Welcome.
Hopefully what keeps people coming back to the FoxNest Veterinary Hospital are our compassionate efforts to help keep your pet healthy, our veterinary skills, our integrity, our personable service and our moderate fees.
And now we are trying ... with our web sites to also offer information.
Learn all about the services we offer, our prices and fees for things, how we treat different problems, and lots more on this site.
On our companion web site at The AnimalPetDoctor, learn all about how I treat different diseases, what to expect when your pet is sick, my comments about nutrition, and a host of other pet topics to include lots of interesting stuff about veterinary history.
And on our site about our No Kill Pet Shelter, we have information about what we do, about the pets needing homes, stories, letters, and my comments about the Human - Animal Bond. Please visit.
A Little About Each of our Services:
1. Preventive Medicine for Pets:
We offer Wellness Exams: A close look at eyes, ears, skin, throat, genitals, gums and teeth. Palpation of lymph nodes, spine, neck, abdomen, and joints. A good history and discussion of habits, diet, weight, odor, appearance, behavior, and quality of life.
We offer free Midyear wellness exams: This allows us to get to know our patients betters, and check for teeth, ear, eye, and skin problems. This lets us give superior vaccine and deworming protection, trim nails, clean out glands, and deal with any other concerns you might have. Remember that pets age about 7 times faster than we humans, so that checking your pet out once a year is like waiting 7 years for humans.
Vaccinations and Deworming: Vaccinations are critical to your pet's health. We have several deaths a month at our clinic due to diseases easily prevented by vaccines.
Vaccine quality, safety, and intervals are important and we use the best quality vaccines available and don't automatically give every vaccine available; we discuss with you which vaccines are appropriate for your pet's age and life style.
Good Nutrition: We recommend and sell premium diets as well as therapeutic diets used to treat skin diseases, digestive disorders, kidney disease, lower urinary tract problems, obesity, liver disease, heart disease, and pancreatitis.
2. Diagnostic Testing: We have a fantasitic range of accurate tests available in medicine these days (I was, among other things, a lab tech in the Army 25 years ago and you wouldn't believe how inaccurate and complicated testing was compared to today.) And what we don't have available real time at the hospital we can get done, overnight if needed, through any of several referral labs, the Clemson Diagnostic Lab, or the local human hospitals. Here's what we do at our hospital on a frequent basis:
Microscopic smears, stains, and cytology preps for feces, ear wax, blood,
skin, & tumors.
Complete Blood Counts, Chemistry Panels, and Electrolytes.
Testing for Heartworms, Parvo, Leukemia, Feline Aids, K9 Brucellosis,
Lymes Disease, and Erlichia.
Cultures for bacteria, ringworm, and yeast.
Urine chemistry, pH, specific gravity, and microscopic evaluation
Radiology: We have a fantastic new digital X Ray machine suitable for the diagnosis of fractures, masses, cardiac evaluation, hernias, and intestinal foreign bodies.
3. Treatment of Injuries:
Pets get into lots of trouble requiring attention. We do this part of the job really well. We are all set up for the treatment of wounds, shootings, minor fractures, poisonings, bloat, car accidents, C Sections, rotten abscessed teeth, bee stings, burns, heat stroke, and on and on.
4. Care of Medical Conditions:
We are well experienced at treating skin problems, allergies, metabolic diseases like diabetes, and everyday type problems like diarrhea, constipation, ear infections, and colds. If you have a sick pet, we will tell you what we think is wrong and give you several options about how to proceed. Many times, we are able to keep the case simple, inexpensive, and quickly resolved. Click here for more information about the reatment of injuries and illness
5. Surgery
We do 10-15 surgeries a day at our busy hospital ranging from simple wound repair to C sections to major cancer cases. For those surgeries that we don't have a lot of experience with or for complicated orthopedic cases, heart and lung surgery, or neural surgery ... we will refer you to the veterinary college in Athens or the surgical specialists in Greenville.
6. Dentistry
Dental health is a major part of over all health and we are all set up to clean, polish, treat, and seal your pets teeth when needed. We can extract abscessed teeth as well as do gum surgery. We also have the new vaccine for gum disease in dogs.
7. Pet ID to include Microchips
8. Boarding for Cats and Dogs
We do our best to pamper your pets when you're away. We have a cute little building just for cats (Miss Kitty's Bed and Breakfast) and a nice building with indoor-outdoor runs for dogs (The Dogwood Inn and Camp)...both of which are air conditioned and heated and come with lots of hands on attention.
9. Grooming
This is one of the hardest and least appreciated jobs at The FoxNest. But Sarah, our head groomer does a great job of making people happy. She's as gentle as can be, and it amazes me how most pets will stand and allow her to clip and snip for an hour.
10. Funeral Services: Please go to our Funeral Page for more information about what we have to offer if your pet is near the end of it's life, terminally ill or injured, or dies.
11. EMERGENCY Services
If you have a badly injured or sick pet during office hours, try to phone first to make sure I'm not out on a housecall or running errands. It also helps us to get ready. The number is 864-882-4488.
After hours and holidays:
1. Phone me at home. If I'm home I'll answer the phone and will be glad to help you. But Please...don't abuse this service; don't call me at home about routine or minor problems. And please...just the pertinent facts; I don't have time to hear long stories about how little Bitsy used to belong to your aunt and then she lost her job etc. Emergency service and time is expensive.
2. If I'm not home; there is an emergency veterinary clinic in Anderson near the Anderson Mall. Their phone number is 864-222-2188. There is also a 24 hour emergency clinic in Greenville near the Haywood Mall. Their phone number is 864-232-1878
HOURS
Veterinary Appointment Hours: Appointment Dest: 864-882-4488
Week Days: 8:30 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday Mornings: 8:30 - 1:00
Walk ins at these times are certainly welcome too, but please be patient.
Another option if you have a busy schedule is to drop off your pet with a note about your concerns anytime weekdays between 8:30am and 6pm.
General Office Hours: The office is open for other business even when the vet isn't available. For boarding, grooming, to pick up or drop off patients...or to look at strays needing homes; we are open:
Weekdays:9 am - 6 pm
Saturdays: 9 am - 1 pm
Sundays: 5 pm - 6 pm
Housecalls If you need me to come to your home, I'll be glad to do so as long as we can arrange it for a convenient time.
882-4488
It's interesting, the different types of requests I get concerning housecalls. There are the people who are invalid or too old to drive or arrange driving easily.
There are the people who want to euthanize their old pet friend in the dignity and quiet of their own home.
And then there are the people with so many pets, it's easier to do a sort of mass vaccination and deworming visit at home instead of getting them all to the clinic.
No problem with any of these reasons. Some people, though, want a housecall...usually right away...because their pet is too dirty to put in their car, or is too viscious for the caller to handle. Hoo boy. I would like to refer these kinds of cases to large animal vets like Dr Oliver and Dr Holland who are better set up for treating pets "in the field", but The Golden Rule keeps me from doing this.
At any rate, I'll be glad to make a housecall if appropriate and needed, but understand that for sick or injured pets I need to get them to the clinic where I have the staff, facilities, medications, and equipment to treat them properly. House calls cost $40-60 depending on time and distance in addition to the normal exam and treatment fees. 
Contact Us:
Feel free to visit and look around and meet everybody.
The FoxNest is located on Clemson Blvd (Hwy 123), the main highway between Clemson and Seneca in Western South Carolina.
Feel Free to Phone: 864-882-4488 We only have one receptionist...who sometimes is busy helping with patients or on another line...so be a little patient.
Write us a letter: our address is
FoxNest Veterinary Hospital
10445 Clemson Blvd
Seneca, SC 29678
Sorry, but I can't keep up with a zillion emails ... I'm too busy taking care of animals.
I also can't handle a zillion phone messages left on my home answering machine.
I do, however, try to return each of the 50 or so daily phone messages left with our receptionist each day, but please try to keep conversations short and to the point. I really, really care about you and your pet but sometimes the sheer number of calls gets overwhelming.
Thanks and God Bless, Roger Ross, Senior veterinarian at the FoxNest Veterinary Hospital
