Dog Health Care : Emergencies & Your Dog's Health

Hi my name is Sarah and my name is Haley and we are two of the technicians here at Extra Care Animal Hospital and on behalf of Expert Village.com we are going to speak with you today a little bit about the care of your dog. Right now, what I am going to talk about is emergencies. Emergencies can unfortunately be fatal to your dog. There are many different signs and symptoms that can end in emergency. There is hit by a car, there are bufo toads which are extremely toxic and they resemble frogs and tend to have a more bumpy bigger look to them. If your dog gets hold of a bufo toad you will see panting, licking of the lips, bug eyes, foaming of the mouth, bright red gums and even difficulty breathing which can eventually lead to some heart failure. Bufo toads are in Florida and California. You want to watch out for a hit by a car. They can have some internal injuries, some broken bones and can have some active bleeding which means they are bleeding somewhere on their body. In case of an emergency you want to bring them to an animal hospital. Try and contact an animal hospital if you can while you are on your way or otherwise just show up. You always want to be aware of a 24 hour emergency animal hospital. That is probably the best thing you can do in an emergency case basis. You want to describe your symptoms to both the receptionist and the technician when you show up. Go ahead and let the technicians take your dog immediately to the treatment room so we can assess and treat whatever may be occurring. Like I said there are several different things that can be classified as an emergency including the hit by a car, the Bufo Toad, the active bleeding, seizures are considered an emergency or something that you just may feel that may not be right with your dog. We may not know exactly what it is on the outside but it can be considered an emergency on the inside. Kidney failure and liver failure or anyone of those that can be considered an emergency.