Emergency Veterinary Clinic

For more than 50 years, Pender Veterinary Centre has been a place where pet owners bring their beloved animal friends to receive care from an established team of passionate, experienced veterinarians.

Today, Pender stands out amongst other animal care centers for its 24 hour, round-the-clock veterinary care, innovative and compassionate boarding and training, and for setting the highest standards for all veterinary teams through our philanthropic and development programs.Each month we see more than 8,000 dogs and cats here at Pender Veterinary Centre.

We are dedicated to providing quality veterinary care, pet support services and education with compassion and integrity. We take a Mayo Clinic style approach to your pet's medical well-being by involving as many doctors as necessary to get the best possible outcome for you and your pet.

We pride ourselves on being able to care for the vast majority of our patients' medical needs in-house, sparing you the time and expense of traveling to different places for diagnostics and additional office visits.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, "What do I demand of veterinary hospital and pet boarding facilities?" Probably not, but we do, and we have been asking ourselves this question for almost 50 years to ensure we have the best facilities of any veterinary and pet care service around.

Co-founder Dr. Powell is famous for saying that "our goal is to improve our level of service every year" and we continually invest in our equipment and facilities to be sure that we improve to exceed your expectations.Both Pender Veterinary Centre in Fairfax and our 6 acre Pet Retreat in Chantilly were custom designed, built, and outfitted to enhance our ability to care for your pet in an efficient, comfortable way.

At Pender, we take great pride in our team of dedicated, passionate professionals. Our veterinarians learn from the best veterinary trainers in the world as well as their peers and are encouraged to focus their knowledge and skills in areas where they have special interest.

The sum of these individual parts results in offering a large spectrum of veterinary services from exotic pet care and advanced diagnostics to complicated surgical procedures and trauma care.If you are passionate about serving people and their pets in a team atmosphere, then you have found your home and your new career.

During veterinary school, I realized my passion for client-patient relationships and communication. I dedicated myself to small animal general practice upon graduation. However, the joys of mentorship and sharing knowledge led me to become a clinician at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine for nearly four years.