The lobby is spacious and well lit by skylights and is divided into several seating areas to allow separation of species.

A cast, recycled glass panel divides the lobby. The grass motif was selected by the artist as grasses are at the bottom of the food chain yet provide shelter and bedding. A turtle and 3 butterflies can be seen.

Casts of actual sized animal tracks representing 22 species are embedded in the terrazzo floor of the lobby.

SMALL ANIMAL

There are nine examination rooms for small animal patients. One exam room is equipped with a one way mirror. The intent is to observe animals, for example, during breeding.

Small animal intensive care contains a unique design of cages with "service stations" to supply medical gases and house fluid pumps located adjacent to the cages. ICU is well equipped with monitoring equipment and is staffed by trained technicians.

The small animal medicine diagnostics room is used for collecting samples and performing a multitude of diagnostic procedures

There are also specialized exam rooms for performance of specific procedures such as endoscopy...

 ...and an electrically shielded room for performing neuro diagnostic tests such as electroencephalograpy (EEG)

The small animal nurses station is centrally located in relationship to the intensive care unit and the diagnostic rooms.

The dog kennel rooms have a baffle system in the ceiling to reduce noise in adjacent rooms. The cats are in a separate room from the dogs. Specialized wards are designed to house infectious patients, immune suppressed patients and those which are radioactive.

The small animal surgery suites are spacious to allow room for patient monitoring equipment and personnel. They can accommodate a large group to observe a  complicated surgery such as this open-heart procedure.

The grooming and physical therapy room contains a shower, deep tubs for swimming (patients) and a whirlpool.

The exotics ward has specialized cages to maintain a temperature appropriate for the species and to prevent escape of those unique patients including Napoleon the Merlin....

 and Iggy the iguana

and a resident ferret.

LARGE ANIMAL

The barns are light by several skylights.

EQUINE

The stall fronts are a heavy wire mesh for improved ventilation.

Mare-foal stalls allow for a separate, but close enclosure for the foal (bottom right). The entire stall is warmed with a radiant heater. The foal enclosure has a padded couch for recumbent foals.

ICU (intensive care unit) allows for treatment of critical patients.

There are several rooms in which to perform diagnostic tests including laparoscopy.

The induction stalls have padded walls. A ceiling mounted hoist is used to move the anesthetized horse to the surgery suite.

Following orthopedic surgery, horses are hoisted into this whirl pool. Water blunts limb movement to reduce damage to the repaired limb as the horse recovers. As the horse recovers a grated floor is slowly raised for gradual weight bearing.

An extensive system of chutes, gates and squeeze devices, assist in the directed movement of animals.

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