Why don't we have a sort of ambulance service for animals?

Question

Maybe a service paid for by the owners, if their pet was taken ill and they couldn't get there. Maybe each vet could employ a sort of animal rescue car . Do you think it could work, or would it be impractical?

Answer 1

I don't know where you live but there is such a service in a suburb of Manchester. Get in touch with your Vet's Practice for more information.

Answer 2

That is a wonderful question!! In smaller communities (where I am from) we have vets that do service calls to your house. These generally fall under bigger animals, like cattle or horses, but some may stop for smaller cases. There are also emergency vet places open all night. (I have had to make 2 separate trips.) The expense for the ambulance service could be quite costly and the animal may not cooperate with the personnel and it could just be a plain dangerous situation.

Answer 3

This is a superb question. On rare instances, I have heard of cop cars being used as animal ambulances. This is generally when something horrific has happened. If you have an animal ambulance, I don't think the highway laws would accept or even permit this as an emergency like they do with people. Because of the road laws, it would make an animal ambulance very impractical.

Answer 4

It would work for the larger clinics I suppose but seeing how Human Ambulance staff are treated nowadays, (verbal and physical abuse is getting to be a very major problem) who would want to drive them? A lot of drivers don't even pull over for the Emergency services or do so very reluctantly so would they do it for an animal!

Answer 5

I have heard of a couple 24 hour emergency pet hospitals that do offer that service! It's probably impractical for the smaller clinics though.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

attempt taking a puppy to the hospital for emergency centers. I did it and human beings interior the waiting room have been complaining and did not needed me to bypass first. My dogs became into bleeding a from an injure. by way of the way there are insurance firms for pets, however the main everyday insurance basically consists of as much as the 1st 365 days of age. is often stable to appreciate some cpr, first help

Answer 8

Because animal injuries are not viewed as important as human!!! You have vets that are on call at all times, but who in the world is going to sit in a station and wait for someone to call that their dog had a heart attack?

Answer 9

they should but with the fact that most people drive thses days and there is always a vets you can get to it be quicker to take the aminal yourself than wait for the pet rescue bus cos they would never get clearence for blue lights and sirens and go flying through traffic at **** miles per hour.

Answer 10

What I think is that people spend far too much money on pets when kids are going hungry, being abused, missing out on education etc, and there are charities that they could donate to regarding human needs rather than animals.