Urgent Care
What constitutes urgent care:
Urgent care encompasses serious illnesses that require immediate attention, some clinical signs to watch for include:
- Pale or yellow mucous membranes
- Labored breathing
- Excessive coughing
- Exercise intolerance
- Loss of appetite, anorexia
- Dehydration
- Lethargy
- Difficulty urinating or defecating
- More frequent usage of litter box or staying a long time on the litter box
- Acute vomiting and or diarrhea
- Obvious signs of pain or anxiety
- Swollen or shut eye lids
- Acute lameness or non bearing weight on limbs
- Foxtails
- Foreign body ingestion
If you have an urgent situation and your pet requires attention, please call our hospital during business hours. We will do our best to accommodate you as best as possible and as quickly as possible – these situations are taken on a day to day basis and our availability may depend on our staffing for that day. In the event of an emergency situation requiring intense 24 hour care we will refer you to an emergency hospital.