Bodega Bay Veterinary Hospital

Specialties

We are a full-​service veterinary hospital offering health maintenance, diagnostics, medical care, and surgery for companion animals. Dr. Michael Trapani offers 30 years of veterinary practice experience. Our brand new facility is small but outfitted with state-​of-​the-​art equipment to provide high quality care for your pets with a personable, small town style. Dr. Trapani is our only veterinarian; there’s never any question about which doctor you will be seeing.

Bodega Bay Veterinary Hospital provides services in an efficient, cost effective way that makes our prices competitive — and often quite a bit lower — than big, impersonal veterinary hospitals.

Have you received a $ 3,500 quote for surgery on your pet? Maybe you should call us. Dr. T’s 30 years experience as a veterinary surgeon allows him to provide care that others must refer to much more costly providers. Bodega Bay Veterinary Hospital — It’s worth the drive!

History

Established in 2011.

Dr. Michael Trapani opened and operated his first veterinary hospital in Grass Valley, CA for over 20 years. When changing life circumstances allowed him to relocate to Bodega Bay, he searched for six years before a suitable location became available for his new practice. Bodega Bay Veterinary Hospital was constructed in 2011 and finally opened its doors in September of that year.

Meet the Business Owner

Michael T.

Business Owner

Dr. Michael Trapani earned his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from U.C. Davis in 1982 and opened his first veterinary hospital in 1985. Dr. T. considers himself something of a dinosaur, a holdover from a time when the only veterinary specialists were at the university. With no big-​city specialty centers available, rural practitioners of Dr. T’s generation had to handle difficult cases on their own. This often meant performing procedures that contemporary veterinarians routinely refer to specialists because, in those days, the only other option was euthanasia. The great majority of those patients did well and Dr. T’s current patients continue to benefit from that experience.

Compassionate caring for animals requires a veterinarian to have compassion for the human owners of those animals when difficult decisions must be made about a pet’s disease or the need for euthanasia. Dr. T. understands that an ideal solution to an animal’s illness is worthless if it requires something that the