HAPPY PAWS AT HOME VETERINARY CARE

Your Pets Our Care

Happy Paws at Home Veterinary Care is a home based veterinary clinic that provides wellness, chronic disease management and hospice care for your dog and cat. We provide a slower paced experience for you and your pet in the comfort of your home.

Our Core Values drive our vision and the decisions we make.

Core Values

Comfort:

We value the emotional well being of your pet. This includes additional training and certification for the Fear Free approach in veterinary medicine.
We strive to minimize discomfort and pain in your pets with chronic illnesses and painful conditions. Dr. Teresa has a high interest in chronic pain management.
Our longer appointment times allow your pet to get comfortable with their veterinary team. It also allows you, the pet parent, time to ask questions without feeling rushed. It is our goal that you understand your pet's health status and the plan we create together for your pet.

Transparency:

Clear communication that will help guide the decisions made for the health of your pet
Transparency of the services we provide. The costs of the common services can be found on our website. It is our goal that most of your questions can be answered on our website without having to wait on communication from the team. Additional diagnostic services will be discussed as needed during a visit before being performed.
Our goal is to make the decision to choose Happy Paws at Home a clear decision.

Family:

We understand the role pets have in your lives. Pets are a part of the family and owners are now pet parents. This relationship has deepened the human-animal bond. Let's work together to keep your pets healthier to live longer.
We strongly believe in having boundaries between work and family hours. We are available for appointments and communications as listed on our website.

OUR TEAM

We are connected by a true passion for the well-being of all animals.

Teresa Brandstetter, DVM

Veterinarian, Owner

Dr. Teresa grew up in a military family living in South Korea and Japan for most of her young childhood. She moved to Las Vegas, NV for her teenage years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nevada before heading to Pullman, WA to obtain her veterinary degree. She graduated from Washington State University in 2013. Thereafter, she moved back to Reno, NV and married her husband, Billy. They have a full household with their two young children, Avery and Liam, and Teresa's mother Pil (and two furry cats, Elliot and Kitten)

Her professional interests include a Fear Free clinical approach to vet medicine, multimodal pain prevention and treatment and helping pets with chronic illnesses such as obesity, allergies and chronic pain and arthritis. Her goal is to help you understand the care your pet will need to prevent or treat diseases.

Kaley O'neal

Veterinarian Assistant

Kaley is a native Northern Nevadan and has been working in veterinary medicine for 6 years. Her passion for veterinary medicine started growing up on a farm. She has experience in small animal general practice and emergency and critical care medicine. Her professional interests are in emergency and critical care. She is currently pursuing her Veterinary Technician degree at Penn Foster.

She has a special place in her heart for special needs animals. Her pack of dogs include a German Shepherd, Harper; a special needs Belgian Malignois, Soul; a cattle dog mix, Juine; Meathead a French Bulldog, and Quinn a borderdoodle. Kaley is will often be the bridge of communication between you and Dr. Teresa.

Wellness

My goal in wellness care for my patients is to prevent preventable diseases through client education. This includes physical exams, bloodwork, diet consultation and parasite prevention. Annual bloodwork allows me to have information regarding the bone marrow, liver and kidney function specific to your pet. It is valuable to have blood values from when your pet is not feeling ill, this enables me to compare bloodwork from when your pet is feeling well to the results they get when they are sick. Annual bloodwork also allows the monitoring of trends in the blood values. If there is a red flag, I will discuss what it could mean for you pet and the next steps required to further investigate the abnormality.

Non-urgent
illness

Non- urgent visits are to provide care to pets that do not need immediate attention by a doctor. Due to the scheduling of Happy Paws, immediate urgent care is not available.

Non-urgent visits examples include:

Ear infection with mild to no pain: signs of ear infections are redness, odor, debris or shaking
Gastrointestinal signs (vomiting, diarrhea, low appetite) AND if your pet is still alert and has their normal behavior
Limping that is not getting worse or very painful at onset
Skin rashes or scratching
Allergies
Non painful eye problems IF there is no blood and they can still see
Weight loss, but still eating/drinking
Lumps and growths that are not bleeding or causing pain

Chronic
disease management

Chronic illness in pets can become frustrating for the pet parent due to the long term commitment required in the care of the disease. It can be challenging for the pet parent when the response to treatment is poor or the disease is hard to manage/stabilize.

With Happy Paws at Home, we strive to take the time to discuss symptoms, diagnostic tests, disease diagnose and treatment and answer questions you will have regarding your pet and their health.

Some examples include:

Diabetes mellitus
Hyperadrenocorticism, Cushing's Disease
Allergies (atopy vs food)
Osteoarthritis
Weight management
Second opinion on clinical signs and previous test results

Palliative and hospice care

End of life care and decisions made in the final stage of a pet's lifetime are just as important as wellness care in a new pet in the household. The focus of hospice care is to maximize patient comfort with minimal suffering. The relationship between the pet caregiver and veterinarian is one of collaboration and support. Palliative care focuses on treatment that supports or improves the quality of life of a pet by relieving suffering. Our goal is to support the pet's physical, emotional and social needs during this final stage of life. Humane euthanasia is often the best choice for pet parents and animals when we can no longer support quality of life in pets.

The decision to euthanize a beloved pet is often a very difficult, it is the hardest part of being a pet parent. I hope to be a resource to help support you through this difficult time.

REVIEWS

Client Feedback

Dr. Teresa is easily the best veterinarian we have ever seen. We will go out of our way to see only her. She is kind, compassionate, efficient, professional and truly loves what she does. Dr. Teresa knows how to calm our dogs when they are anxious, we all know going to the vet isn't the most pleasant experience for them, but she helps make them feel at ease. For me, I love the way she educates me and doesn't judge me for the choices I make for my dogs. (Specifically, I feed raw and try to be more holistic.) She helps me make the best decisions. I really appreciate that Dr. Teresa looks outside the box and isn't a "cookie cutter" vet. She knows there is more than one way to treat each patient and each ailment. I appreciate and value her opinions. Thank you, Dr. Teresa, you're truly appreciated.

Sarah A.

I highly recommend Dr. Teresa Brandstetter to anyone seeking veterinary services. She is extremely knowledgeable in veterinary science, compassionate and has excellent follow up skills. Dr. Teresa is professional, very personable and my favorite veterinarian ever!

Robin B.

Dr. Teresa is by far the best veterinarian I have had for many years. She has cared for my 4 legged babies (and ones that have crossed the Rainbow Bridge). She is compassionate & able to advise you on their care where you would understand and follow her instructions. I highly recommend (and I have referred several friends/family members) to Dr. Teresa. You will not be disappointed.