Thompson Veterinary Services

Good morning!

🚨PSA🚨

TVS will be CLOSED tomorrow (Wednesday) as Dr. Thompson will be out of office. See y'all on Thursday!

🚨🚨HIRING🚨🚨

We are back to seeking qualified technicians (either licensed or with at least 5 years experience) MUST have abilities with blood pulling, running labs, charting, anesthesia etc. We are only seeking experienced technician and are not needing receptionist or kennel help at this time.

Please submit your resume to [email protected] for further review. Please only submit if you have the following experience as advertised above.

Look forward to seeing who may join our team soon!

Jennie

Dr. T wanted me to post updated info for this "New World Screworm" making it's way to this area. Although he rarely works with large animals lately he would like the surrounding public to see the updates we are getting.

I will be attaching below what we were sent today from Rod Hall up in Oklahoma.

I would like to update everyone on the status of New World Screwworm in the United States. The second attachment is a screen shot from the USDA website screwworm.gov . It shows the infested zones and adjacent surveillance zones in Texas and New Mexico and lists the number of cases in each zone.



I’ve also attached a document with pesticides and medications that can be used to treat and prevent NWS. The third attachment is our most current NWS fact sheet.



The situation is very fluid in Texas, and we are working to stay up to date. We are reviewing our interstate import requirements and are adjusting them to allow commerce to continue but at the same time to try to protect Oklahoma from NWS.



Please urge your clients, stakeholders, and constituents to be aware and monitor their animals (even companion animals) for wounds and fly larvae. If they find wounds, they should be treated immediately and properly to help them heal quickly and to prevent NWS flies from laying eggs near the edge of the wound. Please ask them to report suspicious cases of fly larvae and submit them quickly.



Veterinarians may submit to OADDL in the same way samples for other testing are submitted. If they use the shipping labels that can be printed from OADDL’s website, ODAFF will pay for the shipping and the identification.



Producers and the public may also utilize County OSU Extension offices. They have submission kits and will collect information about the case and submit samples to the Plant Disease and Insect Diagnostic Lab at OSU.



This QR code opens a self-reporting tool that allows anyone to report suspicious cases. There is an interactive map that allows them to show where the sample was collected. They may also attach photos from their phone’s camera. The information comes directly to my office, and we will contact them to help collect and submit samples.


We’ve been discussing this for over a year, and until now our message has been to be aware, but don’t panic. I still don’t want people to panic, but it is time to really ramp up surveillance. If the fly makes its way to Oklahoma, the sooner we find it, the better chance we have to stop it.



Thanks for your assistance, and contact me with questions.



Rod



Rod Hall, DVM | State Veterinarian

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry

2800 N. Lincoln Blvd. OKC, OK 73105

405.522.0270 | c. 580.257.0254

[email protected]

www.ag.ok.gov/ais

For Interstate Movement Requirements go to https://www.interstatelivestock.com/

Screwworm.gov | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Learn how the U.S. Government prevents New World screwworm and what to know about risks, surveillance, sterile-fly control, travel, and more.

Good morning!

A friendly reminder we will be CLOSED tomorrow 5/25 for Memorial Day.

Our office will reopen on Tuesday, 5/26

🚨Low Cost cat neuter day🚨

MAY 20TH Call to get put on schedule 817-404-9222

Looking for a part-time registered tech or a tech with ALL of the experience, not just kennel experience. Please do not send resumes with past reception or kennel experience. We are only seeking qualified tech for part time.

Please email resumes to [email protected]

Thank you!
Jennie😊

Good morning!
PSA to our clients or one's wanting to become clients as to our scheduling and fees moving forward.

We are an APPOINTMENT ONLY based clinic. We have ONE veterinarian and he can only be spread so thin. We are a small practice currently busting at the seams due to an overwhelming increase in new clients/pets. We may not be far from stepping back from accepting new clients if this persists.

PLEASE be patient with us and understand there may be days/weeks where we cannot get you in and have to refer. We absolutely hate having to turn away clients, especially long term clients who have been with us for many years.

Understand that if you choose to show up anyways knowing we do not have availability and we have to "work you in" through other appointments there is an automatic exam fee of $150. NO EXEPTIONS, plus whatever treatment costs are and those are expected to be paid in full at time of service. WE DO NOT TAKE PAYMENT PLANS.

If you do not show up for an appointment or do not give us a 24hr notice on needing to cancel/reschedule it's an automatic $25 fee added to acct. If the appointment is for two animals there will be a $50 fee since that appointment would be scheduled for an hour.

If you no show or call late to reschedule for a surgery that is an automatic $50 fee added to acct. We absolutely understand things come up. Leave us a voicemail the day before if after hours if you do not want to incure a fee. This has been our policy for the last 4 years. It's not an issue if needing to cancel, just please do it ahead of time if you do not want a fee added to account.

Thank you all for understanding. Noticing an uptick in walk-in appointments and needed to address this to help cut down on those. Please be mindful that we are already stretched and just showing up just adds to it and disrupts the appointments others took the time to make ahead of time.

Thank you!
Jennie Carter, Office Manager-TVS