Manukau After Hours Veterinary Clinic is an emergency clinic for pets, open when a regular daytime vet is closed. It has operated since 1996 and takes emergency cases as well as less urgent medical and surgical problems, though it does not do routine work such as vaccinations, microchipping, spaying or neutering. Daytime clinics also send it overnight monitoring for critical and post-operative patients, and every night there is at least one emergency veterinarian and one veterinary nurse on duty. Finance options are available for payment.
The clinic is open Monday to Thursday from 6pm until 8am the next morning, and from 6pm on Friday through until 8am on Monday, which covers weekends and holidays. It sits at 15 Jack Conway Avenue in Manukau City Centre, reached from Great South Road by turning off Ryan Place. Anyone who finds a stray animal can bring it in, and the clinic lists found pets so that owners can be reunited with them. It describes its role as first-line support during holidays and out-of-hours, when the usual vet is shut.