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Premier Vet Care in Westerville, OH
Emergency Care for Pets
Shorter wait times. A higher standard of care. And a team focused on giving you and your pet our best, every time.
If you believe your pet may be experiencing an emergency, please call us now.
Monday - Sunday: 8:00am - 1:00am
Urgent Care We Provide
Here Are Some Examples of Emergencies We Treat
- Abdominal Pain or Swelling
- Abscess (bite wound)
- Allergic Reaction
- Anal Gland impaction/Abscess/Rupture
- Anaphylactic shock
- Anemia/pale gums
- Asthma crisis (cats)
- Ate an Object
- Ate Junk Food- Your dog or cat raided the trash, Ate Dropped Food, Stole food off the table or from a toddler.
- Ate something poisonous or Ate a toxin
- Back pain (sometimes a slipped disk or bulging disk)
- Bee and other insect stings are bites
- Birthing/Labor struggles (Dystocia), needs a Caesarean/Cesarean (C-section)
- Bite wounds
- Bleeding wounds
- Bleeding masses
- Bloat/GDV
- Broken Bones
- Broken teeth/mouth wounds or abscess
- Bloody diarrhea/vomit
- Bloody urine
- Butt dragging/scooting/licking
- Burns
- Car accident
- Chest injuries
- Circling/off balance
- Choking/gagging
- Collapse
- Coma/stupor
- Coughing
- Constipation
- Decreased appetite
- Dehydration
- Diabetes regulation
- Diarrhea , Bloody diarrhea, Bloody Stools, The runs
- Dislocated joints
- Disoriented, confused
- Drooling (Ptyalism), hypersalivating, cannot swallow, tooth or mouth disease or injury, toxicity
- Drowning/prolonged lack of oxygen
- Ear injuries/swelling (Aural Hematomas)
- Ear Infections, persistent head shaking
- Electrocution
- Eye issues
- Fainting
- Fever
- Flatulence
- Flea treatment toxicity
- Frostbite
- Gunshot wounds
- Head trauma
- Heart failure
- Heat Stroke
- Hit By Car
- Hot Spot, Moist Dermatitis
- Injuries from active playing (Cruciate ligament injury, torn pawpad, etc)
- Itching (Severe itching is very much an emergency!)
- Kidney disease or injury
- Lethargy
- Loss of Balance
- Mammary tumors
- Neck pain
- Nose bleed (epistaxis)
- Pain
- Pancreatitis
- Panting
- Paralysis
- Parvo
- Pneumonia
- Pregnancy complications
- Prolapsed rectum
- Prolapsed uterus
- Pyometra
- Respiratory distress
- Seizures
- Sepsis
- Smoke inhalation
- Straining to Urinate
- Stroke
- Tail injuries
- Teeth injuries (loose tooth, drooling, cannot close mouth)
- Tremors
- Urinary incontinence
- Yellow skin/icterus/jaundice
- Vertigo
- Vomiting (Upset stomach, Nauseous, Barfing, puking, throwing up retching, erping, yacking)
Built for Better Care
Deeper Collaboration

We built West Vets ER because we see a better way to build a veterinary emergency practice. One where there is deeper collaboration with your pet’s daytime veterinarian. Where the team will have an intimate understanding of your pet’s entire medical history and treatments. We create a healthcare ecosystem around your pet. This radically improves patient care. Because when emergencies happen, only the best will do.

Care Without the Wait
A New Experience
We believe in fundamentally improving the experience of veterinary emergency medicine. Here, we utilize technology and protocols that make for much shorter waiting times than is usual. If you believe the wait is too long, we’ll even help you find another option. It will feel like you and your pet are being cared for by family. Because to us, you are.
When you need us most, we’ll always be here. And we’ll work to make all the difference.
(614) 470-2010
Experts You Can Trust
Only the Best
Emergency medicine is more than a profession to us. It is our calling in life. Here, you will find a team that is uncommonly talented, uniquely experienced, and passionately driven to make all the difference. Your pet will be cared for by clinicians with a deep background in emergency medicine, who have shaped policy and standards at large emergency institutions. In an emergency, having the right team with the right technology and the right approach can make all the difference. That’s why we exist.




