ORCA Vet

Last week, we had the privilege of welcoming Dr. Lindsay Parker, Board Certified Veterinary Anesthesiologist, to ORCA for a week of advanced anesthesia and critical care collaboration 🫀🐾

From complex anesthetic cases to arterial line placement and advanced monitoring, our team spent the week learning, growing, and refining skills alongside an incredible specialist.

We’re big believers that great medicine never stops evolving — and neither do we.

You can learn more about Dr. Parker and our collaboration with FiO2 Veterinary Anesthesia & Analgesia Services through her bio on our website via the link in our bio ✨

More adorable faces that came to see us at ORCA 😍🐾💙 These are some of the patients we had the privilege of caring for last August.

From orthopedic procedures like TPLOs and MPL repairs to CT imaging, internal medicine workups, ultrasounds, and everything in between, every patient brought their own story and journey through our doors.

We love getting to be a small part of these patients’ lives and helping them on the road back to feeling their best 🩵

Laser beams? At ORCA? 👀⚡️
Not quite shark-with-lasers level… but we are excited to welcome our new surgical cutting laser to the pod.

From procedures like TECAs to BOAS surgeries, this technology gives us another tool that may improve precision, reduce bleeding in certain procedures, and support patient comfort and recovery.

Advanced tools + skilled hands + lots of patient snuggles = ORCA vibes 💙🐋

At the end of the day… same message, same goal: helping your pet heal comfortably and keeping those incisions looking beautiful 💙🐾

(Yes, we know the cone is temporarily ruining their aesthetic.)

🐋🫍🐳 Pod Announcement 🐳🫍🐋

We’re excited to share that our Practice Manager, Amanda, has been nominated for Trupanion’s Veterinary Professional of the Year Award ❤️

While we may be a little biased, anyone who knows Amanda knows the impact she has had on our team, our patients, our clients, and the veterinary community as a whole. From mentoring and advocating for RVTs, to supporting team growth, championing patient comfort and pain management, and helping create the culture that makes ORCA what it is today — she puts her whole heart into everything she does.

One of Amanda’s biggest goals has always been creating a workplace where veterinary professionals feel supported, valued, and able to thrive, because better team care means better patient care.

We’re incredibly proud to see her recognized, and if you’d like to help celebrate her, we’d love your support with a vote ❤️

https://vetappreciationday.trupanion.com/nominations/517443d6-3f1c-41b0-929c-22070537fc37?vv=2&shareToken=91b3003e-bcb1-4d85-88f2-ef0210bfd1c3

Vote for Amanda B, RVT, CVPP | Veterinary Appreciation Day Awards Support Amanda B, RVT, CVPP of ORCA Orthopedic And Referral Centre For Animals, NANAIMO in the 2026 Veterinary Appreciation Day Awards. Read their story and celebrate the veterinary professionals caring for pets every day.

From tiny splint changes to big orthopedic adventures, these were some of the sweet faces that came through the ORCA pod between July and September 🐾💙

Over the past year, we’ve had the privilege of caring for patients needing everything from CT imaging and specialty diagnostics to fracture repairs, TECA surgeries, and post-operative rehabilitation. Some cases were complex, some were straightforward, and some — like one very cute little kitten with a non-surgical fracture — just needed time, patience, and lots of careful splint changes while healing.

Every patient who walks through our doors becomes part of the pod for a little while, and getting to follow their journeys is one of the best parts of what we do.

We’re happy to report that all of these furry friends are doing well 🩵

Thank you to their families and referring veterinarians for trusting us with their care.

It’s been a full few months over here in all the ways that matter most.

We’ve been busy supporting our patients, our team, and the work that happens behind the scenes every day.

And there’s a lot we’ve been meaning to share 🐳 🤍

Thanks for being here… even when we’ve been a little quiet 🥹 Stay tuned - we’ve got some catching up to do 🤩