Ladera Ranch Animal Hospital (LRAH) is a full service veterinary medical facility, located here in Ladera Ranch.

The staff at LRAH strive to provide the best possible medical care, surgical care, and dental care for their highly-valued patients.

Dr. Angele Sumpter, Dr. Kaytee Brenes, and the rest of the staff (photo on right) are committed to providing preventative health care, early detection, and health-related educational opportunities.

Our mission statement is to provide high quality pet health and wellness services to assist your pet in living a longer, happier, healthier life.

We believe that a key element to a healthy pet is a great relationship with your veterinarian.

We also strive to provide our clients with access to leading-edge products and services, and we are dedicated to the highest standards in veterinary medicine.

Ladera Ranch Animal Hospital offers a wide variety of different veter-inary services, including but not limited to: soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, dentistry (including non-anesthetic dentistry), internal medicine, nutritional counseling, digital radiology and ultrasound imaging, immunization and wellness care, behavioral medicine, and boarding and bathing.

In the coming month of October, we are offering a dental special, in which we will be discounting 20% off all dental services.

This is a great oppor-tunity to help keep your pet’s teeth and mouth healthy and free from infection, as dental problems are among the most common causes of disease in household pets.

In addition, we also offer a staff-supervised puppy playtime every Sunday afternoon from 2:00 to 3:00 pm.

Healthy puppies under the age of four months are invited to join in our "Puppy Sunday Social," where they can learn appropriate socialization skills through interaction with other puppies as well as humans in a clean and safe environment.

This is also a great opportunity for owners to come with questions, and receive advice from our knowledgeable staff.

Beau and Daisy, shown at the top of this column, benefited greatly from this socialization when they were under four months in age.

Please take a moment to contact the Ladera Ranch Animal House for any questions, or to schedule a tour.