If your pet is displaying any of these potentially life-threatening symptoms below, please contact your registered vet or find your nearest Vets Now clinic immediately
- Trauma (e.g. car accident, dog bite)
- Breathing difficulties or excessive panting
- Collapsed or cannot stand
- Significant bleeding (dripping or flowing)
- Seizing/fitting- unless a single seizure and pet is now back to normal within 10mins from end of seizure
- Male cats struggling to pass urine or faeces
- Eye problems – Eye out of socket or foreign object visible in eye
- Rabbits- loss of appetite or not defecated for 24hrs, or floppy or not moving
- Bitten by a snake
- Swollen abdomen
- Trouble giving birth
- If the bitch is at all unwell
- Puppy visible in vagina and not coming out
- Presence of dark green vaginal discharge before any puppies have been born
- Eaten highly toxic/harmful substances
- Grapes, raisins, sultanas and currants in dogs and cats
- Dishwasher or laundry detergent (tablets, powder, capsules)
- Lilies
- Paracetamol in cats (often Calpol or children’s liquid formulation)
- Packets/large quantities of ibuprofen or paracetamol
- Naproxen
- Wild mushrooms
- Swallowed or chewed batteries
- Slug bait containing metaldehyde
- Rat poison containing Cholecalciferol
- Anti-freeze (ethylene glycol)
- Xylitol (ingredient often in chewing gum, toothpaste)