Pet Emergency Hospital

Pet Emergency Hospital in Belfield, Dublin is a university veterinary hospital offering both primary care and referral-level treatment for small and large animals. It provides 24-hour hospital care for patients, including overnight monitoring when needed, and the website outlines a strong focus on advanced diagnostics and specialist services. Recent feedback continues to highlight emergency treatment, ongoing investigations, and follow-up communication, alongside some sharply mixed experiences around costs and aspects of inpatient or post-operative care.

Services

•24-hour hospital and emergency care: The hospital provides round-the-clock inpatient care, with reviews describing night and weekend emergency visits, short hospital stays, and post-procedure monitoring.
•Small animal medicine and surgery: This includes routine and urgent treatment, with recent examples such as surgery for a puppy that had swallowed a stone and care for a dog with a broken leg.
•Referral work-ups for complex cases: Owners mention longer-term investigations with staged plans, detailed updates, and follow-up calls and emails.
•Diagnostics and procedures: Website-listed facilities and services include diagnostic imaging, diagnostic laboratories, anaesthesia, and endoscopy.
•Advanced and specialist services: The website lists cardiology, neurology, oncology, dermatology, urology, endocrinology, enterology, orthopaedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, surgical neurology and oncology, reconstructive surgery, wound management, reproductive surgery, rehabilitation, and physiotherapy.
•Large-animal and equine care: The hospital also lists equine medicine, large animal surgery, a farm animal clinic, herd health, and reproduction services.
•Species treated: Website information includes dogs, cats, horses, cattle, sheep, exotic animals, and zoo animals.
•Recognition: The website says the hospital is recognised by the Veterinary Council of Ireland and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

•Dr Katie: Named by a reviewer for helping with a cat’s long-term medical investigation, with particular praise for follow-up calls, emails, test updates, and next-step planning.
•Wider team: Reviews also mention nurses, receptionists, and doctors, with positive comments about empathy, professionalism, and time given during difficult emergency and end-of-life visits.

Reviews

Pet Emergency Hospital has a 4.5/5 Google rating from 1,161 reviews. Recent written feedback shows many owners praising the hospital’s emergency response, communication, and compassion, while a smaller number raise serious concerns about fees, medication access, inpatient care, and post-operative follow-up.

•Emergency treatment is a major positive theme: reviews describe care during nights, weekends, and Christmas Eve, including surgery for a swallowed stone and treatment for a broken leg.
•Communication and ongoing case management are often praised: one owner specifically highlights detailed assessments, follow-up calls and emails, and clear planning during a long-running medical investigation.
•Compassion during difficult moments stands out: several reviewers mention caring, professional support during stressful emergencies or end-of-life situations.
•Negative reviews focus on costs and aspects of care: criticisms include high fees, long waits, complaints about being asked for payment before treatment, and serious allegations around unnecessary overnight stays, poor inpatient handling, and inadequate post-operative follow-up.

Reviews for Pet Emergency Hospital

Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 1161 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Kayleigh Casey

3 weeks ago

Horrible so unempathetic brought my dog was having seizure told me if I didn’t have half tonight of 1400 and the rest the next day they couldn’t give him medicine and to be put down, horrible place

Ana Alajbeg

If you can ,go aelsewhere ,I paid for tests and diagnosis of my cats issue but they wouldnt give me full course of medication for diagnosis so expensive ,not so good place for animals in dire situations ,this crowd only care about their fees ,behaving like superior gods that decide on life and death for sick animal that needs two more days of antibiotics to finish treatment ,which by the way cost 29 cent per pill and he needs 6 of them ,but no no even with there tests and diagnosis 3 days ago, nurse today on the phone needs to talk to sick pet owner in a way that is disturbingly unapropriate and superior words like IF YOU NEED ANTIBIOTIC TAKE HIM TO US AND AFTER FEE WE WILL GIVE YOU !! Its actually really bad when such a bad person is doing to job shes doing

Avril Gubbins

Gail Berry

1 month ago

What an amazing pet hospital. I have three pets who are chronically ill and I cannot recommend these guys highly enough. Such helpful people starting with the fantastic reception team to every other interaction I have had with any staff member. The detailed assessment that is provided to you so you can make the best choice for your best friend. I love the way that all patients stay overnight after procedures and sometimes more than one night depending on the treatment. At least this way you can know your pet is in safe hands in hospital where there are staff available in case of an emergency and you can sleep easy until you collect them. Thank you for taking care of my pets.

Angela C. Murphy

Thamires Gondim Brito

3 months ago

I am extremely disappointed with the treatment and care for my friends dog received at this hospital. Giorgio underwent surgery a few weeks ago, and unfortunately the procedure was not successful due to poor post-operative care and lack of proper follow-up. As a result, his condition worsened and he now needs a second surgery to correct what went wrong in the first one. I trusted this hospital with my dog’s life and spent over €3,000 on the initial treatment, only to be told that another surgery is required, costing around €2,000, because the first one failed. This situation could have been avoided with adequate care, monitoring, and responsibility from the medical team. Beyond the financial burden, this experience has caused enormous emotional stress. Seeing my dog in pain and suffering due to negligence is heartbreaking. I hope this review serves as a warning to other pet owners and encourages the hospital to take responsibility and improve their standards of care, communication, and accountability.

Iz Khan

Accommodating

Soraya McMahon

Had to come here on Christmas Eve and they were great all around.

Linda O’Connor

Nal

Absolutely awful. I'm sorry, I understand some do care, but I would never reccomend to bring a pet here for anything, not even a checkup. My cat was not cared for, prices always being the main priority, my baby could of died at home with us but they kept her instead. Not everyone there is awful, but I can never look at the place again without feeling awful. I do not want to go into detail, but I do not reccomend, and I hope that others don't have similar experiences. They kept her overnight for nights not needed as they got money for it. The person caring for my baby treated her as a thing, to be sedated CONSTANTLY for no need and kept in a tiny cage. She was incredibly dirty like there was no bathroom for her, when we did manage to see her, she looked like hell. She died suffering because of the place she was sent too, and I wish I could of given her a better passing. They did not need to do everything that was done to her, it was clear that fees were the main priority. We went on the weekend, where it is managed by a private veterinary organisation, I am unsure how the week works with students.