Urgent Care

Prompt medical attention when your pet needs help right away.

Urgent Care vs. Emergency Care

At MTCAC, our veterinarians are equipped to deal with urgent care and most emergency situations with your pets during our regular office hours.

Urgent Care

Urgent Care is considered non life threatening, and examples include:

  • Eye or ear issues
  • Itchy skin or rashes
  • Limping
  • Urinary issues
  • Excessive scooting or overgrown nails
  • Mild wounds/cuts/abrasions
  • Upset stomach (vomiting or diarrhea)
  • Cough/sneeze
  • Parasites
  • Some ingestions of toxins or swallowing foreign objects

Emergency Care

A pet emergency, in most cases, conditions or injuries that are deemed too risky to wait before seeking treatment. Examples include:

  • Severe allergic reactions
  • Broken bones or unable to walk
  • Passing out or collapse
  • Seizures or convulsions
  • Heat stroke
  • Difficulty breathing or heart stopping
  • Intense or severe vomiting/diarrhea or swollen abdomen
  • Injury from accident by car or animal attack

If your pet is experiencing any of the above symptoms during business hours, please call MTCAC immediately at 713-464-4686, so we may recommend the best course of action for your pet and this will allow our staff to be prepared for your arrival.

Same Day Sick Appointments

We keep several same day sick appointment slots available per doctor, per day so that we can better assist our current patient base (but these tend to fill up quickly). We do our very best to make sure we can accommodate our clients, if we are able. If our same day sick slots are filled, we can do work-in appointments as well, but sometimes we can not accommodate everyone and we may refer you on to an urgent care or 24 hr emergency facility.

We are not a 24-hour facility, but our highly trained medical team will be ready to stabilize a patient so that they may be transferred to a facility for 24-hour support if deemed necessary. Those pets that are deemed stable may be allowed to remain in our hospital. We partner with VEG, Vergi, Sugarland Veterinary Specialist and Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists for the advanced medical and surgical treatments we can not perform in house and the recovery of critical patients.

Poison Control

If you think your pet has ingested something toxic, please call ASPCA Poison Control at (888) 426-4435, which is a 24 hr hotline for pet poisons. Our receptionists are trained to direct you to contact this number first or as you are en route to our facility or to another 24 hr one. They may direct you to do some treatment at home, come into our facility or seek help from a 24 hr facility, and most of the time, the information obtained is very valuable in treating your pet.