Jefferson Animal Hospital and at Jefferson Animal Hospital East are committed to caring for our community. We are blessed with staff and doctors who are willing to donate their time and knowledge to help injured stray animals and injured wildlife. We are not a humane society or association, and we cannot take in any healthy animals. We do have limits as to how many animals we can assist, but much of this depends on donations from Good Samaritans like you! Make a donation today to help us treat injured stray animals.

Jefferson Animal Hospital and Regional Emergency Center – As a 24 hour emergency facility, we are able to assist injured stray animals around the clock. Because we are an emergency center, we have to help our clients with their pets first, and there will be times when we are unable to help, so please call us before bringing an animal in.

Jefferson Animal Hospital East – As the “Official Avian and Exotic Center of Kentucky” we are able to assist injured wildlife. If a wild animal or bird is brought in to us, we are able to assess and offer stabilizing medical care. Once stable these wild animals are turned over to licensed rehabilitators that can care for them and teach them how to thrive back in the wild. Jefferson Animal Hospitals donate monthly to charitable organizations who give voluntarily of their time and provide temporary habitats for these special pets and wildlife.

While our rescue fund provides benefits to injured stray dogs and cats, it allows us to provide a more substantial benefit to injured wildlife who can be released back into the wild.

Spring is coming! Please remember that fledglings do not need our help! If you see a baby bird flapping around on the ground, it's probably trying to learn to fly. If you approach a baby bird and the parents fly around you and squawk at you, then leave the baby alone!

Also rabbits only visit the nests of their young twice a day, in early dawn and dusk, so if you find a nest of babies, they are not abandoned! Leave them alone!