Emergency Services for Fieldstone Animal Hospital PetsEmergency Care & Referrals

At Fieldstone Animal Hospital, our veterinarians and staff understand that medical emergencies for a beloved pet can, and often do, happen outside of normal business hours. The information provided here should help you determine the best course of action.

For poison-related emergencies, our preferred poison control helpline is PetPoison Helpline.

For exotic pet emergencies, we refer patients to Hopkinton Animal Hospiotal in Hopkinton NH.

For all outside hours emergencies, please call one of the following emergency or urgent care hospitals.

Convenient Care/Urgent Care veterinary practices are a new and needed option that has emerged in veterinary medicine. Urgent care practices can provide something between appointment-based primary care practices and emergency/specialty veterinary practices,

Modeled after the walk-in clinics common within human medicine, veterinary urgent care clinics offer a great option when your pet has a condition that causes pain or discomfort on a same-day/evening/weekend/holiday basis that doesn’t rise to the level of requiring intensive diagnostics, hospitalization or other major interventions.

Urgent care is not a replacement for regular veterinary visits. You won’t find an urgent care practice providing vaccines, prevention, and routine care for chronic disease. After a visit to an urgent care practice, staff members will contact your pet’s primary veterinarian, who is responsible for any follow-up needs.

Cases requiring medical intervention beyond what an urgent care practice can treat are referred to an emergency or specialty practice.

“Having a dedicated urgent care practice can provide better efficiency and, hopefully, deliver better care than having these minor cases pile up at the emergency clinic or overwhelm primary care veterinarians,” 

• minor injuries such as bite wounds and lacerations
• quills
• blood in urine with urine production
• diarrhea and minor vomiting (less than 3 times/24 hours)
• coughing without difficulty breathing
• sudden lameness without obvious fracture
• ingestion of a toxin such as rodenticides