GAH is a participating member in Affiliated Emergency Veterinary Service (AEVS) which has six locations and supports well over 300 referring veterinary hospitals with after hours care in the Twin Cities, Duluth, St. Cloud, and Rochester Minnesota. AEVS operates evenings, weekends, and holidays when the GAH is closed. The Eden Prairie Clinic operates 24 hours a day and is the preferred site for critical cases when multiple day hospitalization will be needed.

All clinics have full lab, pharmacy, imaging and medical/surgical facilities. AEVS communicates with Gehrman Animal Hospital on a daily basis. Those communications are reviewed and become a permanent part of your pet's record here at the GAH. If you are not sure if you have an emergency, call us if during our regular hours, or call the closest AEVS facility and talk with their staff about your pet's symptoms. Listed below are some guidelines which might also help you in making a decision about an emergency visit. For more information, go to Veterinary Partners.

What Constitutes an Emergency?

If your pet:

▪ is bleeding
▪ having trouble breathing
▪ has been hit by a car, or sustained other traumatic injury
▪ is unconscious
▪ has ingested something potentially poisonous (including chocolate, raisins, xyilitol (an artifical sweetener) or  household plant)*
▪ is having the dry heaves
▪ has persistent vomiting or diarrhea
▪ is vomiting blood or passing blood from the rectum
▪ can not urinate or defecate
▪ has an eye injury, or  cannot open its eyelids

▪ is showing paralysis
▪ is running a fever over 104
▪ has been in hard labor for more than 30 minutes

▪ or is generally in pain

 

then you should immediately seek emergency help.

 

If you need assistance during regular business hours, call: 952-545-9161.

After hours: M-F 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. Sa-Su, holidays 24 hrs, call AEVS in Eden Prairie at 952-942-8272 or Golden Valley, on Highway 55 at 763-529-6560.

 

*Ingestion of common items such as household plants, chocolate, alcohol and xyilitol, to name a few might seem harmless but they can be extremely toxic.  For a more complete list visit the ASPCA Poison Control Center