Small Animal Veterinary Services
Palmer Veterinary Clinic offers a wide range of veterinary services for your small animal companion in the following areas:
Annual Wellness and Vaccination Programs
Your pet’s health is our top priority! Nobody knows your pet better than you; help us get to know your furry friend just as well. Annual wellness exams are recommended for all our patients and are the best way to identify, track, and treat your pet’s health needs. We offer a variety of canine and feline vaccines to suit the lifestyle of you and your pet, while addressing the endemic needs of the North Country. In conjunction with preventative blood work screenings, we will build an accurate picture of your healthy pet.
Emergency Services
In November 2025 we’re updating how after-hours care is provided at Palmer Veterinary Clinic. This is a significant change from our previous 24/7 availability, and we want to ensure you understand exactly how we’ll continue to support your pets when they need us most.
We will continue to provide the same level of emergency and urgent care for small animals until 10:00 PM Monday through Friday, until 7:00 PM on Saturdays, and from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM on Sundays. Large animal emergency services will still be available 24/7.
Outside of those hours, our after-hours triage service will be available to assist you. Staffed by licensed veterinary technicians, this service can provide guidance, help determine the urgency of your pet’s situation, and schedule next-business-day appointments so you can rest assured your pet will be promptly seen. If your pet is experiencing a true emergency after our cutoff times, the triage team will direct you to Burlington Emergency Veterinary Specialists (BEVS) at (802) 863-2367 for immediate care.
We know this change is bittersweet, but it helps us continue to provide the high-quality care your pets deserve while ensuring our doctors get the rest they need to stay healthy and focused.
To summarize what this means:
Our veterinarians are on-call and available:
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Monday–Friday: until 10:00 PM
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Saturday: until 7:00 PM
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Sunday: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Our veterinarians will not be available for in-person small animal visits overnight, between:
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10:00 PM – 7:00 AM (Monday–Friday)
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7:00 PM – 7:00 AM (Saturday into Sunday, and Sunday into Monday)
Important Reminders
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Emergency services are available only for established clients that we’ve seen within the past 18 months
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We are unable to treat wildlife, strays, or feral cats
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In true emergency situations during our open after-hours, an emergency fee of $50 will apply prior to the veterinarian being paged by the triage service. If your pet needs to be seen, this fee will be applied to your visit – whether it’s right away or next business day.
In House Diagnostic Laboratory
If only they could speak! We rely on our in house chemistry machines to tell us things you or your pet may not be able to, whether it’s a preventative wellness screening, anesthetic risk profiling, urinalysis, or disease identification, we will have timely results from our in house diagnostic lab.
Our doctors and technicians are adept at microscopy and also perform skin scrapes, ear and skin cytology, fine needle aspirates, and parasite screenings.
If we can’t do it here, we work with multiple outside laboratories to get answers for you and your pet. IDEXX, Cornell University, and University of Minnesota just to name a few.
Surgery
We offer traditional scalpel as well as surgical laser options when applicable. Our team of veterinarians, licensed technicians, and assistants will be with our patients through every step of their procedure: from pre-anesthetic risk profiling, to tailoring patient specific anesthetic procedures, to monitoring vital organ function, and patient recovery. Our heated surgery tables and Bair Hugger warmer will be with your pet, too, keeping them warm all along the way!
Post-Operatively we will schedule you a discharge appointment to meet with a veterinary technician and discuss at home care. Please feel free to call us with any questions during your pet’s recovery. It’s what we’re here for!
Our doctors are proficient in the following soft tissue and orthopedic procedures:
- Routine Spay and Neuter
- Pyometra Spay
- Cryptorchid Neuter
- Dentistry
- Abdominal Exploration (Foreign Body Excision)
- Mass Removal
- Gastropexy
- Splenectomy
- Cystotomy
- Enucleation
- Cherry Eye Repair
- Hernia Repair
- Perianal Urethrostomy
- ACL Repair – Securos Method
- Amputation
Dentistry
Dental cleanings are an important part of the body of care your pet needs. We perform scaling, polishing, and extractions under general anesthesia complete with digital dental radiographs to get a full picture of your pets dental health above and below the gum line. Join us in February for Dental Month to save on dental procedures.
Puppy and Kitten Vaccination Series
Give the newest member of your family a good start! Puppies and kittens with no vaccination history should start a series of shots around 12 weeks of age. This series of vaccines will give us the opportunity to address your needs as you learn and grow with your new pet, and have them up-to-date when the time comes for spaying or neutering should you choose.
