Avian and Exotic Animal Medicine
with a passion!
with a passion!
Referrals
Diagnosis
Veterinarians interested in getting a more complete diagnostic picture of their patient may chose to refer clients to us. We offer our in house lab services, external lab services, endoscopy, ultrasound, and surgery. Please call for a consultation or to make an appointment for your client. Please fax all records to us before the appointment and bring all radiographs with you (otherwise we may need to repeat them).
Please print and fill out the referral sheet , then fax it to us before sending your client to us.
Cardiac Ultrasound appointments are available through Chicago Exotics in conjunction with Dr. Kirsten Pieper Street, DVM.
Acupuncture and Chiropractic Medicine for Exotics
Veterinarians interested in getting a more complete diagnostic picture of their patient may chose to refer clients to us. We offer our in house lab services, external lab services, endoscopy, ultrasound, and surgery. Please call for a consultation or to make an appointment for your client. Please fax all records to us before the appointment and bring all radiographs with you (otherwise we may need to repeat them).
Please print and fill out the referral sheet , then fax it to us before sending your client to us.
Cardiac Ultrasound appointments are available through Chicago Exotics in conjunction with Dr. Kirsten Pieper Street, DVM.
Acupuncture and Chiropractic Medicine for Exotics
Dr. Strat performing acupuncture on a rabbit
aqua-pressure in a rat
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aqua-pressure in a tortoise.
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Dr. Street and Rachel ultrasound examining Kermit the opossum
Dr. Strat is available every other Friday for veterinary acupuncture and chiropractic work. Doctor Horton highly recommends her services.
We also recommend the Ness Wellness Center for exotic animal chiropractic care, acupuncture, and herbal medicine. We've worked with Dr. Ness for many years and our clients have wonderful things to say about him.
All consultations with in house specialty groups occur as a drop-off visit after one of the Chicago Exotics veterinarians has examined the animal and created a treatment plan with the client.
Ultrasound
Introducing a more complete diagnostic picture for avian and exotic animals available at Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital. We give you the opportunity to provide the best possible diagnostic picture for your clients, which will lead to the best possible plan of action for your patients. Chicago Exotics offer the avian and exotic consultation, handling, and ICU. Our trained veterinarians and referral specialists offer the diagnostic ultrasound procedures. Together we can help you create your therapeutic plan.
For cardiac (thoracic) and abdominal work-ups, we work with Dr. Kirsten Pieper Street, DVM by appointment is available to examine your ferret, rabbit, guinea pig or any exotic animal and perform an echocardiogram. She travels to our hospital with her color flow Doppler ultrasound machine, the key to diagnosing and characterizing so many cardiac disorders. Complete cardiac diagnostics are available including ultrasound with colorflow doppler, Band M mode imaging, and ECG. Chicago Exotics provides all of the handling and management of these critters. This appointment is done by drop off and will require the entire day.
Kirsten Pieper Street wanted to be a veterinarian from the time she was 4 years old. She received her veterinary degree from the University of Illinois in 1994. Ultrasound was a very new technology in veterinary medicine at that time, but from her first days of clinical practice, Dr. Street felt a calling, using her first clinic’s equine ultrasound machine to image dogs and cats. Dr. Street began her mobile ultrasound service, U/S To You, in 2005. She has been doing mobile ultrasound full-time since 2016. She began imaging for Chicago Exotics team in 2018. Dr. Street loves the variety and challenge of imaging the exotic pets. The most “exotic” critter she has ever ultrasounded is a full-grown African lioness.
Ultrasound provides a less invasive alternative for abdominal disease evaluation. This means together we can thoroughly work up ferret, rabbit, and guinea pig heart disease. We can evaluate animals for neoplastic metastases to abdominal organs prior to surgery or observe renal disease associated with rabbit urinary tract disease. We also offer ultrasound guided biopsies.
We see hamsters and other small fuzzies, too. Reptiles can have their gonads, liver and kidney evaluated. For the avian patient, cardiac diagnostics are available. We can also help you evaluate the reproductive tract, look for tumors, and check out the liver. We are trying current techniques on fish and amphibians. Let us know if you're interested!
The doctors at Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital have years of valuable experience and knowledge in the veterinary care and husbandry of reptiles, birds, rabbits, ferrets, other small mammals and marsupials, as well as ostriches, emus, and fish. They taken many specialized courses in avian and exotic diagnostics, medicine, surgery, endoscopy, and ultrasound. Together they will help you get an accurate diagnoses and formulate an appropriate therapeutic plan.
We also recommend the Ness Wellness Center for exotic animal chiropractic care, acupuncture, and herbal medicine. We've worked with Dr. Ness for many years and our clients have wonderful things to say about him.
All consultations with in house specialty groups occur as a drop-off visit after one of the Chicago Exotics veterinarians has examined the animal and created a treatment plan with the client.
Ultrasound
Introducing a more complete diagnostic picture for avian and exotic animals available at Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital. We give you the opportunity to provide the best possible diagnostic picture for your clients, which will lead to the best possible plan of action for your patients. Chicago Exotics offer the avian and exotic consultation, handling, and ICU. Our trained veterinarians and referral specialists offer the diagnostic ultrasound procedures. Together we can help you create your therapeutic plan.
For cardiac (thoracic) and abdominal work-ups, we work with Dr. Kirsten Pieper Street, DVM by appointment is available to examine your ferret, rabbit, guinea pig or any exotic animal and perform an echocardiogram. She travels to our hospital with her color flow Doppler ultrasound machine, the key to diagnosing and characterizing so many cardiac disorders. Complete cardiac diagnostics are available including ultrasound with colorflow doppler, Band M mode imaging, and ECG. Chicago Exotics provides all of the handling and management of these critters. This appointment is done by drop off and will require the entire day.
Kirsten Pieper Street wanted to be a veterinarian from the time she was 4 years old. She received her veterinary degree from the University of Illinois in 1994. Ultrasound was a very new technology in veterinary medicine at that time, but from her first days of clinical practice, Dr. Street felt a calling, using her first clinic’s equine ultrasound machine to image dogs and cats. Dr. Street began her mobile ultrasound service, U/S To You, in 2005. She has been doing mobile ultrasound full-time since 2016. She began imaging for Chicago Exotics team in 2018. Dr. Street loves the variety and challenge of imaging the exotic pets. The most “exotic” critter she has ever ultrasounded is a full-grown African lioness.
Ultrasound provides a less invasive alternative for abdominal disease evaluation. This means together we can thoroughly work up ferret, rabbit, and guinea pig heart disease. We can evaluate animals for neoplastic metastases to abdominal organs prior to surgery or observe renal disease associated with rabbit urinary tract disease. We also offer ultrasound guided biopsies.
We see hamsters and other small fuzzies, too. Reptiles can have their gonads, liver and kidney evaluated. For the avian patient, cardiac diagnostics are available. We can also help you evaluate the reproductive tract, look for tumors, and check out the liver. We are trying current techniques on fish and amphibians. Let us know if you're interested!
The doctors at Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital have years of valuable experience and knowledge in the veterinary care and husbandry of reptiles, birds, rabbits, ferrets, other small mammals and marsupials, as well as ostriches, emus, and fish. They taken many specialized courses in avian and exotic diagnostics, medicine, surgery, endoscopy, and ultrasound. Together they will help you get an accurate diagnoses and formulate an appropriate therapeutic plan.
