The BIG Difference in Emergency Care:
24 Hour Care vs 24 Hour On Call

Picture this, your beloved pet becomes very ill or is injured at 2am.
What would you do? Would you choose care given by specialized trauma care veterinarians? In a fully staffed hospital with monitoring 24/7? A place where doctors could intervene if your pet's vital signs were unstable? Where medicine and fluids are given as needed through the night?
OR
Would you choose to meet a veterinarian at his/her clinic for an assessment of your pet? This doctor most likely has little or no staff at his disposal. He/she will either have to send you home with your ill pet or will ask you to leave the pet at his hospital unmonitored until his staff returns in the morning. Another option for this doctor is to send you to an emergency hospital. If this is the veterinarian's choice you have just wasted valuable time (and money) by not going directly to the emergency hospital.

We are often asked why we don't provide 24 hour on call services. The answer is easy; we want your pet to have the very best of care! We feel that if your pet is hurt or hurting during our off hours and if it is too serious to wait for 8am, then he/she deserves the expertise of a fully awake, emergency room specialist.  Our veterinarians have spent their daytime hours caring for pets and would have to get up and drive to the clinic to meet you. We don't believe that this scenario would be the best care for your loved one.  In order to have the best possible outcome for you and your pet an emergency hospital is the answer!

We are very lucky to be in an area where emergency care is available from  many sources. You can choose from the Animal Emergency Center in Glendale, Wisconsin Referral Center in Waukesha and Grafton or Lake Shore Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Hospital in Port Washington.

All of these facilities are staffed by certified emergency veterinarians and have the latest technology available to them. Please take our recommendation and utilize an Emergency Hospital when your pet has a medical emergency.