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  • Welcome to Our Clinic

    We are a full service animal hospital providing preventive/interventive and individualized care
  • Our Mission

    Keep animal companions happy, healthy and pain-free for as long as absolutely possible.
  • Empathy, excellence and enthusiasm.

    We measure our success by the enhanced life-stage health of our patients and subsequent satisfaction of their owners

About Us

We are a full service animal hospital providing preventive, interventive and individualized care. This includes internal medicine, surgery, dentistry, digital X-ray imaging, parasite prevention programs, nutritional consultation and all-life-stage care. Emergency, critical care and housecall services are available. Our mission is to keep animal companions happy, healthy and pain-free for as long as possible. We promote wellness and client education, tirelessly, to this end goal. We provide and ensure a beneficial health care service to family pets and their people, as well as animals in distress. Our service is delivered with integrity, empathy and ability, by a dedicated team of complementary skilled individuals. Our clientele will leave our establishment with the confident knowledge that they received excellent value in terms of animal health care and customer satisfaction. We measure our success by the enhanced life-stage health of our patients and subsequent satisfaction of their owners. Empathy, excellence and enthusiasm are the engines of our success.

Welcome New Patients

New patients

Welcome to all our new clients! We are still developing our website, but for now, here are a few things you can expect when you visit us for the first time with your furry family members. We will always attempt to meet in a more relaxed manner than usual and take time to get to know and trust each other. Your first visit to us may not be in the easiest of circumstances.We understand. Here are a few things you can expect when you first visit us. Click here to fill out or Intake form and send responses via email. Click here to download a printable version of the intake form, fill out and bring with you on your visit.

We are now accepting new patients

Call us today to arrange a meet and greet with our staff and your pets

What's New?

Happenings at the Centre

Creature Comforts

PPH welcomes your kind donations of older used towels, grandma’s old afghans, well loved blankets and comforters. They can enjoy a continued loving existence while caring for our patients. 

Will sit for treats

Sitting Pretty!

Handsome Tango! What a lovely guy! Loyal and loves liver treats. Thanks for a fun visit!

Good Dogs

Attention to Details!

Luna likes the shelf cat in exam room 1! So intently focused!

Our Team

Nice to meet you

Dr. Shirleen Guest
Shirleen Guest, DVM, B.Sc.

  Returning to her home province after years in Ontario, Dr. Guest has been practicing full-time veterinary medicine for 22+ years. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, PEI in 1996, preceded by a Bachelor of Science degree from Acadia University, Wolfville, NS in 1992. Having grown up in Bakers Settlement, Dr. Guest has deep roots to the South Shore and recently settled in Petite Rivière.  She purchased the building at 15 Petite Rivière Road, previously known as “Second Chances,” where she will launch her second Veterinary practice.  Although she refers to herself as “just a local girl,” Dr. Guest is a globally diverse thinker and visionary.  She brings a wealth of expertise not only in the Veterinary practicum, but has a keen business sense and entrepreneurial nature.  She has a strong work ethic that comes from a central core of empathy and dedication to relieving animal distress.  Petite Pet Hospital’s mission statement is to “keep animal companions happy, healthy and pain-free for as long as possible".

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    Petite Pet Vet & Wellness Centre

    15 Petite Riviere Rd

    Petite Riviere Bridge

    Nova Scotia B4V 5X5

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