Carson City
Klaich Animal Hospital in Reno proudly serves patients in Carson City and the surrounding neighborhood — close enough to be convenient, established enough to be the practice your neighbors already recommend.
Visiting from Carson City
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A full-service animal hospital is your pet's primary doctor, dentist, surgeon, and pharmacy in one place — wellness exams and vaccines, dental cleanings, spay and neuter, surgery, diagnostics, and care for the day something goes wrong. Keeping it under one roof means one team knows your pet's history, which matters enormously when minutes count.
Outside the area? We'd still love to meet your pet. Plenty of clients make the trip and tell us it's worth it.
What sets the Carson City visit apart
Wellness Exams
Nose-to-tail checkups that catch problems early. The single most valuable thing you can do for your pet.
Vaccinations
Core and lifestyle vaccines tailored to your pet's risk — not a one-size-fits-all bundle.
Spay & Neuter
Routine surgery with full pain control and monitoring. Best done at the right age for your pet's breed.
Dental Cleaning
Scaling, polishing, and a full oral exam with X-rays under safe anesthesia. Protects more than the teeth.
Directions from Carson City
Start in the heart of Carson City and head toward 1990 S Virginia St.
Follow the main avenue into Reno — we're just a few minutes from Carson City.
Look for Klaich Animal Hospital in Reno at 1990 S Virginia St; the entrance is easy to spot from the street.
Street parking and nearby garages are available, and we're a short walk from the closest transit stops.
What Carson City clients say
I have been taking my dog here for years, she sees Dr.(s) Bertucci and they’re fantastic. But today, while bringing her in for her annual lab work, I witnessed something I found to be marvelous and profoundly impressive. An entire family rushed in their injured dog who was clearly in distress, family members and children in tears, and the staff reacted so quickly, calmly and efficiently. Immediately got the dog and family back for care. The waiting room was packed, they’re handling emergencies, and still managed to squeeze my dog in for an additional vaccine she was due for despite it not being scheduled. Over the years I have particularly admired Janelle (pardon if the name is incorrect, she has dark hair and a warm smile). Everyone there is patient, kind and attentive. Highly recommend to anyone in the Reno area. Every single one of you is amazing! What you all do matters SO much.
We really like this veterinarian clinic, they have seen several of our pets over the years. We had to put down an old friend and they are the most professional, understanding, kind, patient and giving people. This one was hard for both of us and the staff did an excellent job handling our specific situation 👏 👍 thank you.
Love this vet. Never have an issue about getting my dog right in.
More about local business care in Carson City
Carson City pet owners often start looking for a veterinary hospital after a quote on a routine procedure, a dental, or a small surgery feels out of scale with the appointment they just had. Klaich Animal Hospital in Reno is the place many of those households drive to when they want preventative wellness and orthopedic or soft-tissue surgery under one roof, with options ranked before a yes. Downtown Carson City, East Carson City, North Carson City, and New Empire are all in the service area.
The philosophy on that drive is guidance, not pressure: necessary diagnostics stay distinct from optional screening, and a serious diagnosis is not delivered without the basic bloodwork that should sit underneath it. In-house tools include digital radiography, endoscopy, ultrasonography, laser therapy, and laboratory equipment, so a Carson City case does not have to collect pieces of a workup from three stops. Soft tissue surgery, hip dysplasia correction, cruciate ligament injuries, neurosurgery, and complex fracture repair are part of what Dr. Furman and Dr. Catterson already perform here.
Douglas County, Lyon County, Washoe County, and Reno sit on the same corridor, with some families also coming from Minden, Gardnerville, Fernley, or Dayton when the need is surgical rather than a vaccine clinic. Care is by appointment. Call (775) 826-1212 to talk through an estimate, a second opinion on a non-emergency, or senior care when the pet still looks okay at home but the labs do not.
Wellness Exams & Vaccinations
A wellness exam for a Carson City dog or cat is the visit to pin down vaccines, the physical exam, and which preventative lab work would actually change a decision. Annual totals in the several-hundreds range are a common worry locally. The chart after the visit should show what was done and what was offered as optional.
Orthopedic Surgery
Orthopedic surgery is a reason Carson City owners make the trip to Reno: cruciate repair, hip dysplasia surgery, and fracture repair stay in-house. The plan is reviewed with imaging before consent. If the injury can be stabilized and rechecked rather than operated the same week, that timeline is said out loud.
Veterinary Dentistry
Veterinary dentistry for Carson City pets includes dental surgery and the extraction questions that blow up an estimate. Skipping an anesthetic dental cleaning has medical consequences that should be explained, along with what can be managed in the meantime. Rescue and budget-conscious owners still get the same itemized sheet.
Urgent Care
Urgent care from Carson City is for the pet that cannot wait for the next wellness opening, with diagnostics in the same hospital. A second opinion should not delay a blocked cat or a collapsing senior. For everything else, time to think is part of good care.
Spay & Neuter
Spay and neuter from Carson City is scheduled surgery with a written estimate, aimed at owners who have already heard a wide spread of quotes around the capital. Ask what the invoice includes before you book the Reno appointment. Healthy pets can wait long enough for a comparison.
Soft Tissue Surgery
Soft tissue surgery on a small cyst or similar finding should not default to a multi-thousand-dollar specialist stack when a straightforward removal is the medical plan. Informed consent for Carson City clients lists what is urgent, what is cosmetic, and what can be watched. You are not choosing between pay-in-full and being a bad owner.
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is an advanced procedure this hospital performs when the Carson City case has the neurologic signs and imaging to match. The talk covers realistic outcomes before anyone books a last-resort operation. Records go with you if you want another clinic to review the same films.
Veterinary Diagnostics
Diagnostics for Carson City pets can include bloodwork, digital radiography, ultrasound, and endoscopy without sending the workup out first. Multi-thousand-dollar imaging and biopsy packages are explained as what they can and cannot guarantee. No diagnosis is promised by a price.
Pain Management & Laser Therapy
Pain management and laser therapy give Carson City seniors and post-op pets a path that is not automatically another surgery. Comfort care is described in terms of function at home. If laser will not change the disease, that limit is part of the visit.
Senior Pet Care
Senior pet care from Carson City includes preventative lab work and the conversation when a pet looks playful but the panel is not. Clinics that jump to euthanasia without bloodwork are a known local fear. Here the sequence is exam, evidence, then options, including an unhurried end-of-life talk when that is the honest path.
Parasite Prevention
Parasite prevention for Carson City households is built into preventative care, with heartworm and fecal tests recommended against the pet's history. Products are not stacked because a wellness visit is underway. You can keep a prevention plan and still say no to unrelated screening.
Veterinary Pharmacy
After the Carson City-to-Reno appointment, the online pharmacy covers pharmaceuticals, prescription diets, and supplements so chronic care is not a monthly drive for every refill. Diabetes or epilepsy monitoring stays on the cadence already agreed. New tests are not bundled into a refill.
Frequently Asked Questions — Carson City
If I live in Carson City, can I get a second opinion at Klaich before agreeing to surgery?
Yes, on non-emergencies a pause for a second opinion is invited, and you can bring records from another clinic. Urgent problems such as a blockage still need timely care, and that is said separately from elective surgery. The plan you hear here is ranked by urgency with decline paths.
What should I ask before expensive diagnostics if I am driving up from Carson City?
Ask what decision each test will change, what it costs as its own line, and what happens if you decline it. Imaging, biopsy, and specialist-level workups do not come with a guaranteed diagnosis. Itemized estimates exist so you are not agreeing to a stack you cannot see.
How do you talk about euthanasia with Carson City owners of declining seniors?
The clinic treats euthanasia as care. Options, including pain management and staging, come first so the decision is not a guilt close. Families who have been through it describe the staff as understanding and patient.
Do Carson City pets need a health certificate through this hospital?
Health certificates are a service some veterinary hospitals provide around travel and paperwork. Ask at scheduling whether that document is what you need, and whether a wellness exam has to sit underneath it. The visit is still by appointment.
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