Cheam View Veterinary Hospital

Veterinary work in Chilliwack covers two jobs that are barely the same profession. One is companion-animal practice, concentrated along Vedder Road and in the downtown, doing what clinics do anywhere for a city of ninety-odd thousand people. The other is large-animal and farm practice, which exists here at a scale it does not elsewhere in the Lower Mainland, because the municipality holds more than 700 farms and is the largest dairy-producing area in British Columbia. Bovine, equine and poultry work runs out of ambulatory practices covering Greendale, Rosedale, Yarrow and Ryder Lake. Both kinds appear on this list.

No phone number, website or street address is published, so there is no way to know what species are seen, whether new patients are being taken, or what the after-hours arrangement is. Those three questions are much better answered before an animal needs seeing than during. Costs also vary a great deal between practices and are a fair thing to raise on a first call. The postal code above will place a map in the right part of Chilliwack Proper, and after that a number posted at the door is the usual fallback for a clinic that does not publish one.