The Company (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014 segment province Laboratory Hospital State
The Company (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of operating segments	5
Number of hospitals operated	643
Number of states in which hospitals are operated	41
Number of Canadian Provinces	4
Number of states in which the company operate a full-service veterinary diagnostic laboratory network	50
Number of laboratories operated	59
Number of Canadian Provinces in which entity operates	4
Camp Bow Wow [Member]
The Company (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of dog boarding and day care service locations operated	129
Number of states in which the entity operates	36
Number of Canadian Provinces in which entity operates	1