Emergency Care
Here When You Need Us.
If your pet experiences any of the following, (not a complete list), please seek emergency care immediately:
- Anxiety or restlessness – often a sign of pain or ‘bloat’ (GDV)
- Continuous coughing
- Crying out in pain
- Distended, “bloated” abdomen (GDV)
- Difficulty with labor/delivery
- Excessive bleeding
- Extreme lethargy
- Frostbite, hypothermia
- Heat exhaustion or stroke
- Labored breathing
- Lameness in any limb or dragging of the back legs
- Pale gums – which is often seen with internal bleeding or anemia
- Rapid heart rate
- Poisoning or toxin ingestion
- Snake bite
- Vomiting or diarrhea more than two or three times
- Vaginal discharge
- Squinting, bulging, or painful eyeballs
- Straining to urinate or defecate
- Trauma – hit by car, fall, involved in a fight
- Tremors or seizures
- Any abnormal behavior that you’re worried about – e.g., acting aloof or particularly clingy
- See more at: pethealthnetwork.com
We’ll keep your primary care veterinarian updated so that they may resume any follow-up care needed after your visit to Tri-Lakes.
Tri-Lakes Animal Emergency Care opened in Monument, Colorado in the summer of 2019, the third in a family of emergency practices in southern Colorado. Open nights, weekends, and holidays, we are equipped and ready to help when you need us.