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Welcome to Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital

We provide veterinary care for avian and exotic animals.

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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, Dr. Karen Kearns Dipl ACZM, Dr. Mary Grabowski, Dr. Deanne Strat, 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

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