Pet Health: Emergencies, Vaccines, Weight, Poisons, Recalls, Vet Costs

Right now

🚨 Is this an emergency?Warning signs for dogs, cats and small pets, sorted by how long you have. Read this one before you need it.
🏥 What happens at the emergency vetWho is seen first, the exam fee, the estimate and the deposit, the CPR question on the form, and what to bring with you.
🩺 Does this need a vet tonight?Pick the animal, type what you see or tick it from the list, and get now, today or watch, with the reason and the source.
🍫 Ate something? Poison calculatorsChocolate, xylitol, grapes and raisins: the dose for your dog's weight, and a line to read down the phone.
☠️ What's toxicFoods, plants and household things, by species, with how bad each one is.
🧸 Toys that get swallowedThe three questions that sort a chewer, the string you never pull, the chews that break teeth, and the signs of a blockage.
🍎 Can dogs eat that?Grapes, avocado, chocolate, xylitol and the rest, with the amounts where the source gives one, and the foods that are fine in small pieces.
📢 Pet food recallsThe FDA's live list, checked every day, with the products named.

If this is happening right now

Call your own vet first. If they are shut, both of these are open all night and both charge a consultation fee: ASPCA Animal Poison Control, (888) 426-4435 · Pet Poison Helpline, (855) 764-7661.

Do not try to make the animal vomit at home unless somebody on the phone tells you to, and tells you how. The wrong method at the wrong moment does more harm than the poison.

Fleas, ticks and worms

Keeping them well

When something is off

Behavior

Lost, evacuated, or moving

Money, records, and the hardest page

Breed by breed

Every one of the 104 breed pages lists the conditions the breed is prone to; 26 of them carry figures from the Royal Veterinary College's VetCompass breed papers, and 83 a measured lifespan.

Last reviewed October 2026. Written and maintained by Petdeals.io. General care information, not veterinary advice — for a sick animal, call a vet.