Preventive Care

• Dental Care
  We offer a full array of pet services from pet exams and preventative care, to urgent care and hospitalization, to surgery and dental care.
• Vaccination
  Every pet, despite his/her age, gender, health status, vaccination status, species or breed, should have a preventative exam with a veterinarian at least once a year*
• Veterinary Ophthalmology
  Dr. Casey’s special interests include avian and exotic pets alongside dogs and cats; surgery, dental care, and ophthalmology; lifelong preventative care for beloved family pets!
• Nutritional Counseling
• Comprehensive Examination
  *Some service require a physical examination at the time of service regardless of past exam history. Some patients may need more frequent exams and/or labwork to provide certain services or ongoing medications.

Illness Treatment

• Parasites Treatment and Control
  While most information on preventative veterinary healthcare refers to dogs and cats only, our exotic pet friends need regular exams and care too. An annual physical exam is advised for all species. Most of them do not need vaccinations, and some are difficult or risky to safely acquire adequate blood samples for diagnostic testing. But all species can be impacted by intestinal parasites, so routine fecal testing is advised. And discussing their husbandry (housing, diet, lighting, etc.) is a good way to ensure you are providing the best environment for their continued health and comfort.
• Pain Management
  This voluntary accreditation evaluates us on a series of industry benchmarks for excellence, and means we hold ourselves, our medicine and our service to a higher standard, especially in the areas of patient care, pain management, and customer service.
• Vomiting Treatment
• Diarrhea Treatment
• Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment
  Our veterinary staff has the experience and resources to treat any number of emergency conditions and injuries here in or office, providing the prompt care your pet needs in dire situations. Allergic reactions, for example, are a common medical condition we treat in our office; prompt treatment is important here because allergic reactions can quickly become life-threatening. Other emergency and urgent conditions we have treated in our office include...
• Upper Respiratory Illness Treatment

Infection Treatment

• Parvovirus Infection Treatment
  Vaccinations (also known as immunizations, inoculations, or “shots”) are crucial to prevention of communicable, preventable, and often fatal or debilitating diseases like rabies, distemper, parvovirus, Lyme disease, communicable hepatitis, herpes and respiratory viruses. Many are given every 1-3 years, are minimal cost and provide excellent prevention for against these devastating diseases. We believe that lifelong vaccination against core and lifestyle dependent exposures is important for all dogs, cats, ferrets and some exotics.
• Ear Infection Treatment
• Anal Gland Infection Treatment
  Medical Grooming – nail trimming, ear cleaning, hair removal, baths, beak manicures, wing trimming, and anal gland expression

Chronic Condition Treatment

• Heart Disease Treatment
  Computerized EKG – An electrocardiogram, also called an EKG or ECG, is a set of readings that measure the electrical activity in an animal’s heart. Electrodes attached to your pet pick up data that is recorded in graph form so our vet team can identify cardiac conditions or abnormalities. Our computerized EKG system can upload this data to computers or other data devices for instant access and sharing.
• Periodontal Disease Treatment
  Did you know that 7 out of 10 pets over the age of 3 have significant dental disease? Did you know that with routine dental care, many of these could be prevented? We all know that regular visits to our dentists are important. Our pets can experience the same problems with tooth decay, gingivitis, bad breath, periodontal disease and resulting pain that we can experience. Proper preventative care (toothbrushing, chews and diet) and regular cleanings can prevent many of these conditions and keep your pet’s mouth healthy for their whole life.

Emergency Care

• Wound and Fracture Care
  Dr. Torfin’s special interests include wound management and critical care. When she isn’t saving pet lives, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their dogs, reading, and traveling. She’s climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro!
• Poisoning Treatment

Surgery

• Dental Surgery
  A team will be with your pet through the anesthesia and dental procedure. Your pet’s veterinarian oversees the procedure and performs any extractions or oral surgery required, and assesses all the dental radiographs. A certified veterinary technician administers anesthesia, cleans and polishes the teeth and takes mouth radiographs. An additional veterinary technician or highly trained technician assistant monitors your pet’s vitals and reports to the veterinarian and veterinary technician throughout the procedure to ensure your pet’s safety. This team will remain with your pet until he/she is recovered from anesthesia.
• Veterinary Surgery
  Even if you’ve had a pet have surgery before, you may not know exactly what went on that day. If this is an elective procedure, your pet’s surgical procedure has been planned for ahead of time. We ran labwork, maybe did some x-rays to evaluate their readiness for anesthesia. You scheduled a day to bring them in and leave them in our care. Hopefully you set up a intake appointment to go over consent forms and treatments plans at the beginning of the day. If it was not a planned procedure than labwork will be run in the hospital STAT and then reviewed by the doctor to ensure that surgery and anesthesia are as safe as possible for your pet at this time as possible.
• Laser Surgery
  Como Park Animal Hospital and Laser Surgery Center opened its doors in 1982, as the product of Dr. David Wetherill’s vision and dedication to excellence in veterinary medicine. The hospital got its name as a tribute to his St. Paul roots.
• Spaying and Neutering

Lab and X-Rays

• Laboratory Services
  Como Park Animal Hospital provides several advanced in-house diagnostic services to help us help your pet. These in-house diagnostics include...
• X-Ray

General Pet Care

• Boarding
  Leaving town for work, a vacation or any other purpose raises concerns about your pets. When you need boarding in Roseville MN, consider finding a team of experienced professionals who understand the needs of your pets. Pet boarding services at Como Park Animal Hospital 24 Hour Care allow you to travel without worrying about the safety and health of your pets.
• Grooming
  If pet owners make arrangements before boarding at our clinic, then we provide grooming services and wellness exams during a pet’s stay in our boarding facility. We do require some advanced notice when your pet needs an exam, medical services or grooming services, but our team does offer treatments during pet boarding.

Specialty

• Reptile Vet
  “ Wonderful, hands on and genuine about the care and comfort for my animal. It’s hard to find a great reptile vet when there are only so few who’s expertise is in exotics. This was my second vet for my bearded dragon and he was absolutely amazing with her. He knew his stuff and obviously had experience with these animals.