Follow these steps to ensure the safety and well-being of your livestock during an emergency.

• Confine animal to restrict motion if possible.
• Remove injured animal from immediate area of danger such as fire if needed, otherwise hold in place.
• Apply direct pressure and bandage to stop bleeding, or if abdominal organs are exposed, cover with a clean wet cloth.
• Prevent predators from continuing to attack.

• Contact emergency care, which could include Suwannee Mobile Veterinary Services, another mobile veterinarian, your local sheriff’s department in the case of road accidents, or an animal rescue organization trained in removing animals from vehicles or down structures.
• Also consider calling on neighbors and friends to provide more physical assistance.

Urgent Care

Urgent Care is different from Emergency Care. Urgent care is necessary and needs timely attention, but a delay of several hours is usually tolerated by the patient.  Often patients are discovered to be in need of urgent care hours or days after they have already been showing signs of needing care.  Our goal is to respond to urgent care requests as soon as possible, which may be during evening hours that same day.  Sometimes due to the large area we cover, we recommend contacting another provider or trailering to higher care in order to get the animal swift attention.

• Many mild colics – some colics may appear mild but are actually emergencies, so we try to respond to these promptly
• Down cows with milk fever or grass tetany
• Goats with circling disease
• Acute lameness in horses
• Pregnant animals with suspected metabolic issues
• Many other instances not covered here.

Emergency calls are those situations which, in our opinion, need immediate response.  Urgent calls are those which in our opinion need same day response.