The following are considered emergencies:

• Bloated, swollen, or painful abdomen
• Difficulty breathing, extreme coughing or choking
• Inflammation or injury to the eye
• Obvious pain
• Staggering or stumbling
• Uncontrolled bleeding
• Repeated vomiting
• Unconsciousness
• Dilated pupils
• Seizures
• Severe injury (car accident, fall)
• Unable to deliver puppies or kittens
• Lameness or inability to walk
• Inability to urinate or defecate
• Ingestion of poisonous foods
• Broken bones, open wounds
• Ingestion of foreign objects
• Sudden blindness 
• Loss of balance
• Blood in diarrhea