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The Veterinary Internal Medicine Group (VIMG) Mobile Service provides internal medicine consultations and procedures to veterinarians in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

Every year, right after the 31st, our calls change. Something got eaten. 🎃Wrappers are the classic, but it’s also ribbon...
10/23/2026

Every year, right after the 31st, our calls change. Something got eaten. 🎃

Wrappers are the classic, but it’s also ribbon, the felt ear off a costume, a chunk of a plastic pumpkin, and — without fail, every single year — corn cobs. Some of it passes. Some of it lodges in the intestine, and that pet stops eating, vomits repeatedly, and gets very sick very quickly.

If your pet ate something and is vomiting or off food, that’s your veterinarian or the ER today, not a wait-and-see. Ultrasound is often how an obstruction gets confirmed and located before surgery — but the first call is the emergency call.

Keep the candy bowl somewhere with a door. 🍬

This is the happiest appointment on our schedule and we will take it every time. 🐶Ultrasound confirms pregnancy in dogs ...
10/21/2026

This is the happiest appointment on our schedule and we will take it every time. 🐶

Ultrasound confirms pregnancy in dogs and cats safely — no radiation, no sedation — usually around two to three weeks after a suspected mating. Dr. Armstrong can assess viability, see how things are developing, and flag the situations worth watching early. A singleton pregnancy, for one, can complicate delivery in a way you’d much rather know about in advance than at 2 a.m.

Call us yourself, no referral required. You get the answer during the appointment — not on a callback — and you’ll be standing right there for it.

📞 (305) 677-2015 to book at Kendall or Bird Rd.

We’re the veterinary technicians and support team at VIMG. We don’t run the ultrasound — Dr. Armstrong performs and inte...
10/19/2026

We’re the veterinary technicians and support team at VIMG. We don’t run the ultrasound — Dr. Armstrong performs and interprets every single scan himself, and that’s the entire point of coming here. So here’s what we actually do. 🩺

We take the call when your vet says the word “mass.” We chase records across three different clinics so he walks in already knowing your pet’s story. We set up a specialty exam room inside somebody else’s practice, twice a week, in two parts of Miami. We shave the belly. We hold the leg. And we watch your face while he’s scanning, so we usually know before you say anything whether you need a minute.

Techs at specialty practices tend to be invisible in posts like this. Not this week.

Tag a vet tech who’s taken care of your animal. 🖤

In most hospitals your pet disappears through a door and comes back twenty minutes later, and someone describes to you w...
10/16/2026

In most hospitals your pet disappears through a door and comes back twenty minutes later, and someone describes to you what happened in there. 🐾

Here you sit next to the table with your hand on her. She can see you the entire time, which is most of the reason abdominal scans so rarely need sedation. You watch the screen alongside Dr. Armstrong as he works, and you ask your question the moment you think of it — not three days later on a callback.

We’ve been doing this long enough to see the difference it makes in the animals. They settle faster and fight less. And you leave actually understanding what was found, because you watched him find it.

You can get an ultrasound in a lot of places now. What’s harder to find is someone who will sit down afterward and tell ...
10/14/2026

You can get an ultrasound in a lot of places now. What’s harder to find is someone who will sit down afterward and tell you what it actually means for your dog. 🩺

An internal medicine consult with Dr. Armstrong is exactly that: your pet’s full history, the imaging, the bloodwork, and the timeline pulled into one working diagnosis and a plan you can act on this week. He’s board-certified in small animal internal medicine (DACVIM) — a residency and board examinations beyond veterinary school, not a weekend course.

You can book one yourself. Bring the file, bring the imaging you already have, bring the questions your last visit didn’t answer. Telemedicine consults are available too, if you’re further down in the Keys.

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Not every call is urgent. These five usually are. 🐾• Losing weight with no change in diet• Vomiting or diarrhea that kee...
10/12/2026

Not every call is urgent. These five usually are. 🐾

• Losing weight with no change in diet
• Vomiting or diarrhea that keeps coming back
• A belly that’s tender, swollen, or just “off” to the touch
• Straining to urinate, or urinating differently than usual
• Weakness, collapse, or a sudden drop in energy

Any one of these can turn out to be nothing. Paired with abnormal bloodwork, or in a senior pet, they’re the pattern that brings people to us. Imaging is how you tell “nothing” apart from “something we caught early.”

If anything on this list sounds like your pet, call us directly — no referral needed. We run pop-up clinics four days a week between Kendall and Bird Rd, and we’ll keep your regular vet in the loop.

Elevated liver enzymes are one of the most common reasons pets end up in front of us — and one of the least specific fin...
10/09/2026

Elevated liver enzymes are one of the most common reasons pets end up in front of us — and one of the least specific findings in veterinary medicine. 🩺

A high ALT can mean a liver reacting to something happening somewhere else entirely. It can mean a gallbladder problem, a mass, a shunt, an endocrine disease, or a medication. Bloodwork can’t tell those apart. It just says: look closer.

That’s what ultrasound is for — structure, texture, blood flow, the biliary tree, the organs around it — interpreted by Dr. Armstrong while your pet is still on the table. When a case needs more than ultrasound can give, CT is available through our sister practice, Mobile Pet Imaging.

If you’re holding a lab report you don’t understand, call us. 📞 (305) 677-2015

Finding something on ultrasound is only half the job. A spot on the spleen, a thickened intestinal wall, an enlarged lym...
10/07/2026

Finding something on ultrasound is only half the job. A spot on the spleen, a thickened intestinal wall, an enlarged lymph node — the image tells us it’s there. It doesn’t tell us what it is. 🔬

A fine needle aspirate does. Dr. Armstrong watches the needle on the screen in real time and pulls cells from the exact spot. No incision, no hospital stay. Most patients get gentle sedation and go home to a normal afternoon.

Two things are required at the appointment: a recent ultrasound report, and a normal platelet count from within the last 30 days. If you don’t have those yet, call us anyway and we’ll tell you exactly what to ask your vet for. It also has to be paired with an abdominal ultrasound or an internal medicine consult — we don’t aspirate blind.

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When we call to confirm your appointment, we’ll usually ask you to withhold food beforehand. People push back on this, a...
10/05/2026

When we call to confirm your appointment, we’ll usually ask you to withhold food beforehand. People push back on this, and we understand — nobody wants to be the villain at 6 a.m. 🐕

Here’s why it matters. Ultrasound waves don’t travel through gas. A stomach full of kibble and air sits directly on top of the pancreas, the duodenum, part of the liver — exactly the places we’re usually trying to look at. A fasted belly can be the difference between a clear answer and “we should repeat this.”

Water is fine. Medications, ask us. And if your pet is diabetic or very small, tell us, because the instructions change.

📞 Call (305) 677-2015 and we’ll walk through prep for your pet specifically.

Wellness month usually means “book your annual exam,” and you should. But an exam is a screening tool. It’s built to fin...
10/02/2026

Wellness month usually means “book your annual exam,” and you should. But an exam is a screening tool. It’s built to find the question, not to finish it. 🍂

Your vet feels something in the belly. A liver value comes back high. A cat drops a pound she didn’t need to lose. What comes next is imaging — and a lot of pet parents don’t realize they can book that part themselves.

We work alongside your primary veterinarian and send them everything. But you don’t have to wait on a referral to get answers about your own dog.

📞 (305) 677-2015

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