No matter how well you care for your pet, sometimes accidents or illnesses occur during hours that our facility is closed. We provide our clients access to emergency care 24/7 (24 hours per day/7 days a week). Just call our main number, 803-366-1950. You will be given either a pager number to access one of our doctors directly or a number to a nearby emergency facility (Animal Emergency and Critical Care [AECC] 1-704-588-7015). If your pet cannot be stabilized after an emergency, you also have the option of taking it to the AECC facility for observation overnight.

Directions for contacting the doctor's pager:

1. Call the pager number with a touch-tone phone (does not work with pulse dial or rotary phones).

2. When you hear the response (either a series of beeps or a message), simply key in your own telephone number using your phone's keypad. Then hang up. The doctor should (provided he is not in surgery or in the car) return the call within 10 minutes.

Directions to the Animal Emergency and Critical Care Hospital:

1. Take highway I-77 north and take the Westinghouse Boulevard exit.

2. Turn left off the exit and proceed to NC 49 (also called South Tryon Street). Turn right.

3. Proceed a short distance to yellow-blink- ing light (Township Road) and turn left.

4. The AECC, also called Carolina Veterinary Specialists, is 50 yards on the left.                                                                                                           ..