Valdez Veterinary Services

09/24/2026

Sorry for the swears but so true!

09/05/2026

Interesting; good information,

07/23/2026

Happy Birthday Jaimee!!! You are an invaluable part of Valdez Veterinary Services!!! Thank you so much for all your hard work!! We are lucky to have you! 🎊🎂🎈🥳

07/08/2026

Cool stuff!

Rabies is a viral disease that has plagued humanity for generations. Just last month, researchers in Canada published a case report about an 11-year-old boy who died of rabies about 5 weeks after he woke up with a bat on his face and nose in northern Ontario in 2024. A rabies vaccine could have saved his life, but just 150 years ago, such options weren’t available to people who experienced such brushes with rabid animals.

That changed on July 6, 1885, when a 9-year-old French boy named Joseph Meister was the first person to be treated with an experimental rabies vaccine developed by none other than the father of modern microbiology, Louis Pasteur, in Paris.

Meister was bitten 14 times by a rabid dog in Alsace two days earlier, and his mother Marie-Angélique had heard that the famed chemist was testing a rabies vaccine on dogs in Paris. She traveled to the metropolis and begged Pasteur to save her son. Initially the scientist balked at the idea, but the boy was near death and an influential Parisian physician named Jacques-Joseph Grancher convinced Pasteur and his colleagues to administer the vaccine to Meister.

Starting on July 6, Pasteur gave about a dozen doses of the vaccine, initially developed by his assistant Emile Roux, to Meister over the course of the next 10 to 11 days. Aside from the experimental nature of the vaccine, this represented a legal breach by Pasteur, who was not licensed as a physician. Despite these obstacles, less than a month after he was bitten, the boy had recovered.

In the ensuing years, hundreds of people would travel to Pasteur’s laboratory in Paris from all over the world to receive the groundbreaking rabies treatment. The success of the treatment helped build the Pasteur Institute, which was founded in 1887 and inaugurated in 1888. Pasteur had revolutionized science’s understanding of fermentation, improved food storage and sterilization by developing a process that would bear his name, and disproved the long-standing theory of spontaneous generation. But his work with the rabies vaccine cemented his status as an internationally renowned researcher.

Grancher gave the inaugural address at the ceremony to formally launch the Pasteur Institute, and Joseph Meister would become caretaker of the institute as an adult, a role he inhabited until his death in 1940 at the age of 64

06/25/2026

This is HUGE news! A study was recently published showing that lorazepam may be a safe option for reducing recurrent urinary obstruction and lower urinary tract signs in male cats after urethral obstruction has been resolved.

"No cats receiving lorazepam had UO (urinary obstruction) recurrence" during the study.

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2026 May 6:1-9. doi: 10.2460/javma.26.01.0045.

05/18/2026

We will be closed
May 26 thru June 14
We apologize for any inconvenience.

04/24/2026

Thank you so much for your donations! Honey Bear helped provide care of this poor pup this week. 💕

04/24/2026

You're welcome! We so wish River could find a loving home! Malamutes are very special to us!

A very special thank you to Valdez Veterinary Services LLC 🤍🐾

They have once again shown up for us in a big way with an unexpected donation—and it truly means more than we can put into words. From day one, they have stood beside our rescue as our biggest sponsor, consistently showing compassion, generosity, and unwavering support for the animals we fight for every day.

Because of them, we’re able to say “yes” to animals who need us most.

We are endlessly grateful for the role they play in our mission. This kind of support doesn’t just help—it changes lives.

If you’re ever in the Valdez area, we cannot recommend them enough. They care for every animal like their own, and it shows in everything they do.

Thank you for being such an incredible part of our village.

04/21/2026

Happy Veterinary Reception week!
We would not function without our Jaimee!
Thank you Jaimee for all your hard work and putting up with me!!!!
-Dr Foster