Gretchen Ham, DVM

Gretchen (she says it’s easier to go by first name instead of Dr. Ham) was recommended to me by a friend. Her practice is primarily equine oriented, so she’s regularly on the road going to farms and stables. But for dogs, treatments are done in her office. It is not a full service vet clinic. She doesn’t have a website, so you have to reach her by phone and usually just leave a message. She’s pretty quick to respond. Word of mouth brings in all the business she needs.
Gretchen is very laid back, easy to talk with, and have a laugh. Our cancer dog, Argo, adores her. She has a very calming presence, so even this human relaxes. ;) I’ve been taking Argo monthly for acupuncture and chiropractic therapy as an adjunct to the oncology treatments. He already had pre-​existing spinal problems (vertebral bridging) and other anatomical structural quirks from what looks like bad breeding. He is a rescue, so everything is a guess.
I was always wary of chiropractic, but kept an open mind. Glad I did because it has really helped Argo; he feels and moves better immediately after little adjustments to his neck and lumbar spine. Eventually the acupuncture benefit was almost zero, not helping with the pain anymore, so we stopped that modality. We may go back to it for healing, now that the leg was amputated this week after it broke and will be doing chemo instead of radiation/​pamidronate infusions. Those treatments did wonders for the bone pain. Definitely will be continuing with the chiro. He’s going to need his spine kept in good shape as he adapts to being a «tripawd».