Emergency Pet Care
We handle pet emergencies at our locations during regular business hours. If you feel your pet is experiencing an emergency, please call us immediately at (865) 986-5450.
After hours, we refer our small animal emergencies to an after-hours emergency hospital:
Animal Emergency & Specialty Center
10213 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37922
P: (865) 693-4440
https://animalerspecialty.com
Our phone rings to Animal Emergency & Specialty Center when we are closed, so in the event of after-hours emergency, you will be in direct contact with AESC for further assistance and instructions.
When to Bring in Your Pet for Urgent Care
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We recommend that you call immediately if your pet is experiencing any of the following:
- Choking or having difficulty breathing
- Hit by a car or suffered blunt-force trauma of any kind
- Ingested a foreign object such as a toy, sock, or string
- Ingested something poisonous
- Profuse bleeding
- Inability to move or stand
- Unusually warm or cold
- Having a seizure
- Loss of consciousness
- Excessive vomiting and/or severe diarrhea
- Blood in stool
- Unable to pass stool or urinate
When in doubt about your pet’s condition, call us—our team will be more than happy to answer your questions, offer advice, or set up a room so we can see your pet.