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Caring Hands of Arlington

 

If your pet is experiencing any of the following symptoms, you need to contact a veterinarian as quickly as possible.
  • Breathing difficulty
  • Hit by car
  • Collapsed, can not get up
  • Profuse bleeding
  • Dog fight
  • Young puppy/kitten vomiting or with watery diarrhea
  • Big dog that is retching, standing funny, swollen or tender belly
  • Male cat that is straining to urinate
  • Female intact (unspayed) dog or cat that is having discharge from vulva
  • Seizures are NOT normally an emergency.  However, if a seizure is prolonged (lasting more than 5 minutes) or repeating, then your pet needs to be examined.

If an emergency occurs when Caring Hands Animal Hospital is closed, please follow our after-hours contact procedures or contact one of the local animal emergency hospitals:

 

What is an
Emergency?