Preventative care is essential to maintaining your pet’s good health for as long as possible. At Animal Ark Animal Hospital, we constantly emphasize the importance of routine preventative exams, blood work, cat and dog vaccinations, and balanced nutrition because it’s the best way to keep illness at bay and prolong your companion’s life. Our family-oriented veterinarians in Franklin, TN are extremely thorough during wellness appointments, examining your pet from nose to tail and running comprehensive blood and parasite screens to check for issues. We also provide vaccines tailored specifically to your pet’s health needs and lifestyle. Our team is highly responsive to your concerns and respectful of your circumstances.
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The goal of annual/bi-annual preventative pet exams is to make sure your pet is staying healthy and catch any subtle, underlying signs of potential illness as soon as possible. The sooner we detect a problem, the sooner we can treat it and prevent harmful symptoms and lasting effects. At Animal Ark Animal Hospital, we recommend seeing otherwise healthy adult pets at least once a year for their exam. Senior dogs and cats, aged 7 and up, and large dog breeds aged 5 and up should see us at least twice a year (or bi-annually) for an exam and bloodwork.
For dogs, we recommend the following core (essential) vaccines:
Our lifestyle-based (non-core) vaccines for dogs include:
While not set in stone, this is the vaccine timeline we highly recommend for puppies (includes core and non-core vaccines):
Note: We advocate the 3-year DHPP and Rabies product vaccines every 3 years after the puppy series, and often stop at year 7.
Animal Ark Animal Hospital uses only the Purevax brand vaccines for all cats. Purevax vaccines have no potentially harmful additives to boost the immune system of cats thereby decreasing the chances of injection site reactions. Overall, Purevax provides the safest means of protecting your cat against infectious diseases.
Our core vaccines for cats include:
There is one non-core vaccine for cats:
For kittens, we recommend the following vaccination timeline for optimal protection:
Vaccine titers can play a role in determining your pet’s level of immunity against certain illnesses by measuring antibodies, but they cannot improve immunity. We can offer a titer test if requested, but we still advocate for vaccinations, as titers can be misleading regarding protective immunity.
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We’re not a chain. We’re not a corporation. We’re your neighbors, your friends—your hometown veterinary team. At our locally owned and operated clinic, every pet is family, and every decision we make is rooted in compassion, not corporate policies.
