When minutes matter, your pet needs an emergency care center.
If your pet is having an emergency and our office is closed, we have partnered with Animal Emergency & Specialty Center of Knoxville.
What is a pet medical emergency?
We understand that pet emergencies may not always be easy to identify. Common signs of emergencies that shouldn’t wait for medical attention are:
- Trauma: severe bite wounds, broken bones, burns, deep cuts, electric shock, heatstroke, frostbite, hypothermia, hit by car.
- Difficulty breathing: short or shallow breath, increased effort, gagging, choking.
- Weakness, inability to walk, disorientation, lameness, limping, or sudden collapse.
- First-time seizure, seizures lasting more than three minutes, or multiple seizures.
- Vomiting, vomiting blood, non-productive retching/vomiting, or swollen or distended abdomen.
- Allergic reactions including swelling, rashes, or itching.
- Excessive or persistent bleeding.
- Inability or straining to urinate, inability or straining to have a bowel movement, or presence of blood in urine or stool.
- Diabetic animals refusing food.
- Pregnant animals in labor for more than one hour without delivering, or for more than 3-4 hours between delivering.
- Signs of pain such as whining, shaking, hiding, or dull behavior.
- Sudden, drastic changes in behavior, appetite, elimination habits.
- Recent ingestion of minor foreign material or toxin (if showing no clinical signs).
- Evidence of worms, or fleas.
- Lumps.
- Facial swelling, licking, or scratching.
