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Established in a small shopping center in 1977 as a one doctor office, CORAL SPRINGS ANIMAL HOSPITAL has experienced dramatic growth, outgrowing three buildings before moving into its new state of the art 40,000 square foot hospital in November 2008. It has grown to become one of the largest, highly respected, and most sophisticated animal hospitals in the United States.

It is only by consistently meeting or exceeding the varying needs and desires of the large majority of the pet owning public that we have been able to achieve this explosive growth. We have earned a reputation for ethical and professional state of the art veterinary care, friendly and responsive customer service, and fair professional fees (in writing, in advance).

CORAL SPRINGS ANIMAL HOSPITAL is a general primary care practice, a specialty practice with board certified veterinary specialists, and a emergency/critical care hospital open and staffed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Our emergency/critical care department is equivalent to an emergency department in a human hospital. Since we are staffed 24/7, there is no need to wait for a call back from our Doctors in an emergency as well as no delays in providing emergency surgical procedures, diagnostic testing and obtaining results.

In addition to serving pet owners, CORAL SPRINGS ANIMAL HOSPITAL regularly receives case referrals from over 600 local veterinarians in the tri-county area, and from veterinarians as far away as Jacksonville, Key West and Naples.

CORAL SPRINGS ANIMAL HOSPITAL is the exclusive provider for the Broward Sheriffs Canine Bomb Squad, the Broward Sheriffs Office Animal Neglect and Abuse Division, and a major provider of services to Victims of Domestic Violence (DV Care) and other Broward County City Police Departments.
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Carlos loved to listen to Dean Martin whilst having a good comb after his bath.

When Carlos was born, it was apparent that he faced physical challenges and he was taken from his mother at two weeks old to ensure his survival. As he developed he exhibited neurological and physical problems that included a physical disability with his legs and feet, and he had epileptic type seizures. It was very apparent that Carlos was a special little character who needed constant care and attention.

We had a full range of tests done with the istance of Veterinary Specialist, Radiology and a consultant Neurological Pediatric specialist. Many of the tests carried out have been part of an elimination program to ensure he was not given inappropriate drugs for his condition.

These tests had eliminated all known or common physical problems that could have occurred. We have results from blood tests, x-ray’s, ultrasounds and his full MRI brain scan. Our specialist vet has researched and been in contact with ociates around the world about Capuchin monkeys. There is a huge amount of interest worldwide in the results we have available to us, especially the ultrasound pictures and MRI Scan’s. Due to costs, these type of tests are not traditionally run by people with monkeys as pets, of which there are 10’s of thousands worldwide, or by zoo’s around the world. Also not many people or zoo’s can commit the amount of human resource that has been required to care-give this one little monkey.

We would like to make all our information, tests results, scans and images available worldwide to aid in education and primate knowledge.
He had been on Epilim. His progress had been constantly monitored. The drugs have helped mainly with his manic/neurotic behaviour. The seizures seem to be approximately 14 days apart. Normally these seizures last for about 2-4 minutes. Once he was he was taken to the vets after fitting for approx 20 minutes. He spent the weekend heavily sedated. The main concern is that these long seizures will “burn” the brain.

To take over full time care we needed to first relocated (Martinborough was our destination) purchase and build a MAF approved containment facility to enable us to permanently house Carlos. To do this in NewZealand you must get a zoo license. We understood that Carlos may not survive for very long, however, as a capuchin’s life span could be up to 40 years in captivity he may live longer . He was adorable.

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Dr. Wayne Whitney with Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists removes a bone fragment from Boogie’s elbow via arthroscopy.

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