Pet Help in North Platte and Lincoln County

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What do you need?

In North Platte and need help now? For an emergency, find the closest emergency vet by ZIP code and tell them if cost is a barrier. To lower costs, start with the spay/neuter programs. For food, see the pet food programs. For a bill you can’t cover, get a free funding plan.

Want what’s closest to you? Search by ZIP code or your location.

Spay, neuter and vouchers

• Fur Animal Rescue Snip It in the Bud (Stray and Feral Cats)
  North Platte
  Fur Animal Rescue helps North Platte residents who feed stray or feral cats pay to have them fixed. Cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated for FVRCP and rabies, treated for fleas, ticks and ear mites, dewormed and ear-tipped. FUR or the city shelter can lend traps.
• Paws-itive Partners Spay/Neuter Programs
  Lincoln County · 308-650-7297
  Paws-itive Partners Humane Society helps lower-income households in the North Platte area pay for spay/neuter year-round through its Get ’Em Fixed application, plus Be Responsi-Bull for pit bulls. Its twice-a-year Love My Cat program isn’t running right now. In 2023 it helped pay for 450 spays and neuters.
• TNR North Platte
  Lincoln County
  Nonprofit in North Platte that works to improve the lives of homeless community cats through trap-neuter-return.

Veterinary hospitals and clinics

• Animal Clinic (Rodeo Rd)
  1603 W Rodeo Rd, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 532-2246
  Veterinary clinic in North Platte. Call to ask about services and payment options.
• Heartland Animal Center
  220 W Fremont Dr, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 532-4880
  Veterinary clinic and animal center on South Hwy 83 next to Tractor Supply, owned by Dr. Erin Rowland, with medical, surgical and boarding care.
• North Platte Veterinary Clinic
  402 E Fremont Dr, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 532-0366
  Veterinary clinic in North Platte.
• South Jeffers Small Animal Hospital
  610 S Jeffers St, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 534-3701
  Locally owned small-animal hospital in North Platte.
• Stockman's Veterinary Clinic
  3666 N Stockman Rd, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 532-7210
  Veterinary clinic in North Platte serving pets and horses.
• Tender Hearts Veterinary Center
  1208 W A St, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 221-6915
  Small-animal clinic in North Platte with an after-hours emergency line at 308-221-6915.
• Westfield Small Animal Clinic
  1821 W A St, North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 534-4480
  Small-animal practice in the Westfield Shopping Center since 1975: exams, spay/neuter, dental care, laser surgery, acupuncture and chiropractic, and emergency care during business hours. Serves North Platte, Hershey, Maxwell, Brady and Sutherland.

Pet food

• Paws-itive Partners Humane Society - Pet Food Pantry
  3502 S. Willow #104 (storage unit), North Platte, NE 69101 · (308) 650-7297
  The North Platte Pet Food Pantry, run by volunteers from Paws-itive Partners and Fur Animal Rescue, helps families feed their pets so they can keep them.

Shelters, foster and boarding, end-of-life care and pet loss

• Fur the Love of PAWS Rescue
  220 East B St, North Platte, NE 69101
  State-licensed nonprofit rescue that evaluates and rehomes dogs and cats from the North Platte Animal Shelter, and when it can, provides vet care, foster homes and rehoming help for injured, ill or struggling pets in the community.
• North Platte Animal Shelter
  1402 N Sycamore St, North Platte, NE 69101 · 308-535-6780
  City shelter run by the North Platte Police Department. Dogs adopt for $32.25 and cats for $21.50, and every adopted animal must be spayed or neutered. Strays can be adopted or go to rescues after three days. After hours, call the police at 308-535-6789.
• Paws-itive Partners Urgent Short-Term Pet Care Program
  North Platte and Lincoln County · 308-650-7297
  Paws-itive Partners uses volunteer foster homes to care for pets for a short time in an urgent situation.

Paying for a bigger bill

Apply to more than one assistance program at a time. Ways to pay a vet bill in Nebraska lists the programs that are open now, and a free funding plan puts them together for your pet, with a free fundraiser page if you want one.

10 of these 14 places were checked on the provider’s own website or with the provider. We found the rest in public directories and haven’t checked them yet, so call ahead to confirm. Know a place we’re missing, or run one of these? Tell us. Local businesses can sponsor this guide; sponsors never change what we list.