Paton and Martin Veterinary Services

02/27/2026

Check out our new facebook and instagram pages! Follow our new pages and enter the contest to win a $100 credit towards your next dental float! We’re excited to start connecting with you all again! Don’t forget to head to the new page to comment to get your entry in!

To endure you're entered in the contest - you'll need to head over to the original post (you can just click this link: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HkjuH1SyR/ ) and like/comment on that one 🙂 🐎

02/06/2026

Join us March 4 at High Point Equestrian Center to learn more about kissing spine from Dr. Natacha Bonomelli and Dr. Billy Hodge. Everyone is welcome!

01/08/2026

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01/08/2026

It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved long term office employee Susan Dahlstedt. Susan pased away peacefully January 7 after a short battle with an aggressive cancer. Susan has been part of the heart and soul of our practice for the last 13 years.

Susan was truly a lover of all animals but in particular, she adored her Boxer dogs and Arabian horses and they were a huge part of her life.

Susan was truly a humanitarian and cared deeply for the underprivileged and politically oppressed. She was never afraid to express her opinion.

Susan was a person of many interests and many talents, including her recent passion in photography. You may well also have seen her at a Rolling Stones concert or rocking to some heavy metal! We always knew when she was pulling into the driveway at work as we could hear her music long before her arrival.

While our hearts are heavy we know that Susan lived her life to its fullest and lived life with no regrets.

Our world at Paton and Martin will not be the same without her.

12/05/2025

Work Christmas Party 2025!!🎄🎅

11/25/2025

As you may have noticed, we have a donation box in the front office entry again this year. Each year, instead of doing a “Secret Santa” or other official staff gift exchange, we encourage all staff to make a donation to the collection box. We’ve partnered with Ishtar Women’s Resource Society, LAPS and Infinite Expansion Foundation to collect and distribute the donations. There’s also a box on the front reception desk for cash or gift card donations. Infinite Expansion Foundation is putting together the hampers and distributing them to the women/children who are being supported by Ishtar Women’s Resource Society as well as LAPS. For more info on any of the organizations, go to:

https://ishtarsociety.org/
https://www.lapsbc.ca/
https://infiniteexpansionfoundation.ca/

Accepted donations include:
New Toys
New children’s clothes
Non-perishable food items
Gift cards for groceries or gifts for children or women
New toiletries
Pet food
Pet toys

Clients can give any donations to the vets at their appointments or bring to the office if they want to contribute.

Let’s try and make it a Merry Little Christmas for everyone this year!

11/19/2025

Dr. Paton is in Egypt this week with his son Greg taking in all of the sights, sounds and history of this ancient land. Of course, he found himself at an equine veterinary hospital.

Animal Care in Egypt (ACE) is a British charity hospital dedicated to helping stop the suffering of thousands of animals in the poorest communities of Luxor by providing free veterinary care and education.

In Dr Paton’s words this hospital was extremely well run, completely free and desperately needed.

https://www.ace-egypt.org.uk/

11/16/2025

4 Cyte is a product that we have been recommending for some time now. We send it home with most of our post-op arthroscopic surgery cases as well as for any horse who may be experiencing arthritis or joint pain.

This video shows Dr. Wayne McIIwraith (extremely respected equine surgeon at CSU, the founding director of the Orthopaedic Research Center and considered the GURU of osteoarthritis research in horses) talking about the benefits of this product which is based on scientific research and data.

There is a plethora of joint products out there that are not backed up by any research or scientific proof. 4 Cyte has consistently demonstrated tangible, proven disease-modifying properties.

Interpath Global, a leader in animal health solutions, brings unparalleled expertise to the project. With a focus on developing evidence-based products that ...

11/08/2025

Our office will be closed on Tuesday November 11 for Remembrance Day. If you have an emergency during this time please call 604-856-3351 and our on-call veterinarian will be able to assist you.

"All we have of freedom , all we use or know, this our fathers bought for us long and long ago"

We honour all who served to defend freedom, both human and animal, and those who continue to do so.

11/05/2025

Important news if you are planning to take your horses to Arizona and then return to Canada with them.

Edit: it does say this in the post, but this affects horses travelling TO Canada from Arizona. The best source of accurate information on importing/exporting horses is the CFIA and our most current information is that horses coming back from Arizona will need to be quarantined. If we get different information, we will be sure to update this.

11/04/2025

A rare moment where our veterinarians Dr David Paton, Dr Sarah Graham, Dr Marielle St-Laurent, Dr Eric Martin and Dr Natacha Bonomelli are all at the same place at the same time!

The occasion is the annual seminar which has been hosted by the equine veterinarians of BC since 1973. The goal has always been to have a seminar in which the equine vets from around the province could learn and take home useable information to their practices. Dr. David Paton is Chairman of the Equine Committee and Seminar.

Over the years a wide range of topics presented by world class speakers have been covered including areas of medicine, surgery, lameness, sport horse rehabilitation, dentistry, dermatology, ophthalmology, imaging reproduction, anesthesiology and neonatology to list a few.

We were especially proud that one of the speakers this year is a past PMVS intern Dr. Rachel Hector DVM, MS, DACVAA. Dr. Hector is an Assistant Professor of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia at Colorado State University. Her clinical focus is in equine practice, with specific expertise in emergency care, pain management, and equine behaviour. Her research includes anesthetic management and pharmacologic intervention in the treatment of endotoxemia, positive reinforcement training in a medical setting, behaviour modifying drugs, anesthetic recovery quality, metabolic responses to trauma and acute pain, improving local anesthetic techniques, and chronic pain therapy.

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” — Harry S. Truman