FRHôpital Vétérinaire Métro Iberville · Guides for pet owners
What brings you here today?
Understand your pet's health and care for them well at home. Clear resources, prepared by our veterinary team: search, or follow your intent.
The libraries
Three libraries, one goal
Symptoms and triage
Symptoms: what to do
Your pet is vomiting, limping, or off their food? Honest triage: watch at home, book a visit, or go now.
Explore the libraryHome care
How-to home care
How to give a medication, change a bandage, collect a sample, feed a fragile pet, or respond in an emergency.
Explore the libraryClinical reference
Conditions and diseases
The most common conditions: causes, diagnosis, treatment, and home management, by species and body system.
Explore the libraryWorth a read
To learn from and decide with
Guides to read at your own pace.
Giving oral medication
Tablet, capsule, or syrup, dog and cat
Home careCollecting a stool sample
How to collect, store, and bring it in
PreventionSpaying and neutering
Benefits, age, surgery, and follow-up
Home carePost-operative care
Wound, rest, medication, warning signs
NutritionRaw food diets and their risks
Raw meat-based diets: what to know
SupportEnd of life and euthanasia
The decision, what to expect, grief
Budget and decisionsPet insurance in Quebec
Pre-existing, claims, refusals, insure or save
SupportAfter a cancer diagnosis
Dog and cat: the workup, the referral, the questions to bring
SupportPalliative care at home
Dog and cat: comfort, daily care, the crisis plan
Next stepsMy dog or cat bit someone
811, the 10-day observation, 311 in Montreal
SupportAdopting a shelter or rescue pet
Dogs and cats: before you say yes, and the first weeks
PreventionRabies around Montreal
Bats, raccoons, the vaccine: keeping your dog and cat protected
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