pet wellness with a purpose to help
families care for the pets that they
love. Dr. McEndree’s dedicated staff
gives their all to provide comprehen-
sive preventive and wellness veteri-
nary services for every stage in your
pet’s life, from puppy to senior pet.
For Dr. McEndree, he’s proud to be a
vet and in a profession where a help-
ing hand is always there.
“I am very proud to be in a
profession where veterinarians and
their staff are willing to give 100
percent of themselves to help animals
that cannot help themselves. I see
them go above and beyond over and
over,” he said. Dr. McEndree is also
extremely proud of the way veterinar-
ians rally round one another when
there is a need.
“I have seen countless times
when one veterinarian has helped
another by loaning equipment
or taking on extra shifts to help
when illness or injury occurs,” he
explained.
Over the past 19 years, Dr.
McEndree has seen a lot in his long
career, with some of the most interest-
ing cases being with the animals he
has treated himself.
“I saved a mule from Equine
Eastern Encephalitis; I removed a
large thyroid tumor from a horse’s
neck; I have extracted many strange
foreign objects from dogs’ and cats’
intestinal tracts, including a $65,000
wedding ring. But my most memo-
rable experience was performing
open thoracic surgery on a 12-week-
old puppy that had a birth defect on
its aortic artery exiting the heart. That
dog is 13 years old now. When I first
began practicing, I kept a notebook
and wrote down interesting cases,
but that soon became over-
whelming because there
were so many memorable
stories of pets and their
owners. Many have become
my friends,” he explained.
His most unusual pet
story comes from his own
pet, an orange-haired dog
that he acquired as a “thank
you” for saving his life during
a C-section.
“He was very lovable
and very mischievous,” Dr.
McEndree recalled fondly.
“He was more like a cat
with nine lives. Because of
his antics, he only had three
legs, not to mention many
surgeries, blood transfu-
sions and treatments. While
he was a cherished family
member, we often wondered
what he was going to get
himself into next. We were
lucky to have him for so
long until he passed away from liver
cancer at 14.5 years old.”
Dr. McEndree fondly recalls a
heartwarming story involving a stray
dog brought to the clinic by a good
Samaritan that had a great outcome
for the pet owners.
“We scanned the dog for a
microchip and was lucky to [find]
one. We contacted the microchip
company to get the owner’s informa-
tion and called them. They were an
elderly couple traveling from Florida
to California for their granddaugh-
ter’s wedding and their little dog
had gotten away from them while
they had stopped in this area. They
could not miss the wedding and had
to leave their little pet behind. We
assured them that we would care
for their pet until they could return.
Seeing the reunion gave us great joy
and we were so glad that story had a
happy ending,” he said.
Dr. McEndree and the amazing
staff at Clear Fork Veterinary Clinic
obviously go above and beyond to
help out their smallest patients while
offering a wide variety of services
including wellness exams, vaccina-
tions and pain management, along
with boarding, micro-chipping,
heartworm/flea products and home
delivery for prescription food and
medicine.
For more information about Dr.
McEndree and his clinic, go to cfvet-
clinic.com.
I-20 Animal Hospital
Dr. Randy Langerhans, Bringing 24/7 Care To Your Favorite Furry Family Member
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-20 Animal Hospital in Hudson Oaks is a 24-hour
animal hospital that provides pet care at a high level.
Hospital founder Dr. Randy Langerhans has been involved
in full-service pet medicine for more than 40 years in the
area. After practicing 35 years in west Fort Worth, he relo-
cated and established another 24/7 hospital.
“I just always felt that everyone’s “other family member”
deserved the availability of a hospital that can provide
24-hour diagnostics, surgery, and emergency and critical
care,” Dr. Langerhans said. I-20 Animal Hospital is the
only fully staffed around-the-clock care facility between
DFW and Albuquerque, NM.
Although we provide routine and preventative health
care, the hospital’s forte is emergency medicine and the
more difficult and involved health problems. “There are
not many conditions we cannot provide the diagnostics,
treatment, and care with the knowledgeable and skillful
staff we have,” Langerhans said. Emergency and critical