Animal Emergency & Specialty Center of Chattanooga

06/12/2025

📅 JUNE IS PET PREPAREDNESS MONTH!
Let’s get your pets ready for anything, together. Each week we’ll share tips to help keep your pets safe before, during, and after an emergency.

🦴 Follow along and share to help others prepare too!

🔶 WEEK 2: Emergency Plan for Your Pets

🚨 Who will care for your pets if you can’t get home?
Create a pet emergency plan:

Designate a trusted pet buddy

Post emergency contact info at home

Know local pet-friendly shelters

📍Plan now. Stress less later.

06/09/2025

🌽 PSA from your dog's stomach: Corn cobs are not chew toys.

It’s officially "My Dog Ate WHAT?!" season — from corn cobs to socks to mystery mulch, ERs everywhere are seeing it all. 👀🐶

If your pup just made something disappear that shouldn’t have, don’t wait. Foreign object ingestion can be dangerous, even life-threatening.

👉 Read our latest blog on what to do if your dog swallowed something (including a corn cob):
🔗 https://chattanoogaspecialty.vet/what-to-do-dog-swallowed-something/

📍Animal Emergency & Specialty Center | Chattanooga
423-822-8304
Open 24/7. No judgment—just expert care. 🩺🐾

If your dog swallows something wrong, it could lead to a dangerous GI blockage. Learn how to prevent foreign body ingestion in dogs.

06/08/2025

📅 JUNE IS PET PREPAREDNESS MONTH!
Let’s get your pets ready for anything, together. Each week we’ll share tips to help keep your pets safe before, during, and after an emergency.

🦴 Follow along and share to help others prepare too!
🔶 WEEK 2: Emergency Plan for Your Pets
🚨 Who will care for your pets if you can’t get home?

Create a pet emergency plan:

Designate a trusted pet buddy

Post emergency contact info at home

Know local pet-friendly shelters

📍Plan now. Stress less later.

06/07/2025

We are having the best time supporting McKamey Animal Center at Paw Palooza 2025! The festivities are happening until 4:00- come out and support this amazing organization and the life saving work they do everyday!

06/05/2025

🎉🐾 Catch Us at Paw Palooza! 🐾🎉
The team from Animal Emergency & Specialty Center will be at McKamey Animal Center’s Paw Palooza, and we’re bringing the goods — including FREE pup cups for your four-legged festival-goers! 🐶🍦

We’re proud to support McKamey, a pawsome organization making a real difference for the animals of Chattanooga and beyond.

📍Stop by our booth for:
✅ Pup cups
✅ Pet emergency info
✅ Lots of tail wags from our crew

Come say hi and help us celebrate a community that cares!

💬 Tell us your dog’s favorite treat in the comments!
📸 Tag us in your pup cup pics!
❤️ Like, comment & share to spread the bark!

06/04/2025

🐾🚁 Paws in the air for progress!

We’re proud to be part of a historic milestone in emergency veterinary care—supporting Erlanger LIFE FORCE Air Medical as the first EMS agency in Tennessee (and fifth in the nation!) trained to airlift critically injured working K-9s. 💪🐕

It’s an honor to stand alongside our incredible veterinary partners and local K-9 units in ensuring these brave dogs receive the urgent care they deserve.

📲 Read more about this life-saving initiative: https://bit.ly/45AXkRS

06/03/2025

📅 JUNE IS PET PREPAREDNESS MONTH!
Let’s get your pets ready for anything, together. Each week we’ll share tips to help keep your pets safe before, during, and after an emergency.

🦴 Follow along and share to help others prepare too!

Build a Pet Emergency Kit
📦 Do you have a go-bag for your pet?
Here’s what to pack:

3 days of food & water

Medications

Leash/harness

Vaccination records

Comfort items (toys/blanket)

🩺 Stay prepared, stay safe.
🔍 Keywords: Pet emergency kit, disaster preparedness for pets, pet go bag

05/30/2025

👩‍⚕️🐾 Meet Dr. Nikki Branam – Our Veterinary Medical Director & Student Mentor Extraordinaire!

At Animal Emergency and Specialty Center, we are proud to have Nikki Branam, DVM, leading our medical team with heart, humor, and years of veterinary expertise. When she’s not performing top-notch pet care or managing our hospital’s medical direction, she’s busy shaping the future of vet med by overseeing onsite student externship rotations from multiple veterinary schools. 🎓🐶🐱

Dr. Branam loves mentoring veterinary students as they gain hands-on clinical experience—and trust us, they keep her on her toes (and occasionally updated on the latest TikTok trends ☕😄).
Her commitment to compassionate veterinary care, teaching, and building the next generation of skilled veterinarians is just one reason we—and your pets—are lucky to have Dr. Branam!

05/28/2025

👨‍⚕️✨ Spotting a Board-Certified Surgeon in the Wild: A Quick Field Guide 🐾🔍

Ever wonder how to recognize a real-deal veterinary surgeon out in the wild? Look for the letters DACVS after their name – like Dr. Neal, DVM, MS, DACVS, your friendly neighborhood surgical superhero 🦸‍♂️🐶.
Board-certified, scalpel-savvy, and known to rock a pair of scrubs like nobody’s business, Dr. Neal is trained in advanced surgical techniques that keep pets moving, grooving, and tail-wagging. 💉🩺

Wondering what DACVS really means and why it matters? We've broken it down in our latest blog post (spoiler alert: it’s more than just alphabet soup).
📖 ➡️ https://chattanoogaspecialty.vet/board-certified-vet-vs-dvm/

05/26/2025

Memorial Day is almost here, Chattanooga! 🐾

As we fire up the grills and head out for lake days, don’t forget to keep a close eye on your pets. This time of year can bring some unexpected dangers—like heatstroke, snake bites, fireworks stress, and even a little too much “table food love” from the BBQ.

At Animal Emergency & Specialty Center in Chattanooga, we’re here for you 24/7—because emergencies don’t take holidays. Whether it’s a swallowed corn cob or a scary heat episode, our team is ready whenever you need us.

📍 Located right here in Chattanooga, TN
☎️ Give us a call anytime: 423-822-8304
🌐 More info: https://chattanoogaspecialty.vet/

Wishing you and your pets a safe, happy Memorial Day weekend! 💙❤️