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What to Expect

Pacific Pet Nurses are happy to offer at home services for your beloved pets! 
Performing treatments in the comfort of the patients home, or in our Fear Free friendly mobile unit; wherever the patient feels most comfortable!

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Below you'll find details on how typical services are preformed, and tips and tricks we've learned over our careers to help appointments go smoothly! 

Preparing for PPN arrival

We are happy to text or call prior to our arrival, or even let ourselves in to find you and your pet where they feel most relaxed.

Some pets can be more stressed in the home or with their owners present; in these cases we find that moving the patient to the PPN mobile unit or into an isolated space like a bathroom can decrease the patient's anxiety.

If your pet typically receives sedation prior to their regular vet appointments, please discuss sedation protocol with your DVM for your pets in-home appointment.​

Nervous Kitty Appointments

We typically recommend capturing your kitty and placing into a small room like a bathroom immediately prior to PPN arrival. With our nervous feline friends, we find that removing the capture process and any escape routes greatly reduces patient stress.

Some kitties appreciate a "if you can't see it, it's not happening" technique, we then utilize a Feliway sprayed towel to cover the patient to help keep them calm for the duration of the service. 

Each kitty is unique and it may take a couple appointments to find the least stressful routine to complete your kitty's appointments.  

Blood Pressure Appointments

Typically the patient feels most comfortable with the owner helping for these appointments. We recommend having the patient in a calm comfortable location (their favorite bed, your lap, etc.) for this procedure. With kitties we find it is helpful for them to be in this calm location with their owner prior to our arrival, and we can enter the home without knocking or ringing the doorbell. We have found that most of our feline patients prefer the owner doing the hold/restraint for this procedure.

There is a small percentage of patients that are more stressed in home or with their owners present; in these cases we find that moving the patient to the PPN mobile unit or into an isolated space like a bathroom can decrease the patient's anxiety. 

If your pet typically receives sedation prior to their regular vet appointments, please discuss sedation protocol with your DVM for your pets in-home appointment.

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This procedure involves shaving a small spot on your pet for probe placement, placing a cuff and listening to the arterial flow. PPN techs wear headphones during this process to lessen "scary" noises to our patients. We also ask that cell phones and Wi-Fi routers are 4-5 feet away during these appointments to reduce electrical interference. 

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