EMERGENCY CALL IMMEDIATELY
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• - Any vomit or diarrhea containing blood

• Blood from any orifice (unexpected or new)

• Continuous Vomiting over the course of the day

• - Blood in the urine, or a foster animal unable to urinate at all, in spite of intaking adequate food and water for 12 hours.

• - Male cats/kittens straining to urinate, hunkering routinely with an inability to be productive

• - Severe congestion, wheezing, labored breathing

• - Any accident where a foster parent strongly feels the foster has sustained or has likely sustained an injury

• - Lameness that lasts more than a couple of hours or occurs immediately following a fall, drop, or other incident

• - Pain that may be demonstrated by irritability when handled or touched and is out of character for the pet and causes constant reactivity or crying

• - Seizures and/or convulsions

• - Severe diarrhea (sudden/worsened), especially when paired with lethargy (being very tired or immobile) and vomiting

• - Poor appetite for more than 48 hours in adults or 2 to 3 feeding periods in puppies or kittens (this can be easily reviewed by documenting on your foster wellness chart received at pick up). Remember appetite may vary from meal to meal and that is normal based on the last feeding, but animals should be consistently consuming the correct amount of total daily calories/ml/oz.

• - Dramatic weight loss in juveniles

• - Any obvious broken bone

• - A combination of pale gums, lack of appetite, lethargy, consistent crying in an unweaned animal

• - Serious Injury to a person or household pet

• - Ingestion of a non-food item

• - Unresponsiveness

• - Cannot stand or walk

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