How to know when to take dog to urgent care
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Anonymous
| I always call my regular vet if it’s during business hours. They will either advise me over the phone, try to fit my dog in or tell me to go to the e-vet. If it’s after hours then I go straight to emergency. The lack of drinking is the worrisome part. |
Anonymous
| Hi all. OP here - my vet doesn’t have an after hours line. He did perk up a little and eat some boiled chicken and drank some water - which helped me feel ok to wait until morning. Just back from vet - he has a fever of unknown origin so they gave him antibiotics and fluid. Blood work will be back tomorrow. He’s better than yesterday but still not his high energy, happy, food motivated self. |
Anonymous
| I would call the regular vet and ask them. |
Anonymous
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OP, glad to hear he is doing better and you were able to be seen.
PP who went to VEG West End, what was the parking situation like there? Do they have a garage? Just want to be logistically prepared for emergencies. I'm very happy to hear you had a great experience with them. |
Anonymous
VEG PP here. I'm sorry I can't be too helpful with the parking- we are only a few blocks away and our dog didn't have an issue with walking at all, so that's what we did. It was around 11pm on a freezing Friday and the area was dead; I don't think street parking would have been a problem at all, but that is obviously impacted by time. Google shows there are a ton of garages around there, but some of them close at 9pm, so I'd imagine it depends on the time of day. Living in the neighborhood around there, I would say the parking is not generally terrible. Up closer to where we are in Dupont, yes, but right around VEG isn't hopping. Not sure where you are or what makes most sense, but I've had to take my puppy to Friendship once which is a schlep and parking is iffy. We got an Uber Pet within +/- 4 minutes and it worked out great. Obviously not if your dog is bleeding out or vomiting, etc. but for the general kind of malaise PP mentioned, it could be worth it not to have to circle the block or worry about garages closing. I also think about emergency planning and Uber Pet plays into my plan. |
Anonymous
| I take my dogs to the emergency vet when my dogs act unusual or something likes off. For example, my puppy's eye got swollen and I talked to the vet, showed them the picture and then on their recommendation took him to Blue Pearl. Still don't know what really happened but, it went away and not too expensive. |
Anonymous
| hope your dog keeps feeling better. |
Anonymous
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VEG PP, thanks for this. I'm in upper NW and usually go to Friendship, but they've been closed to cases so often recently that I wanted to keep VEG in mind, and I've heard such good things about them. I'll ask them what the parking situation is. I'm so glad they're there, but it seems like there could well be a bundle-the-dog-in-the-car-and-hurry situation and I want to be prepared!
OP, I hope doggy is still on the upswing. |
Anonymous
+1 |