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Veterinary Clinic Moving in Colorado Springs

Your team moves the animals, the drugs, and the vaccine fridge. Our crew moves the emptied cage banks, exam rooms, pharmacy shelving, and front lobby.

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Planning a Veterinary Clinic Move

A veterinary clinic cannot move a cage bank with a dog in it, so the plan starts with the animals. Your practice decides when to stop booking boarders, which hospitalized patients go home or to a partner clinic, and when the kennel lead can call each ward empty and disinfected. From that date forward, the building is mostly stainless steel, cabinetry, and a lot of equipment that belongs to someone else.

The someone-else list is long. Controlled drugs stay with the veterinarian, whose DEA registration is tied to the clinic's address. The vaccine refrigerator and its contents are the practice's to move. Anesthesia machines, oxygen and scavenging lines, digital radiography, dental X-ray, and in-house lab analyzers go with their vendors. What remains is ours: modular cage banks, run gates that are not bolted down, exam tables that are not plumbed or powered, treatment-room cabinets, the in-clinic pharmacy's emptied shelving, the grooming area, and the reception lobby. We sequence it so the treatment area is ready when the vendors arrive.

Who usually signs off
Practice owner veterinarian or practice manager, with the kennel lead confirming each ward is empty and the equipment vendors on the same calendar
Timing that works
Boarding and hospitalized patients set the date: most clinics stop taking boarders ahead of the move, send patients home or to a partner clinic, and move the wards over a weekend once the last animal has left.

What typically moves

  • Stackable stainless cage banks Disinfected by staff, doors latched, and moved as modules; each module keeps its drain pans, grates, and connectors bagged and taped to it.
  • Run gates and freestanding kennel panels Freestanding panels move as numbered sets. Gates bolted to the floor or wall stay until the kennel installer releases them.
  • Freestanding exam tables and lift tables Tops padded, lift mechanisms lowered and locked; a tub or wet table tied into plumbing waits for the plumber.
  • Treatment-room and surgery-suite casework Mobile cabinets and carts travel emptied and taped; built-in cabinetry stays with the building.
  • In-clinic pharmacy shelving Emptied by staff first. Over-the-counter food and retail stock can go with us; prescription drugs go with the practice.
  • Grooming tables, dryers, and tubs Arms, loops, and dryer hoses bagged with each table; plumbed grooming tubs are disconnected by a plumber before they move.
  • Reception counter, lobby benches, and scale The floor scale is lifted as one unit where its design allows, and lobby benches are wrapped against scuffs on the truck.

Access and scheduling

Veterinary clinics around Colorado Springs are often freestanding buildings with their own lot, which makes truck access easy, but the back door usually opens off the treatment area or the ward, the two rooms we most need to keep clean and clear. We plan the route with your manager so heavy cage banks never pass through a room where staff are still working with animals.

Think about three stages. First, staff clear and disinfect the wards and the pharmacy while the front of the clinic still sees appointments. Second, vendors decommission anesthesia, radiology, and lab equipment, and we move the wards, treatment room, and back office, often on a Saturday or Sunday. Third, the lobby and exam rooms move after the last appointment, keeping the front desk's closure brief. A clinic in a shared building should check if its landlord requires our Certificate of Insurance.

Protection and handling

Stainless steel scratches, and a gouged cage floor holds bacteria your staff cannot clean out, so we pad every bank face and never slide modules across each other. Cage doors are latched or zip-tied shut, and small parts like water bowl rings and drain grates are bagged per module. Exam table tops ride covered, and lift tables are lowered to their transport height.

Nothing clinical rides on our truck: no drugs, no vaccines, no sharps containers, and no medical waste. Your team packs the refrigerator's contents and moves them itself. Our crew unplugs and reconnects the front desk's computers, monitors, and receipt printers at the new counter; the practice management software, phones, and any lab-result interfaces belong to your IT contact.

Who does what

Some of this job belongs to other trades. The written plan names each one.

Anesthesia machines, oxygen supply, and waste-gas scavenging
The anesthesia equipment vendor and the medical gas supplier disconnect, move, reinstall, and test them.
Digital radiography, dental X-ray, and in-house lab analyzers
Each vendor or service company removes, reinstalls, and calibrates its equipment and handles the paperwork a new X-ray room needs.
Controlled drugs, vaccines, and hospitalized or boarded animals
The veterinarian and clinic staff handle them by their own protocols, including the practice's DEA address change.

Not part of our work

  • Transporting animals, drugs, vaccines, sharps, or medical waste.
  • Unbolting run gates or disconnecting plumbed tubs and wet tables.

Around Colorado Springs and El Paso County

Clinics across Colorado Springs sit on busy arterials: Briargate and InterQuest on the north side, the Powers corridor and Stetson Hills to the east, and older west-side buildings near Garden of the Gods Road. A practice with a second site in Woodland Park or Monument deals with mountain and Monument Hill weather in winter, so we hold a backup date.

The crew that shows up

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Veterinary Clinic Moving FAQs

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How far ahead should we stop taking boarders before the move?

That is your practice's call, based on how long it takes to empty and disinfect the wards. Many clinics stop new boarding bookings well ahead and arrange partner care for hospitalized patients shortly before. Tell us the date the last animal leaves, and we plan the ward move to start after your team has cleaned it.

Can you move a cage bank that is bolted together as one wall?

Modular stainless banks are built to separate into stacks, and we move them module by module with their connectors bagged. A bank anchored to the wall or floor, or one with plumbed drains, stays until the kennel installer or a plumber releases it. Send us photos of the back and base of each bank.

Who handles the veterinarian's DEA registration for the new address?

The veterinarian does. A DEA registration for a practice that stores controlled drugs is tied to its location, so the practice updates it before those drugs move to the new clinic. Our crew never handles controlled drugs, and the lockbox or safe that holds them is emptied before we move it.

Our treatment table is plumbed into a sink. Can it move with the rest?

A wet or tub table connected to water and drain lines needs a plumber first. Once the plumber disconnects it and your vendor releases any lift mechanism, we move it with the treatment-room casework. Ask the plumber to come back the day the table is set in the new room.

Plan your business move

Tell us both addresses, the building rules you know about, and the dates you cannot move. We will send back a written plan and estimate.

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