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Wellness Care and Exams

Keep your pet healthy with routine wellness exams, early detection, and personalized care plans.

Wellness Care and Exams: Building a Healthier Life for Your Pet

Routine wellness exams are the foundation of lifelong health for your pet. Even if your dog or cat seems perfectly healthy, regular checkups help catch early signs of illness, keep vaccines and preventatives up to date, and give you peace of mind. Think of it as your pet’s version of an annual physical—essential, personalized, and focused on prevention.

Why Are Wellness Exams Important?

Pets age much faster than humans, and health changes can happen quickly, often without obvious symptoms. Wellness visits allow your veterinarian to:

  • Track your pet’s health over time

  • Detect conditions like dental disease, arthritis, or weight gain early

  • Stay ahead of parasites, heartworm, or preventable illness

  • Provide guidance on nutrition, behavior, and lifestyle

These visits also build trust between your pet and their care team, making future visits less stressful.

What’s Included in a Wellness Visit?

Each wellness exam is tailored to your pet’s age, breed, and lifestyle, but generally includes:

  • Head-to-toe physical exam: Eyes, ears, teeth, skin, heart, lungs, joints, and more

  • Weight and body condition check

  • Heartworm and parasite screening (available for an additional cost)

  • Vaccination review and updates

  • Dental health assessment

  • Discussion of nutrition, exercise, and home habits

  • Bloodwork or diagnostics (especially for senior pets or when baseline health info is needed)

Whether it’s a playful puppy or a wise senior, every pet benefits from a consistent wellness plan.

How Often Should My Pet Get an Exam?

  • Puppies and kittens need several visits in their first year for vaccines and development monitoring.

  • Adult pets (1–7 years) should have a checkup bi-annually.

  • Senior pets (7+ years) often benefit from exams every 6 months due to faster health changes.

We’ll help build a schedule that matches your pet’s needs and keeps you informed every step of the way.

Wellness care isn’t just about treating illness—it’s about staying ahead of it. Regular exams help ensure your pet enjoys a long, comfortable, and healthy life by your side.

🐾 Looking to keep your pet healthy and happy? Visit us—we’re here to support every step of the way. Book your appointment today.

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Animal Medical Center of Tyler FAQs

There is no question too big or too small for our veterinary team.

Cash, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover. Animal Medical Center of Tyler also accepts Care Credit, Scratchpay and Pet Insurance Plans. Read more about our payment options.

No, there is no advantage to letting your pet have one litter and Animal Medical Center of Tyler advises against it. However, there are plenty of advantages to having your pet spayed or neutered. These advantages include decreasing the chances of breast tumors later in life, decreasing the chance of cystic ovaries and uterine infections later in life, decreasing the desire to roam the neighborhood, decreasing the incidence of prostate cancer later in life, helping prevent spraying and marking, and also decreases the surplus of unwanted puppies and kittens.

Some sutures are placed are under the skin and dissolve over time and do not need to be removed. In other instances, skin sutures would need to be removed after 10-14 days at Animal Medical Center of Tyler, depending on the procedure.

This is a blood test that is run here in the clinic of Animal Medical Center of Tyler prior to surgery. It tests the internal organ functions as well as the blood counts of your pet. The pre-anesthetic blood screening is done to assure safety during surgery and to lessen the risk of postoperative complications.

Spaying or neutering can be done at approximately 6 months of age here at Animal Medical Center of Tyler. Your pet is examined and a pre-anesthetic blood screen is completed prior to anesthesia. We believe in taking every precaution to make anesthesia and surgery as safe as it can possibly be!

Yes, patients are seen by appointment. Animal Medical Center of Tyler tries to accommodate walk-ins as we can. If we cannot accommodate you at the time you walk in, convenient drop-off appointments are available at no additional charge. Call us at (903) 617-6891 to schedule or book an appointment online.