Fast Track Triage
If your pet is in need of veterinary care and your family veterinarian is unavailable, please always call us ahead of your arrival so we can determine your pet's status and the most appropriate course of action.
True Emergency
- Respiratory distress
- Collapse
- Unable to walk or get up
- Straining to urinate/blood in urine in a male cat
- Active seizures/cluster seizure/Status epilepticus
- Severe trauma (hit by car, animal attack, severe or multiple injuries)
- Profuse bleeding from any wound
- Snake bite
- Persistent nonproductive retching
Urgent
- Persistent/severe vomiting
- Appetite loss for more than 24 hours
- Known foreign body ingestion causing illness
- Aggressive coughing w/out distress
- Trouble during active labor/Illness post-birth
- Multiple seizures within a 24-hour period, but not actively seizing
- Diarrhea paired with vomiting or loss of appetite
Semi-Urgent
- Vomiting (2 or fewer episodes)
- Acute diarrhea without vomiting
- Straining to defecate
- Witnessed ingestion of foreign body with no signs of illness
- Blood in urine/straining to urinate in a dog or female cat
- Small wounds or lacerations
- Non-productive cough but breathing fine otherwise
- Broken toenails
- Squinting/eye discharge/ significantly swollen eye
- Allergic reactions (facial swelling, hives)
- Limping
- Witnessed ingestion of rat bait
- Mild trauma/single injury
Recommended to be seen by primary care vet
- Itching/Scratching
- Chronic weight loss
- Chronic illnesses/diseases with no recent change in condition
- Hair loss
- Red eyes/skin/ears
- A single seizure with full recovery