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Encino Pet Hospital & Emergency is a full-service animal hospital about 30 to 40 minutes from Santa Clarita, open 7 days a week from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM. When your dog or cat needs to be seen today, or needs a CT scan, ultrasound or surgery consultation without a long wait, call us and we’ll have the team ready when you arrive.
Santa Clarita has good everyday care. Families come to us when a problem needs more answers than a routine visit can give, and they want those answers soon.
From Valencia, Saugus, Newhall, Canyon Country or Stevenson Ranch, the trip is usually a straight run south on I-5 to I-405, traffic permitting. That puts advanced diagnostics within a morning’s reach instead of weeks away.
Our team can examine your pet, run lab work (many results come back in under an hour) and move to imaging the same day when it makes sense. If the next step is a CT scan, a pet ultrasound or an endoscopy, we’ll talk you through it and set it up.
Call before you get on the freeway. A quick call lets us tell you what to bring and get the right people ready for your arrival.
We see pets for vomiting that won’t stop, not eating, sudden limping, straining to urinate, labored breathing and more. Our pet symptoms guide covers the common ones, and pages like vomiting and diarrhea and blocked cats explain when to worry.
A male cat straining with little or no urine, a pet struggling to breathe, collapse or a swollen, hard belly cannot wait for traffic. If you are already on the road, call us from the car. See our emergency care page for more red flags.
Honest timing matters too. We close at 7:30 PM. After that, for a true emergency, the nearest 24-hour emergency hospital is the right call. For anything that can wait until morning, call us first thing at 7:30 AM.
Many conditions need a second look: repeat bloodwork, a recheck ultrasound, suture removal or a progress exam after treatment.
Because the drive is manageable, Santa Clarita families often keep rechecks with the same team that knows the case. We’ll try to group tests into one visit so you are not coming back more often than needed.
If your pet needs to stay with us during the day for fluids or monitoring, our pet hospitalization team will explain the plan, including what happens after we close at 7:30 PM. For surgery questions, start with a specialty surgery consultation.
Driving in from farther north? Our Palmdale and Lancaster pages share tips for planning a longer trip.
Call ahead and we’ll be ready when you pull in, 7 days a week.
Everything your pet needs, in one place in Encino.
