Welcome to Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital
We provide veterinary care for avian and exotic
animals.
See Contact for our
hours.
Exotic pets like rabbits, ferrets, reptiles, birds,
fish, hedgehogs, and guinea pigs have special care needs and
Chicago Exotics specializes in meeting those needs. We operate a
full service avian and exotic animal hospital featuring Dr. Susan
Horton and Dr. Shonali Jethani. Their extensive knowledge and expertise with exotic species
combines the best of personal and clinical experience.
Our hospital has the capability of serving all
sorts of animals from the smallest fish to the largest
reptiles. Our warm exotic ICU features avian incubators,
reptilian incubators (aquatic and not), fish and amphibian ICU
tanks, avian nebulizer unit, and inline oxygen for all
cages. Outside the warm room, we have comfortable cages for
all the soft fuzzy and not so fuzzy mammals and marsupials.
Our in house diagnostic capability includes full blood and
chemistry work, cytology, radiology, endoscopy, ultrasound,
and surgery. We offer the opportunity for
unique species to receive competent and compassionate veterinary
care. Cases are seen by appointment, but emergency patients
are gladly accepted as the need arises.
Our Care sheets section contains valuable information on caring for your
pet. If one of the doctors sent you to this website for a handout,
this is where you want to go.
Are you a vet looking for referral
information?
Are you interested in joining our team?
Take a look at our new job page.
Are you a new client who needs new
client or a reptile history
form? Please print then fill out these forms before your next visit and
bring them with. All other history forms will eventually be
included here, but for now you will have to fill them out at the
clinic. Please arrive 15 minutes early for your first
appointment so that we can enter all this information into the
computer.
Latest News
Feds Move To Ban Pythons & Boas
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has made a significant move
towards
banning the importation and interstate transport of Boa
Constrictors and
Pythons in the United States. Quietly published in the Federal
Register,
the agency is accepting public comments until April 30th. If
enacted
this will devastate an already hard hit industry, dealing a fatal
death
blow to a large number of businesses dependent on this segment of
the
industry.
Noted herpetologist, author, former zookeeper, and one of the
leading
private researchers and breeders of pythons in the United States,
David
Barker, had this to say...
This is the formal notification and request for public comments
regarding the intention of USF & W Service to place ALL snakes
in the
genera Boa, Python, and Eunectes on the Injurious Wildlife List of
the
Lacey Act.
If enacted as regulation, this will ban the importation of said
snakes
into the USA , and ban all interstate transportation of said
snakes.
There is a request made for public input and we feel it will be
very
important that all keepers with an interest in boas and pythons
make
written response before 30 April.
This is VERY important. Don't take this lightly.
Once the importation and inter-state transport has been banned,
there
will be a rapid exodus of breeders of these species, and
eventually they
will disappear from the marketplace along with a significant
number of
businesses and jobs.
To review the USF & W Service proposal, please look at the
following
document.
http://kingsnake.
com/FWSReview.
pdf
Please note that this is a .pdf file and requires Adobe Acrobat to
open
and read it.
West Nile Virus and your pet
Read more from the College of Veterinary Science here
and a FAQ
from the AVMA.
Wildlife
questions
Finding
injured or immature wildlife in your yard? Check
out this link for information on wildlife
rehabilitation and orphans.
Red
Door Animal Shelter
www.reddoorshelter.org
Avian
Flu
Avian
Flu has not come to the US yet, but we continue to receive
questions about it daily. I think the best way to protect
your birds is to practice clean husbandry and provide a healthy
living environment. As we find reliable information, it will be
posted here.
We
were recently on 190 North, a local TV show on ABC in
Chicago. Check out our feature at:
www.190north.com
Go to the archive section, we were on 11/13/05.
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Member of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians |
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Member of the Association of Avian Veterinarians |
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Member of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians |
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