Services
At Tell Tail Veterinary Urgent Care, we provide individualized, thoughtful, and quality intermediate care when your pet needs it most.
Services We Offer
Assess → Treat → Make a Plan
Communicate with your family veterinarian
Urgent care
- Minor wounds, injuries, lacerations, eye injury, squinting, conjunctivitis, torn nail, etc.
- Allergic reactions, facial swelling, hives, bee stings
- Rattlesnake bites
- Foxtail wound exploration/removal
- Stabilize major trauma
- Vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing, limping, pain
- Ear infections, skin infections, hot spots, itching
- Urinary issues such as urinary tract infections, straining to urinate, or painful urination
- Toxin ingestion (THC, rodenticide, snail bait, grapes, etc.)
- Dystocia (difficult labor)
- On-site sedation or anesthesia for procedures as indicated
Ultrasound
- Abdominal ultrasound performed by DVM
- Reports written by board-certified radiologist in 4 hours or less
- Sample collection through fine needle aspiration, rapid digital cytology, on-site blood clotting testing, or endoscopic biopsies as indicated
in-house diagnostics & Radiology
- Focal ultrasound
- X-rays
- CBC: evaluate red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets
- Chemistry: evaluate organs, electrolytes, proteins
- Blood clotting time
- Urine evaluation
- Rapid diagnostic for pancreatitis, canine parvovirus, feline leukemia virus, tick-borne disease, and feline heart disease
- Microscopic evaluation of ears, skin, blood, cytology
Send out Laboratory
- Cultures of wounds, urine, or other
- PCR tests for infectious disease
- Cytology of fluids/cells and biopsies of tissues/masses
- Advanced diagnostics
Daytime hospitalization
- IV fluids
- Oxygen support
- Urinary catheterization
- Gastric decontamination and activated charcoal
Specialist relationships
- Endoscopy
- Surgery
- Cardiology consults and echocardiogram
- Ultrasound of abdomen, thorax, or other