Ocean Animal Hospital

Dr. Gabriel Young has practiced small animal veterinary surgery on four continents — Maui, Colorado, New Zealand, Australia, Bahrain, and Qatar, with extensive volunteer work in the Cook Islands, Samoa, and Fiji — and brought all of it to this family-owned Space Coast hospital after earning his degree in New Zealand in 2008. That international surgical experience shows in what the practice handles: ACL repair, cancer surgery, and femoral head and neck osteotomy, a hip procedure that removes the joint and lets the body form a new one from scar tissue, restoring pain-free movement for dogs and cats with dysplasia or severe fractures. Emergency care is treated as a priority, with staff meeting families at the door. Wellness examinations, vaccinations, dental cleanings, extractions, and oral surgery, dermatology, spay and neuter, laser therapy, digital radiology, ultrasound, and laboratory diagnostics fill out the offering, with most tests run in-house. The visit process is documented step by step so nobody's guessing what happens after check-in. Clients single out how gently Dr. Young handles elderly pets and how thoroughly he explains what he's doing.