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Mon - Fri:	8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat:	9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sun	Closed

Places Near Encinitas with Veterinary Clinics & Hospitals

Leucadia (2 miles)
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Solana Beach (8 miles)
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Del Mar (11 miles)
Carlsbad (12 miles)

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Your place or ours...we do house calls!

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Phone: (760) 683-8297

Phone: (760) 230-5217

TollFree: (888) 426-4435

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Located in historic downtown Leucadia in Encinitas, on Highway 101.

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http://www.sdcoastalanimal.com

http://www.sdmobilevet.com

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Veterinary Clinics & Hospitals, Pet Grooming, Veterinarians, Veterinary Labs, Veterinary Specialty Services

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Certifications: American Veterinary Medical Association, California Veterinary Medical Associa

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Phone: (760) 633-2254

Address: 434 N Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA 92024

Website: http://www.sdcoastalanimal.com

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Coastal Animal Hospital

Preventive Care

Dental Care
One of the hardest decisions to make for some concerned pet owners is the decision to have their pet anesthetized for a necessary procedure. Some of these procedures are preventative, such as a spay or neuter as well as an early stage dental cleaning, which can make the decision to incur some amount of risk with anesthesia seem like a tough call to make.
Vaccination
Veterinary Ophthalmology
After receiving his veterinary degree, he set off to New York City to participate in arguably the most intensive internship in the country. During the year, he was trained by some of the top veterinarians in emergency and critical care, internal medicine, surgery, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, pathology, and radiology. There he started his first mobile veterinary practice and traveled to each of his appointments with his black medical bag via the NY subway system. Upon his return to San Diego in 2007, he re-started his housecall practice which then allowed him to open Coastal Animal Hospital. He founded The HANA Fund, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to providing free and low cost veterinary care to homeless and financially needy families. He is also the Clinical Director of Dutch and a veterinary advisor to MyPetPath. He was on the board of directors of the Independent Veterinary Practitioners Association and is the past president of the Leucadia 101 Main Street Association. He is also a black belt in the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do. He has a core belief in shopping local small businesses and would like to encourage those ideals and philosophies in the community. In his free time, he enjoys surfing, camping and hiking, and traveling. Dr. Evans lives in Leucadia with his family including his dog, Sia, 2 leopard geckos, and his 3 opinionated chickens.
Nutritional Counseling
Quality of life is reduced in obese dogs but improves after successful weight loss. The Veterinary Journal, Vol 192, No. 3, June 2012. German, A.J., et al.
Comprehensive Examination
We perform a complete physical examination the morning of every procedure to ensure there are no new findings which would complicate the procedure.

Illness Treatment

Parasites Treatment and Control
Some background on heartworm disease, because it’s a really interesting disease. It’s not spread dog to dog. It’s spread by mosquitoes. Mosquitoes will bite them. So even indoor only dogs can get this, by the way, it’s not just dogs that are going out on all over the place. Mosquitoes can be anywhere here in San Diego and they’ll bite your dog. They’ll inject the worm, it will travel from the mosquito down the little proboscis of the mosquito and into your dog’s bloodstream. Really cool, really interesting. I mean, not cool, but you know, just interesting life cycle how this thing works. It travels all throughout the body. After about six months, it’ll take hold and turn into an adult in the heart and in the lungs. And it lives there. And then it starts to reproduce. So really, really crazy disease, really interesting, but not a great disease to have because it can be fatal if your dog gets it. The good news is in San Diego, there’s not a lot of heartworm disease here. It’s here. It’s definitely here, but it’s just not as prevalent as it is in other parts of the country where it is just rampant. So we have to be cautious, but we don’t have to be as really, you know, kind of on it as we do with other parts of the country, which is great. I do recommend heartworm medications here, even though heartworm is pretty low numbers.
Pain Management
Multi-modal pain control. Preventing pain is the most effective way of treating and controlling pain. Single agent pain control is not as effective because pain is conducted by multiple pathways in the body. For surgeries, we will use a combination of opioid pain medications, local anesthesia (lidocaine) blocks, continuous rate infusions of pain medications, injectable NSAIDs, Laser therapy, and combinations of oral medications depending on the level of pain anticipated for each procedure.
Vomiting Treatment
Diarrhea Treatment
Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment

Infection Treatment

Leptospirosis Treatment
Dec 27, 2020 | Pet Health and Wellness Because 2020 is the year where everything falls apart, San Diego animals (including residents of Encinitas and Carlsbad) are now facing a bacterial disease that traditionally hasn’t been prevalent in our area: Leptospirosis. Leptospirosis (Lepto) is a bacterial...
Ear Infection Treatment
Preventative medicine is the name of the game. By finding and treating problems early, we can prevent them from turning into disasters that can require months of treatment. A classic example is the common ear infection. We find a lot of dogs are living with ear infections and are not yet “clinical” for them – meaning they are not yet painful, shaking their head, or have a bad odor. When we find and treat these ear infections early, we can treat them with minimal effort. Once they have been there for a long time and are pouring out of the ear canal, these ear infections, are a chronic source of pain and can take a frustratingly long time to heal. This is why we recommend coming in twice a year for a thorough examination to find any problems that may be brewing and treat them early.

Chronic Condition Treatment

Arthritis Treatment
Osteoarthritis checker: This website is a great resource to help you determine if your cat has painful arthritis (which is one of the most under-diagnosed conditions in cats)
Hip Dysplasia Treatment
Laser therapy is the use of light energy to induce your body’s own natural ability to heal. This benefits of laser are best suited for conditions that are swollen, inflamed, infected, or painful. Laser therapy is a great drug-free treatment option for pets with arthritis. This can reduce the number of NSAIDs (Rimadyl, Meloxicam, etc) or other pain medications needed to keep our pets comfortable as they age and have difficulty moving (or if they have a condition such as hip dysplasia, etc).
Heart Disease Treatment
The safest way to induce anesthesia (going from awake to anesthetized) is with injectable medications. There are lots of combinations of medications and some are better than others in terms of how smooth their induction process is as well as the smoothness of their recovery. For most healthy patients, we use a combination of propofol and midazolam to induce anesthesia. We may choose different medications (Etomidate) if your pet has severe heart disease, for example.
Kidney Disease Treatment
Putting an animal under anesthesia alters the body’s ability to maintain normal homeostasis and cardiovascular stability. The most important variable that we monitor when they are under anesthesia is blood pressure (see item 18) and IV fluids help to control and maintain that variable. Without it, your pet may experience low blood pressure for the entire procedure which can lead to chronic kidney damage and at worse, death. Also having a patent IV catheter is essential if there is sudden cardiac collapse and they need injectable medications to support their heart.
Cancer Treatment
So what is this test? This is a test through your pet’s blood to detect cancer. Cancer is a disease of the DNA. It’s a disease of your genome. You get these little mutations in your DNA. And while our body has ways of dealing with that, it doesn’t get it all the time. And that’s how cancer develops. These cancer cells continue to grow and what they do is they actually release little tiny fragments of their DNA into the bloodstream called cell-free DNA. This test finds those tiny fragments of DNA, amplifies it, and lets us know that there’s cancer in the bloodstream. You might have even experienced this yourself. If you or your significant other were pregnant and you had Non-invasive prenatal blood testing done, what they’re finding is little tiny fragments of the fetus DNA and they can tell you, is it a boy or a girl? Are there any genetic abnormalities that have happened? So this is something that’s actually really commonly done on the human side and they’re able to take that same technology and apply it to animal cancer, which is just amazing. So very, very excited about it.

Dental Surgery
Extraction of severely damaged teeth. Teeth that have significant tooth decay, resorptive lesions, or infections require oral surgery to remove the damaged teeth. Some teeth may also be amenable to root canal therapy performed by a board-certified veterinary dentist. We can discuss referring your pet for these procedures if it is right for you and your pet.
Veterinary Surgery
Not to give. There are many practices still giving antibiotics to routine surgeries such as spays, neuters, and routine dental cleanings for healthy patients. This is completely unnecessary (unless they are concerned about the sterility of their equipment, which is another topic) and an example of not practicing high quality medicine.
Spaying and Neutering
Veterinary Euthanasia

Laboratory Services
Annual Cancer Screening Day. This is a program we created (and to our knowledge is not done anywhere else in the country) to detect cancer before your pet becomes sick from it. Unfortunately there is not a good blood test to check for cancer and the most reliable way is to actually look for it using a combination of X-rays of the chest (a common place for cancer to develop) and an abdominal ultrasound to evaluate the internal organs for any abnormality. What makes this a unique program is the cost of those two tests are typically over $800 but on the Cancer Screening Day, we negotiated with our radiologist to decrease the cost by almost half which makes the testing more affordable.
X-Ray
So how are we going to use this? There’s a couple different ways we’re going to use this test now that we have it. One is just as an annual screening. We’ve been doing annual cancer screening for the past eight years. This is one of the programs that we piloted here as a way to find cancer early in dogs. We do an annual abdominal ultrasound and chest x-rays. And we can use this new testing in conjunction with those tests because sometimes, on the ultrasound or the x-rays, there’ll be a little spot and we won’t really know what to make of that. Is that cancer? Is it not? We just need to follow up. So we can use this test in conjunction to see if that spot is a concern. Or is cancer just not visible on x-ray or ultrasound? This test can find these really small fragments of DNA that can give us that answer at the earliest stages. We can also use it as a screening for dogs that are more prone to cancer. We know there are a lot of dogs that are prone to cancer. There’s the golden retrievers, there’s the labradors, there’s the rottweilers, the boxers. Starting to use this test on an annual basis as these breeds hit those later stages in their life to try to detect it at their earliest stages can be really, really helpful. We can also use this to follow up with treatment. Say your dog has gone through cancer treatment. And we need to know, do we need to stop treatment? Do we need to keep going? You can use this test to follow up to see, are there still tiny fragments of cancer in the bloodstream? And if there are, we’re going to continue treatment moving forward. So, a lot of different ways we can use this test to try to either direct treatment or find cancer at the earliest stages.
Dental Radiology
We do not recommend anesthesia-free dentals as they provide no benefit for your pet. The American College of Veterinary Dentistry’s page has great information and facts about these procedures. Our hospital’s mission is to minimize pain, stress, and provide the best patient care possible. If there were benefits to these procedures we would obviously recommend them as they appear, on the surface, to be a better, safer, less expensive alternative. However, that is simply not the case. These procedures not only can be very stressful for your pets as heavy restraint is needed to hold them still as their teeth are scraped with the sharp dental instruments, but they can also be dangerous. If your pet suddenly moves during the procedure, their gums can be lacerated and pet’s jaws have been fractured during these procedures (several court cases in California have documented this and held companies that perform these procedures liable). Not only are these procedures not safe, but they are also not effective. These procedure are actually considered “cosmetic” procedures and do not prevent or treat actual dental disease. Only the outer surface of the tooth is treated, missing the space between the teeth and the inside surface of the teeth (lingual aspect). You are given a false sense of security about the health of the teeth because problems below the gum line will continue to fester. Simply put, a complete oral exam, assessment (including dental X-rays), and treatment is not possible on an awake animal. Finally, these cleanings are not cost-effective. From a business perspective, we would stand to make a lot of money from these procedures as it is an easy “sell”. Most anesthesia-free dental companies are charging approximately $150 for these procedures and recommend them every 1 to 6 months. The potential revenues are much higher for this than they are for an anesthetized oral exam and treatment, which, for the average pet, is recommended every 1-3 years (depending on their mouth, if you are brushing, etc) at a cost of approximately $500-550. If an anesthesia free dental is performed every 2-3 months, that is a cumulative cost to you of $1200-$1800 over 2 years and even then, your pet still has untreated dental disease and is living with oral pain. We encourage you not to be swayed by the fear tactics of these untrained and unscrupulous salesmen. Our agenda is your pet’s health. They are capitalizing on your fears, plain and simple.
Microchipping
Better microchips. When we started we were using the same microchips that most other hospitals use. Then we found a microchip that was smaller (and therefore less painful to insert), was less likely to break (they do break! We have seen broken microchips on X-ray), and was less annoying (the other company sent an up-sell letter each year which tricked people in to thinking they needed to sign up for an annual fee to keep their microchip useful – which wasn’t the case. No up-selling is part of our mission statement).

General Pet Care

Grooming
Sydney’s passion for animals began at the age of 5 when her mother began taking her across the border to Tijuana to feed all the homeless dogs she could find. At 15, she began taking college classes which allowed her to graduate from high school 2 years early. Having started as an English major, she realized her love for animals was stronger and took a break from school to work at an animal hospital. Over the past 2 years Sydney has learned a lot about the veterinary field and animal care gaining new skills such as dog grooming and has even rescued a couple of cold-blooded friends that now call her apartment “home”. Sydney’s goals are to travel the world, camp all over the US, and most importantly advance in the veterinary field. On her days off Sydney enjoys going to concerts, weightlifting, getting tattooed, and taking herself to new restaurants!
Senior Pet Care
Because we believe in these tools, we have also created a way for our clients to participate in a wellness program that makes it easier to budget for their care. Our Wellness Plans includes up to 4 examinations/year, all of the vaccines and other wellness items, annual blood work, and a years supply of flea and heartworm medications. For senior pets, we also have our Senior Wellness Plans which include the cost of the Annual Pet Cancer Screening Day in November. This can give us the peace of mind that we are not missing a major disease in our older friends. Both the Adult and Senior Wellness Plans have a “+” version which also includes the cost of a dental cleaning procedure (extractions and other therapies are additional). Watch to learn more.
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