We are unable to house or hold healthy stray animals. We recommend you contact your town’s animal control officer if you find a stray animal. Please find the animal control officers listed by county/town at this site.
Financings for your pet’s health care needs can be stressful, especially during an emergency. This is a quick, simple, and secure way of financing your pet’s medical needs. They offer several flexible plans and you can apply online.
Care Credit is an emergency medical credit care. This is a quick, simple, and secure way of financing your pet’s medical needs. They offer several flexible plans and you can apply online. These cards can be used at many medical offices for both humans and pets.
There are a lot of little pink pills or white round pills around. If your pet has eaten or chewed on some medications or you find that company in your home has dropped some medications, it’s hard for us to give you advice without knowing what it is. Furthermore, if your pet is here on emergency, there are drugs that can cross-react, so knowing what medications they are on is very helpful and sometime essential to care. This site can help you figure out what that pill could be.
Dealing with Orphaned or Injured Wildlife
We are unfortunately unable to help wildlife at this time. Please use this link to see what the next steps are if you think you have found hurt wildlife.
Sometimes it’s hard to know if something is a toxic dose or that a plant or human food is toxic to a pet. Calling the Animal Poison Control line may save you a stressful drive to our clinic. A technician will help get your information and if warranted a veterinarian can help guide the medical care for your pet and act as a consultant for our veterinary team. There is a fee associated with your medical advice but it’s well worth it to know what we are dealing with.
Waggle, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is dedicated to keeping companion animals and their families together. Waggle has already provided over $1M to the community of 1,000 veterinary hospitals to save 5,000-plus pets, who were at risk of falling victim to economic euthanasia. Here are but a few of Waggle success stories, all with happy endings: https://www.waggle.org/success-stories.
Maine Veterinary Medical Center
One of two 24 hour emergency and specialty hospitals in Maine. If your pet requires ICU care or has a neurological emergency, we may recommend you take your pet to this location.
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care
One of two 24 hour emergency and specialty hospitals in Maine.
Can’t get in to see your regular veterinarian but it’s not an emergency? Try to get an appointment with Petmedic. Their flexible options allow you to make a same-day online appointment after-hours, on the weekend or during select holidays.