, and Quality Time With Your Pets I wish I was one of those people who could “rise above” in any occasion. One of those people who sees the good in everything, remains focused, optimistic, who does not worry.

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Home with Your Pets

Home with Your Pets

Make the Most of Social Distancing with Quality Time with Your Pets There’s a new normal in town. COVID-19 has stormed in, and flipped our “normal” on its head. It has left many of us working remotely from home offices. It has left many of us homeschooling our...

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Puppy Training During Social Isolation

Puppy Training During Social Isolation

Don't Let COVID-19 or Social Distancing Derail your Puppy Training Efforts Need help training your new puppy? Unfortunately, social distancing required by the COVID-19 crisis has led to the cancellation of all in-person puppy training classes and private lessons. But...

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Telemedicine at Longwood Veterinary Center

Telemedicine at Longwood Veterinary Center

Veterinarians Offer Virtual Pet Appointments During Coronavirus Pandemic We are all facing unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, one thing is certain, pets are important members of our families, and the need to keep them healthy and safe...

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Guidance in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Guidance in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Department of Agriculture Offers Advice for Pet Owners Amid COVID-19 Restrictions In the light of COVID-19 mitigation, it's important to be prepared as a responsible pet owner for anything that may happen. Pennsylvania pet owners have been offered the following...

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR LONGWOOD FAMILY REGARDING COVID-19 AND CHESTER COUNTY

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR LONGWOOD FAMILY REGARDING COVID-19 AND CHESTER COUNTY

As you are well aware, Governor Tom Wolf has expanded COVID-19 mitigation efforts to Chester County. Governor Tom Wolf issued a statement on March 19th requiring all non life-sustaining businesses to close immediately. Veterinary hospitals are considered life-sustaining businesses and, for now, are permitted to remain open so that we may continue to care for your beloved pets.  

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Oscar– the Labrador with So Much Life

Oscar– the Labrador with So Much Life

If you are Dr. Strine’s dog, Oscar, you know her family’s steadfast love and devotion to him goes well beyond stereotypical displays during a Hallmark holiday. He’s as much a rescue dog as can be. And so our story begins. Oscar was just another routine puppy patient nearly 13 years ago. He was an energetic and funny Labrador with poor manners and a huge personality that made it easy to forgive him for his “naughtiness.”

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2019 Pet Pictures with Santa

2019 Pet Pictures with Santa

Join us for photos with Santa, cookies, coffee, and hot cocoa, and bring a canned food item donation for the Kennett Food Cupboard.

Thursday, December 12th / 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

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LVC is Grateful for Our Pets This Holiday Season

LVC is Grateful for Our Pets This Holiday Season

Man's Best Friend– Pets Bring Joy to Our Lives Why We're Grateful for Our Pets I asked our nurses to contribute to the blog you are reading today. My question for them was this, “What makes you grateful for your pets?” I believe Andrea put it best when she simply said...

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The Dog Who Lived– A Very Special Rescue Dog

The Dog Who Lived– A Very Special Rescue Dog

The practice of medicine is part science, part art, part miracle. As veterinarians, an injured or sick pet can test our emotional strength, strain our hearts, and cause us to question if we are doing the right thing. Some patients recover immediately, some take...

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Featured Employees

Featured Employees

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) With great sadness, we will be saying goodbye to two beloved LVC employees. Dawn has been with Longwood Veterinary Center since we first opened in 1999. She will be...

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Longwood Vet has an Online Store!

Longwood Vet has an Online Store!

Shop for food, prescriptions, preventatives, and supplements (including CBD!) from the comfort of home! Sign up for the convenient Autoship option and delivery is free. Prefer to make a single large order? Shipping is free on any order of $49.00 or more! Our online...

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Memorial Day is for Canine Soldiers as well

Memorial Day is for Canine Soldiers as well

On Memorial Day we remember those soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and for us, the people of the United States. Only 0.4% of the U.S. population currently serves in the military. Looking back at everyone who has ever served, the number...

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Foreign Body

Foreign Body

Abdominal Obstruction Treatment Help! My dog swallowed his ball! Winston, an exuberant and happy 1-year-old “puppy”, is usually active and playful. He enjoys days spent tossing and chewing his favorite toys. Being a young dog, he has not outgrown his playfulness, and...

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LVC Offers the Convenience of Online Appointment Scheduling

LVC Offers the Convenience of Online Appointment Scheduling

Longwood Veterinary Center is proud to offer an updated online scheduling system. From our Pet Portal, you can update your client information, view important reminders, schedule preventative or medical progress exams, view and print vaccine, and rabies certificates,...

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New Product Spotlight: Revolution Plus

New Product Spotlight: Revolution Plus

Revolution Plus protects cats against fleas, ticks, heartworms, ear mites, and some intestinal parasites. This is the perfect product for all cats at the same cost as original Revolution.

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Winter has Come to LVC!

Winter has Come to LVC!

Dog owners regularly report that their dogs show affection, and unlike other non-primates, hounds seek out eye contact with humans. Plus, like children, dogs will often run to their owner when they’re startled — something other animals rarely do.

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Pet Dental Care: A Closer Look

Pet Dental Care: A Closer Look

While anesthetized, your pet’s gums and teeth are carefully examined. Gums are evaluated for signs of recession, redness or swelling, abscesses, masses, pocketing or other abnormalities.

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Love in is the Air– But So Are Mosquitos

Love in is the Air– But So Are Mosquitos

When a mosquito takes a blood meal from an infected animal, it ingests microfilaria (immature worms), which develop and mature into “infective stage” larvae over a period of 10 to 14 days while still inside the mosquito. When the infected mosquito bites another dog, cat, or susceptible wild animal, infective larvae are deposited onto the surface of the animal’s skin and enter the new host through the mosquito’s bite.

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Featured New Employee: Shirl

Featured New Employee: Shirl

How Long Have You Been a Vet Tech? 20 years! How Long Have You Been at LVC? Almost 3 months Do You Have any Higher Education- either in Veterinary Technology or Other? I have a degree in Veterinary Technology Are you an LVT or CVT? I am an R.V.T. Why did you decide to...

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7 Mistakes Dog Owners Often Make in Winter

7 Mistakes Dog Owners Often Make in Winter

Winter Dog Care BY KRISTEN SEYMOUR Even the most conscientious dog owners make the occasional mistake. And hey, that's no reason to beat yourself up! But it is a good incentive to make sure you're well aware of any seasonal mistakes you could be making when it comes...

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Hospital Renovations in 2019

Hospital Renovations in 2019

Longwood Veterinary Center is thankful for all of the wonderful patients and clients we have been serving for the past 20 years! Our practice continues to grow and because of this we are excited to announce a hospital renovation scheduled for January 2019. Changes...

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Coping with The Loss of Your Pet

Coping with The Loss of Your Pet

How to take care of yourself, your family, and other pets when you've had to say goodbye. How Do You Know When it is Time? Making the decision to euthanize a beloved pet is one of the most difficult you will be faced with in your pet’s lifetime. Some may argue, it is...

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