Is it an emergency?
These conditions
require immediate attention
If your pet
has any of the following symptoms, call us or your local emergency
facility and let them know that you have a pet that has:
- Cardiac/Respiratory emergencies
- noisy respiration
- blue tongue
- gasping for breath
- rapid or shallow breathing
- Bleeding that does not stop from any part of the
body
- apply pressure with a clean cloth and go
- Bloated, swollen or painful abdomen with or without
vomiting.
- Inability to urinate or move bowels but continues to
try or has bloody stool or urine or painful defecation or
urination.
- Heatstroke
- heavy panting
- extreme weakness
- body temperature about 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Inability to deliver puppies or kittens
- labor contractions for longer than two hours
or more than 15 minutes of labor with the fetus or membrane
showing.
- Loss of balance or consciousness or seizure
- tremors
- coma
- staggering
- convulsions
- sudden blindness
- tilting of the head
- biting at imaginary objects
- sudden changes in disposition such as unusual withdrawal or
out-of-character aggressiveness
- Pain
- Major trauma
- falls
- vehicle accidents
- wounds
- cuts
- broken bones
- Ingested poison
- bring the container or the commercial or chemical name of the
product or a list of ingredients if you have it.
- Vomiting or diarrhea
- lasting more than 24 hours
- containing blood
- Eye emergencies
- bleeding
- swelling
- laceration or foreign body
- different sized pupils