Emergency Care
Being a house call practice we are not equipped to handle situations that require emergency care. If you feel your pet needs emergency care, please contact one of the following centers:
- Animal Emergency Center of the Quad Cities: 563- 344-9599
- BluePearl Pet Hospital in Cedar Rapids IA: 319-841-5161
- Illinois CVM Teaching Hospital: 217-333-5300
- Iowa State CVM Teaching Hospital: 515-294-4900
Your pet needs immediate care when:
- Severe traumatic injury, such as vehicle accident, animal fight, notable blood loss, gaping wound/ laceration, etc
- Ingestion of a chemical, poison, or recreational drug
- Difficulty breathing, rapid shallow breaths
- Unresponsiveness, seizure-like activity (trembling, shaking, loss of consciousness) that occurs in clusters or longer than 90 seconds.
- Eye injury
- Non-weight-bearing lameness and pain
- Profuse bloody diarrhea AND not eating, lethargic, shaking, etc