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Tsawwassen Animal Hospital

Emergency

We are a full service hospital and can provide emergency care during our office hours. If you have an emergency after we are closed, please take your pet to an emergency clinic.

The 24-hour emergency clinics we recommend are:

Seek emergency care immediately if your pet is displaying any of these symptoms:

  • Choking, difficulty breathing or nonstop coughing and gagging

  • Severe bleeding or bleeding that does not stop within five minutes

  • Bloated, distended, swollen or painful abdomen

  • Fractured bones, severe lameness or inability to move leg(s)

  • Staggering, stumbling, head-tilting, sudden blindness

  • Inflammation, swelling or other irritation of the eye(s)

  • Ingestion of poison or foreign materials

  • Collapse or loss of consciousness

  • Prolonged vomiting or diarrhea

  • Severe hives or severe itching

  • Seizure activity

  • Heat stress or heat stroke

  • Inability to urinate or defecate

  • Inability to deliver puppies or kittens

  • Rapid heart or breathing rate

  • Bleeding from the nose, mouth, rectum, or coughing up blood

Although we are equipped to manage emergency cases, we do not have staff at the clinic overnight. Should your pet be hospitalized, your veterinarian will discuss the necessity of overnight care and monitoring versus ongoing therapy at our hospital. Based on this discussion and your wishes, your pet may be transferred to a 24-hour care facility for ongoing care.