A small clinic, a working truck, and one veterinarian who answers his own phone.
Dr. Hal Rasmussen has practiced in Cedar Creek for thirty-eight years. Small animal in the morning, herd checks and horse calls in the afternoon, and the after-hours line rings to his cell. We're not the biggest clinic in the county. We're the one your neighbor's grandfather used.
Same building. Same family. Same phone number.
Roughly half small animal, half large animal.
Dairy, equine, sheep, and goat — within 30 miles.
Across 142 reviews from clients and farmers.
Mixed practice means we go where the animal is.
Small Animals
Dogs, cats, the occasional pet rabbit. Morning hours run on appointments at the clinic on Highland Road.
- Wellness & Vaccines
- Annual exams, puppy and kitten series, lifestyle-tailored vaccine protocols. We don't over-vaccinate.
- Dental Cleaning
- Full-mouth cleaning under anesthesia with digital dental x-rays.
- Minor Surgery
- Spays, neuters, lump removals, bladder stones, foreign-body retrieval.
- Diagnostics
- In-house bloodwork, fecal, urinalysis, IDEXX SNAPs, digital x-ray.
- After-hours Emergencies
- The office line forwards to Dr. Hal's cell. He triages — most things wait til morning, some don't.
Large Animals
Dairy herd work, horses, sheep, and goats. Afternoons usually run on farm calls within a 30-mile radius of town.
- Dairy Herd Work
- Scheduled herd checks, pregnancy diagnosis, DA correction, mastitis, calf scours, vaccination programs.
- Equine Farm Calls
- Coggins, dentals with a power float, lameness eval, vaccination, basic field colic workup.
- Sheep & Goat
- Small-ruminant medicine, FAMACHA scoring, hoof work, breeding soundness exams.
- On-farm Euthanasia
- For the animals you can't load. We come to you.
Three of us, and a Border Collie named Mack.
DVM, UW–Madison 1985. Lives outside town with Linda. Mack is 9 and rides shotgun on every farm call.
UW Extension home economist before Hal asked her to fill in for a week in 1991. She knows every client by their pet's name.
RVT, Madison College 2016. Grew up cleaning kennels. Came back after four years in Madison — said she missed the calf work.
Plain numbers, not a quote system.
We bill at the time of service. We take cash, check, all the cards, and we'll take a postdated check from a farmer we know.
Who answers the phone at 11 PM on a Sunday.
The office line forwards to Dr. Hal's cell after 5:30 PM and on weekends. There's no answering service. There's no overnight call center. The phone rings to him.
He triages on the call. Most things — a dog that ate something stupid, a cat with a sore foot — wait til the clinic opens in the morning. Some things don't. If it's a small-animal emergency that genuinely can't wait, he refers to Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Center in Waukesha (24-hour ER) or BluePearl Glendale (45 minutes south).
For a dairy calf that's down or a horse colicking, he'll meet you at the clinic or come to the farm on a Sunday. That's the job.
After-hours partner clinics
412 Highland Road, Cedar Creek.
Cedar Creek, WI 53012
Park anywhere on Highland or in the lot on the south side. The entrance is the red door under the awning. If the F-250 isn't parked out front, Dr. Hal is on a farm call.
Towns we serve:
Within 30 miles by default. We'll go farther for an existing client.