Your 24 hour Veterinary Team

When an emergency hits in the middle of the night or on a holiday, CVES provides the compassionate care your pet needs. CVES doctors work closely with your family veterinarian to provide continuous care for your pets. Your family veterinarian can also transfer a sick pet to us for overnight care and monitoring. This allows a faster recovery for your pet and assures that your pet is never hospitalized without doctor's supervision. CVES works closely with VRCC's other practices to ensure that pets needing to see a specialist are quickly seen.

It is sometimes difficult to determine if your pet is in crisis and a phone call to our technicians may help ease your mind or provide information to help you make a decision. However, if you are concerned enough to call it is usually best to bring in your pet for a visit. Waiting until the morning for a visit to the vet in some cases may not be the best choice for your pets' well being. Starting treatment sooner may decrease recovery time or even save a life.

Emergency Care is:

• Treatment of a life threatening injury or event
• Veterinary visit between the hours of 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. weekdays or any hour during the weekend
• Trustworthy medical care when your family veterinarian is unavailable
• Help over the phone

Pets, like people, can get themselves into life threatening situations that result in needing immediate medical care. These events often occur at odd hours and the staff at Central Veterinary Emergency Services (CVES) are available to help. Open from 4 pm to 8 am weekdays and 24 hours on the weekends and holidays, our Doctors and Technicians are able to provide compassionate, life saving care to your pet in an emergency situation. If your pet has suffered a serious injury or life-threatening event, stay calm, but try to get your pet to our hospital as soon as possible.

CVES is housed in a state-of the art facility where doctors from a variety of specialties practice everyday. If your pet needs immediate surgery or a consultation with one of the VRCC specialists, the CVES Doctors are able to make the recommendations, consult with a specialist over the phone or even transfer your pet to a Doctor specializing in the care your pet needs.

Examples of Emergencies:

1. Difficulty breathing
2. Ingestion of a foreign object or substance
3. Bleeding
4. Labor that isn't progressing
5. Serious cut or broken limb
6. Any trauma to the eye
7. Loss of consciousness
8. Seizures
9. Inability to move legs or weakness in limbs
10. Unusual or erratic behavior

What is Critical Care?

• Hospitalization
• Monitoring around the clock
• Continuous treatment and diagnostics
• Referrals/transfers from Family Veterinarians

Ever been unsure what to do for a sick pet in the middle of the night? Many of your pet’s illnesses will not respond to medications given at home. Sometimes your cat or dog is so ill that response to treatment needs to be monitored hourly with frequent changes in therapy or treatment. Your cat or dog may need to stay in our hospital overnight for treatments, further diagnostics, and potentially even surgery.

Your family veterinarian knows this constant monitoring is available and may transfer your pet to our facility for diagnostics and treatment through the night. This relationship provides the compassionate care that your pet needs no matter the time of night to stay on the path to recovery.