Nightwatch is the ER your daytime vet trusts after 6pm — board-supervised emergency medicine, in-house surgery and imaging, and triage that tells you the truth about "wait until morning" versus "come now."
Exam fee $145 — told to you on the phone, not at the desk · Estimates in writing before treatment · CareCredit & payment plans
＋ Your regular vet gets our full records by morning — automatically, every case.
Minutes matter. Call so we prep the table.
Bring the packaging. Speed changes outcomes.
Same night — call and we'll slot you.
Free phone triage — half of these safely wait for your day vet. We'll say so.
Walk-ins always; call-aheads get prepped rooms. Sickest seen first — we explain the wait, keep you updated, and never park a critical case.
Exam $145 · triage on arrivalEmergency surgery, foreign-body removal, and toxin protocols with induced decontamination when minutes count. Bloodwork and imaging in-house, results in under an hour.
Estimate approved before anythingHospitalization with an actual doctor and techs in the building all night — plus a 10pm and 6am phone update, because we know you're not sleeping either.
Updates at 10pm & 6am, always＋ Every estimate has a low and high in writing; you approve before we proceed. Money talks happen with the doctor, not a billing desk.
nights a year — including the holidays emergencies prefer
average time to triage on arrival
of phone triage calls end in "safe to wait for your vet" — free advice
of records sent to your day vet by morning
"2am, golden retriever, whole tray of brownies. They answered mid-ring, told me the exam fee and what decontamination would cost before I got in the car, and called my regular vet before I'd even woken up. Baxter is fine and unrepentant."
Chocolate incident · discharged same nightExam: $145, stated on the phone. Typical visits with diagnostics run $300–800; surgery and hospitalization more — always as a written low-high estimate you approve first. CareCredit and payment plans exist, and the doctor discusses money with you directly, without judgment.
Call if you can — 60 seconds tells us to prep oxygen, a surgeon, or the decontamination protocol, and tells you what to do in the car. But never delay a COME NOW situation to phone first. Doors don't lock.
Yes — about 40% of phone calls end exactly that way, free. An ER that treats everything as critical is billing your fear. Your day vet is cheaper and knows your pet; when morning can wait, we say so.
Full records, imaging, and labs go to your regular vet by morning — automatically. We're the night shift of your pet's care team, not a replacement for it.
Call ahead and we prep. Triage in 15 minutes, estimates in writing.
The free fridge-magnet toxin list — and the number to save before you need it.
One tap adds us to contacts. 40% of calls end in free "it can wait."
Meds, watch-fors, and the direct line if anything changes tonight.
Check-in + confirmation records reached their day vet.
Fridge-magnet PDF — the shareable prevention artifact.
What ER-heavy policies cover; useful before the next 2am.
Referral of the only kind we want: the number, saved in advance.
(555) 900-VETS · call ahead and we prep · free phone triage, honestly given.
Call (555) 900-VETS＋ Records to your day vet by morning · estimates approved before treatment