About us

We are a unique mixed animal clinic, offering compassionate, thorough care for all your pets, including dogs, cats, exotics of all sorts and horses. We offer a friendly, personal, one-on-one, small town type of service that is difficult to find in this age of busy, impersonal, corporate businesses. We are located only 15 minutes from downtown Fort Collins in the quiet town of Laporte near the lovely Cache La Poudre River area. We enjoy communicating with our well-informed, well-educated, caring clientele. We would love to have you as a client, and will do our best to help you make intelligent, well-informed and balanced decisions about your pet's care. We would love to meet you and your 2 or 4-legged, furred, scaled or feathered friends! LaPorte Animal Clinic was established in 1996 by Doctors Andrew and Marta Dean. The interior of the practice was built by hand by Andrew and Marta and several friends and family. Their goal was to open a friendly, 'mom and pop' type of mixed animal veterinary practice to serve Laporte, Fort Collins, and the surrounding area. Both doctors had previously worked at several very busy small animal and mixed animal practices and desired to have a more one-on-one approach to Veterinary medicine, while still offering the highest quality of medicine, surgery and diagnostics. The doctors have many years of experience, and in-depth knowledge of the care of many different species. Here at Laporte Animal Clinic, we treat all sorts of animals, from the smallest mouse,turtle,birds,snakes, guinea pigs, rabbits and other exotics, to dogs and cats, to horses. We enjoy especially interacting with their caretakers, and stress education of owners as a major goal. We want to help you take the best possible care of your four and two-legged, feathered, scaly or furred friends. We seek to offer you a wide range of services for treatment and surgery of your pets, and educate you on all available resources and options when needed(in order to help you make the best decisions, both for you and your pet). We strongly believe in preventative care and helping your pets live long, healthy, active lives. Small animal and exotics services include: -Thorough physical examinations for sick and well patients of all types -Hospitalization and medical care, IV fluid therapy, etc for sick pets -Complete vaccinations for dogs, cats and ferrets -Advanced, safer isoflurane gas anesthesia and propofol induction, as well as many different types of pain control modalities, based on what is proper for each animal's condition. -Special incubator, oxygen cage and nebulizer for sick birds, reptiles and other exotics and neonatal dogs and cats -EKG, Blood pressure and pulse oximetry monitoring for all our surgical patients -In house laboratory and X-ray capability(standard body xrays and dental x-rays), Ultrasound available, also -Spays, Castrations, soft-tissue surgeries(including bladder surgeries, tumor removals,etc) orthopedic surgery -Nutritional and preventative care counseling -Knowledgeable dental care including complete tooth cleaning and polishing root planing, dental X-rays, tooth extractions for dogs and cats and care for special dental problems of rabbits and rodents -OFA xrays for breeding dogs (of hips and elbows) -Microchip implantation Equine service include: -The convenience of a Veterinarian and Farrier all in one! -Haul in or farm call service -Health certificates, Coggins testing -mobile radiographs, ultrasound -Complete vaccination and deworming packages -Colic/laceration treatments -Experienced lameness evaluations, joint blocks and injections, other treatments -Dental care including hand tools and advanced motorized dental instruments -knowledgeable and experienced care for special dental problems such as wave mouth, extractions, etc -Performance dentistry to help bitting and other problems -Therapeutic and physiologic horseshoeing and barefoot trims -Hot shoeing -Pads, caulks, composite materials -Traction packages for winter and mud -Laminitis and special needs cases welcome