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About Us
Morgan Veterinary is a full-service veterinary medical facility, located in Coos Bay, Oregon. The professional and courteous staff at Morgan Veterinary seeks to provide the best possible medical care, surgical care and dental care for their highly-valued patients. We are committed to promoting responsible pet ownership, preventative health care and health-related educational opportunities for our clients. Morgan Veterinary strives to offer excellence in veterinary care to Coos Bay, Oregon and surrounding areas. Please take a moment to contact us today, to learn more about our veterinary practice and to find our more information about how Morgan Veterinary can serve the needs of you and your cherished pet.
Since 1965
Lost/Found a pet? Call Coos County Animal Shelter 541-269-2312
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Avery
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I didn't do it
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Honeybear
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She's a little princess
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Dusty
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Daisy Doodle Dog
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Liza
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Fleetwood Farms "Little Liza"
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Baylee
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Daisy
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Boy George
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Tinker
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Boarding
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We will treat your pet like our own!
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Christmas Tree
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Every year Dr. Karl raises money for the Annual Rotary Christmas Tree Auction. We also gather donations for Coos County Animal Shelter for presents under the tree. The money we raise for the tree goes to Coos Bay Rotary and lots of great products such as science diet food, frontline, revolution, & advantage multi goes to the animal shelter! Way to go Dr. Karl!!
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Dental
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Large Animal
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Animal Shelter
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We help Coos County Animal Shelter by donating items and pet food. Also, our great clients drop off things to be donated. We also help with the animals medicals needs on occasion.
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Adoptions
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Abandoned animals are given full medical exams, vaccines & spayed/neutered. If they have other medical needs those are taken care of as well. We ask for a donation to Rotary as the adoption fee.
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Exotic Pets
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Did you know we treat birds, reptiles and other exotic animals?
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Critical Care
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Did you know we offer chemotherapy?
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Karl Jernstedt
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ViewGraduated before the turn of the century from Washington State University. We have been here in Coos Bay for some 20 years now.
Previously we have a deep and abiding interest in patient wellness, now our focus is prevention and improved quality of life. Exciting improvements in diagnosis and i...
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Karen
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I am a junior at Oregon State studying zoology with a pre-vet option and will be applying to OSU's vet school this fall. I first started helping veterinarians when I was 12 years old and have been volunteering and working on and off at a local vet clinic since high school.
I love working with anima...
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Jaclyn
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Susan
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Jessica
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ViewI am a Certified Veterinary Technician and I have more than 10 years experience in the veterinary field.
I have owned trained horses most of my life.
I currently own 5 horses (3 quarter horses 2 paints) and 5 dogs (3 German Shepherds Dogs, 1 Heeler/Shepherd mix, and 1 Chihuahua mix).
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8:30am-5:30pm |
| Tuesday |
8:30am-5:30pm |
| Wednesday |
8:30am-5:30pm |
| Thursday |
8:30am-5:30pm |
| Friday |
8:30am-5:30pm |
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Closed |
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Dr. Karl is available for emergency care 24 hours. Please call 541-269-5846.
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News
December 2011 - January 2012
Salmon Poisoning Disease
This is a disease only of Canines, which include dogs, wolves, foxes, and coyotes. In order to get the disease Canines must eat raw infected salmonid fish or other species of an anadromous fish (swim upstream to breed). The disease is the result of an infection with Neorickettsia Helminthoeca. This single cell organism is in small flukes named Nanophyetes Salmoncola that are a parasite of the fish. Not all of the fish are infected; it depends on their early life environments. Freezing, cooking, heat smoking, and some forms of curing (fish eggs with Borax) can kill the organisms in the fish tissue. Normally, the eggs are released into the intestine of the host animal, often raccoons. Those fluke eggs that reach fresh water and infect fresh water snails that are in turn eaten by smolts (young fish). Our dogs are “dead end host” for the most part for the flukes. These same flukes are the major cause of gastrointestinal disease in the process. Later in the disease process the microscopic fluke eggs are observable in the dogs stool sample with the aid of a microscope.
Common symptoms of Salmon Poisoning start with lack of appetite, then a fever, rectal temperature of 104 to 107 (normally 101.5) usually followed by vomiting, general weakness, swollen lymph nodes, and dehydration. Most dogs die IF they are not treated. With early care most dogs are treated on an outpatient basis (at home). If the patient’s clinical signs and history are consistent with the beginning of the disease process they are given an injection of an antihelmintic (worm medicine to kill the flukes) and started on antibiotics to kill Rickettsia organism. Most of the time a baseline CBC (complete blood count) is often performed at the start of therapy. Often within 48 hours after the onset of early therapy, the patients are reported to be “back to normal” but home therapy must continue until the Veterinarian says it can be discontinued. Keeping on the therapy for the prescribed time is to prevent relapses and resistant organisms from developing. When the patient becomes dehydrated, depressed, and/or is vomiting uncontrollably, the ability to treat at home is gone. Successful treatment at this stage of the disease depends on intravenous fluid therapy, antihelmitics, and antibiotics. This requires hospitalization and critical care support. As the disease progresses it becomes harder and more involved to treat. A situation that obviously decreases the pets chances for survival. What each patient needs for treatment is similar and yet it is unique, depending on your pet’s individual immune system, its age, the amount of organisms the patient received and other concurrent health care needs and concerns.
Urban legend suggests that once a dog is infected it is immune from the disease. This, for the most part, is true, but recent evidence suggests that there may be more than one strain of the disease. An infection with one strain may or may not provide immunity to the other strains. In addition, dogs treated early in the disease process may not have enough time or exposure to develop full immunity.
Another urban legend is that wild fish are less likely to have the disease than are hatchery-raised fish. This is in theory a sound proposal since the fish hatched and partially reared in captivity are likely raised and released under the circumstances that make ideal conditions for the snails and the raccoons, which propagate the fluke life cycle normally.
To prevent the disease, dogs need to avoid contact with uncooked Salmonoid and Anadromous fish species. The disease is fairly common during peak seasons of fishing, fish migration, and spawning. Each of the Veterinary clinics up down the Pacific coast and western Cascade Mountains can have several cases of this disease each week. Most dogs, especially with prompt treatment, respond quickly, get well soon, and do have some immunity for the future.
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The primary advantages are a more rapid onset and a quicker recovery. Whether or not that is worth the higher cost depends on the type of cases you have (exotics, outpatient procedures, etc).
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