Minutes Matter: Bring ER Vet Services to Kokomo

Julia Saulmon

I have made numerous trips to Purdue or Circle City Emergency vet for my pets and the drive to get my beloved pets somewhere quick enough to get care, is so brutal. We need emergency care that is in town.

Penny Bitner

I have animals and they are family to my family. A beloved dog of mine had what appeared to be a stroke. We had to keep her comfortable all night because no vets were around until morning.

Julie Howard

Emergencies don't always happen between 8-5. In a life threatening emergency, one's pet may not have the hour it takes to Fishers or Purdue, longer in the winter. I don't drive tue to AMD, do I must also find someone willing to take me and my pet to an ER clinic. More time wasted. I'm a nurse. New vets, just like new doctors coming out of school, don't want to take call. If you want an 8-5 job, find another profession. Our pets need and depend on you 24/7.

Margaret Ball

I have 10 dogs. I feel we need an emergency vet. I had to take my rescue to Carmel for a horrible skin infection the week of Thanksgiving. I couldn’t let her suffer over the holiday

Elizabeth Phillips

Kokomo is a large enough community of pet lovers that local emergency veterinary services are warranted. The nearest emergency services are currently about 45 minutes away by car at best.

Definitely needed in Kokomo

Please!

I believe the people of Kokomo would greatly benefit from on-call and emergency veterinary services.

This is so important.

It is too far to drive to fishers or Indy when your in a panic to save your pets life! We need an emergency vet in Kokomo!

Emergency vet services more local than Indy can save lives. Time matters.

Kokomo needs this

I was recently confronted with a weekend pet emergency and experienced the difficulty and confusion of obtaining out-of-area emergency vet care. This is a pet owners worst fear and an experience I hope no one else has to go through.

I will IMMEDIATELY transfer care of alll our pets to a provider offering 24hr emergency services.

Sounds wonderful, we have cats, we drive to Walton, but need an ER place closer in Kokomo.

This needs to happen. Every separate veterinary office and however many vet they have should trade off and rotate oncall for emergency services.

My cat has needed emergency services several times over the last 4 years. She has seizures and has sustained injuries.

We need an emergency vet in Kokomo. I have had to drive to Purdue twice. Once, my dog had an intestinal block & was throwing up constantly. Intestinal blocks are deadly if not treated quickly. This unfortunately happened on a weekend. It took almost an hour to drive to Purdue. If we had let it go any longer, we would have lost our dog. The second time, our dogs got into a fight & one was bleeding. On the way to Purdue, his breathing was starting to shallow. Again, we were lucky to get there in time to save him. When you have to drive an hour to get help, the hour is traumatic & devastatingly long. The whole way there you’re driving as fast as you can knowing the whole way, you can’t do anything to help. It feels awful & you feel helpless for an hour. Minutes mean life & death in some cases & an hour is just too long.

We need a affordable vet & emergency vet in Kokomo

This is needed so badly here