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Pawrenting: Basics of choosing the right vet for your pet
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What you need to know:
- Ask how they handle emergencies when your pet gets sick in the middle of the night or who watches over the pet if they need to stay overnight.
- Does the vet take calls directly at night, if not, how soon do they return calls?
- What is the extent of the services that they offer, do they do surgery?
There are many veterinarians if you were to look around but getting one you trust with your pet involves some work.
If you are adopting a pet, you need to get a vet before bringing the pet home. Cats and dogs from a shelter often have minor illnesses from having an immature immune system and the fact that they could have caught an illness from the many other animals they live with. It can be a cough that you want the vet to catch before it progresses to pneumonia. Or the cat could have an eye infection that you want treated before it gets worse.
