North Shore Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care is an after-hours clinic at 96A Ellice Road in Glenfield, Auckland, for dogs, cats and other pets. The website says it has served the North Shore since the 1980s and is staffed by five veterinarians and six veterinary nurses. Its phone number is 09-4435640. The clinic has digital radiology, blood and urine analysis on site, fresh stocks of canine plasma and red blood for transfusions, and it says it is the only clinic in New Zealand to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which it uses for severe burns, stroke and thromboembolism in cats.
Customers describe the team as friendly and professional, and they say the staff were patient and kind with pets that were very ill. One owner says a dog that ate something it should not have was treated overnight and recovered. Others say the clinic handled a life-threatening condition with care, and say the staff kept the family well informed. The website calls the clinic the go-to place for emergency animal care on the North Shore.