Veterinarians
Full-service animal hospital on Francis Road, established in 1974 and one of Richmond's longest-running vet clinics. Preventive care, dentistry, diagnostics, general and orthopedic surgery, plus grooming, boarding and end-of-life support.
Registering with a vet before you need one is the best piece of advice for anybody arriving in this city with an animal. The worst possible moment to start phoning around is eight on a Sunday evening with a sick dog in the back of the car, and by then the choice is whoever answers rather than whoever is right.
Full service means something specific in veterinary medicine. Preventive care, dentistry and diagnostics sit alongside surgical work, and when grooming, boarding and end-of-life support happen in the same building, an animal is not being shuttled between strangers at the worst moments. That last one deserves saying plainly. Having somewhere familiar for the hardest appointment, with staff who already know the animal, is worth more than most people realize until the day arrives.
Francis Road runs east to west through Broadmoor and is one of the more useful roads in the city for an errand like this. It is residential, easy to drive, and roughly central between Steveston, Seafair and the No. 3 Road corridor, which means a clinic here draws from a wide slice of south and west Richmond rather than from a single neighborhood.
Longevity is the other signal worth reading in this category. A practice that has looked after several generations of the same families' animals carries institutional memory no chart system reproduces, and in a city where people stay in the same houses for thirty years, that is more common than you would expect.
In the Broadmoor neighbourhood of Richmond.
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Full-service small animal clinic on No. 3 Road, open weekdays and Saturdays and accepting new patients. Wellness exams, vaccinations, dentistry and surgery for cats and dogs, in a central south-Richmond location with its own parking.
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West Richmond vet tucked into the Seafair Shopping Centre, in business since 1983 and now paired with Ironwood Animal Hospital under the same ownership. General medical, surgical and dental care for dogs, cats and small pets.
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Steveston Village vet on Moncton Street currently taking new patients, using a fear-free approach for nervous animals. Wellness exams, vaccinations, dentistry, surgery and diagnostics, and it will do house calls and medical boarding.
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South Richmond vet clinic in the Coppersmith plaza, open weekends and with one late evening a week but closed Mondays. Shares ownership with Seafair Animal Clinic, so between the two locations you can usually be seen seven days a week.
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One of Canada's largest non-profit animal hospitals, run by the Regional Animal Protection Society in east Richmond. Open seven days with walk-ins and urgent cases, treats exotics as well as cats and dogs, and subsidises care for owners in need.
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Appointment-only family practice at No. 3 Road and Francis, one of two Live Well offices in Richmond. Covers primary and urgent care, adult immunizations, preventive checks, pre-operative clearance, wart treatment and sports injuries. No drop-ins.
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