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We are excited to announce to our clients that we will have an acupuncturist, Dr. Julie Hsu, starting January 2024!

Please check out our Staff page where you can find her bio! We are delighted to have Dr. Julie Hsu as a member of the MercyVet Team!



Beginning Friday, October 13th 2023 MercyVet will be changing hours of operation. Due to staffing changes we are shortening our Friday hours. We apologize for any inconveniences ’s this may bring to our amazing clients and patients, and ask to be understanding during this change.

Monday - Thursday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Friday: 9:00AM - 4PM

Saturday - Sunday: Closed


10/30/2022

MercyVet has relocated a couple blocks away on the business level of the 77 Central Apartments! We are now directly across the street from Walgreens, next to Impact Fitness.

The parking garage can be entered on 77th Ave SE. Drive straight and follow the natural curve to the right, continue straight ahead towards the signage for MercyVet’s reserved parking. Walk to the right and pass through the small paved courtyard. We will be located on the left.

Our new address is:

2630 77th Ave. SE #116 Mercer Island, WA 98040.



03/03/2022

 

Attention MercyVet Customers,

Due to increased costs of living and their impact on our ability to hire and retain an excellent staff in service to your pets, we must raise our consultation fee. This will happen on March 7th.

We trust in your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.


01/28/2020 It is with sadness we must announce the death of our precious Olive who passed away peacefully on Wednesday. We will miss her more than words can say.

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Help us PROTECT homeopathy

The FDA is proposing to reclassify all homeopathic medicines. This would allow them to treat all homeopathic medicines as technically illegal, and withdraw any or all of them at any time. Our friends at Americans for Homeopathy Choice submitted a petition to the FDA urging them to reconsider this classification. 

Now, we need your help. We’re submitting comments to the FDA in support of the petition. When you leave a comment through the AFHC website, it goes directly to the FDA, as well as members of Congress and other lawmakers. Our goal is 100,000 comments.

Leave your comment at: https://homeopathychoice.org/fdacomment/



Demonstration Video for Checking Your Pet’s Blood Glucose at Home

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6tkpjgDOE

and link to ordering supplies for home monitoring of your pet’s blood glucose

https://www.chewy.com/alphatrak-2-blood-glucose-monitoring/dp/173362

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August 7, 2019.

MERCYVET’S POSITION ON THE CURRENT CONTROVERSY ABOUT DOG KIBBLES AND B.E.G. DIETS

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 Last year, cardiologists around the country started observing unexpected cases of Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dog breeds that historically had not been known to develop this serious condition. Not all cases were alike, but most dogs improved upon dietary change and taurine supplementation. The most frequent commonality between cases were the presence of legumes in the kibble.

Once the word got out, a team of investigators and the FDA started looking into this issue, and in December, the Journal of American Veterinary Medicine (JAVMA), a highly reputable publication, issued an op-ed implicating B.E.G. diets (boutique, exotic and grain free) and lack of taurine as most likely culprits.

The article has been downloaded thousands of times, and many worried pet owners and veterinarians are struggling to choose and recommend safe formulations. Often the knee jerk response is to go back to poor quality, grain laden kibbles. Here at MercyVet, we have looked for answers and spoken to our cardiologists to try to come up with a commonsense response. Then we found out that the original article in JAVMA was not peer reviewed, has critical flaws and was written by 3 researchers working for the big manufacturers that heavily rely on grains, a previously undisclosed huge conflict of interest.

Such shortcomings doom this report in any professional field. The real lesson we have learned is that we cannot trust anyone! The pet food industry, the manufacturers, AAFCO (who requires no feeding trials) even the FDA which is refusing to release critical information about their research. As veterinarians, the AVMA has advised us to not promote raw foods – based on research provided by the very same vet who wrote this December article.

Our cardiologists tell us there is something underlying these new cases, so here’s the advice you’ve been waiting for:

                Avoid using food from the same company all the time; varying type of food prevents excesses and deficiencies from occurring

                Use fresh foods, frozen, freeze dried. Synthetic nutrients are not the same as natural ones.

                Supplement your dog’s diet with fresh ingredients; discuss specific supplements with your vet as dogs are individuals and certain disease patterns affect their needs

                Keep track of weight. If underfed, the dog may not be getting some critical amino acids – methionine and cysteine – from which the dog synthesizes taurine.

                Visit your vet annually, or if there are signs of illness or changes in energy level, appetite, or engagement.

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