Pet Help in the Omaha Area
In Omaha and need help now? For an emergency, go to a 24-hour hospital below and tell them if cost is a barrier. To lower costs, start with the spay/neuter programs and low-cost clinics. For a bill you can’t cover, get a free funding plan.
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Emergencies and 24-hour hospitals
- VEG ER for Pets (Omaha) 24 hours
13110 Birch Dr, Suite 180, Omaha, NE 68164 · 402-205-7271
Emergency veterinary hospital open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, treating any emergency from vomiting to serious accidents. Walk-ins are accepted day or night, and owners can stay with their pets during care.
Spay, neuter and vouchers
- Nebraska Humane Society Community Cat Program
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134
Program for free-roaming and feral cats that identifies community cats coming into NHS care and makes sure they have caretakers. Supports permitted community cat caretakers with help altering (spaying/neutering) community cats, free or low-cost cat food from the food pantry program, and supplies for winter cat shelters such as insulated coolers and straw. - Nebraska Humane Society Last Litter Program
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134
For owners who surrender an accidental litter of puppies or kittens to NHS: the mother is spayed free of charge and returned to the owner, and the owner fosters the litter for NHS until the babies are old enough for adoption. NHS provides food, litter, vaccinations and deworming for the litter. Microchip transfer and licensing fees still apply. - Nebraska Humane Society Spay & Neuter Center (becoming the Pet Wellness Center)
Omaha metro · (402) 444-7800
Low-cost spay/neuter center for the public (cats, dogs and feral cats in traps, with low-cost vaccines), which is being turned into a low-cost Pet Wellness Center for preventive care, minor medical care, dentals and outpatient parvo treatment.
Veterinary hospitals and clinics
- Nebraska Humane Society Project Pet Safe
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134 · (402) 681-0781
Free, short-term, safe housing for the companion animals of domestic abuse victims while they work with an advocate to leave an abusive situation, until the pets can be reunited with their owners. Spanish-language help is available. - VCA MidWest Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center (Omaha)
9706 Mockingbird Drive, Omaha, NE 68127 · 402-614-9000
Emergency and specialty animal hospital offering emergency care, critical care, diagnostic imaging, internal medicine, neurology, oncology and surgery.
Pet food
- Nebraska Humane Society - Community Pet Food Pantries and Pet Supply Pantry
Omaha metro · (402) 444-7800
Pet food donated to NHS is sent to partner food pantries across the Omaha metro (such as St. Vincent de Paul, Heart Ministry Center and the Salvation Army Burrows Center), and NHS holds its own pet supply pantry (leashes, collars, toys) every third Friday from 2-4pm. - Nebraska Humane Society Animeals
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134 · (402) 444-6766
Once a month, NHS volunteers deliver free pet food to seniors with a licensed companion animal who qualify for Meals on Wheels.
Keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss
- Nebraska Humane Society Free Behavior Helpline
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134 · 402-905-3421
Free behavior helpline and online pet resource library for help with common dog and cat behavior problems. - Nebraska Humane Society Pet Loss Support Group
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134
Free monthly pet loss support group led by a mental health therapist, open to the public. Attendees can share or simply listen, once or every month. Meets in the NHS Friends Forever room, inside the door nearest 90th Street on the NHS campus. - Nebraska Humane Society Rainbow Bridge Private Pet Cremation
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134 · 402-444-7800
Private pet cremation in the shelter's own crematorium, one pet at a time, with ashes returned in a container of your choice. Works with veterinary clinics in Omaha, Council Bluffs and the surrounding area. Proceeds support shelter animals. - Nebraska Humane Society: Shelter, Adoptions, Lost and Found and Animal Control (Omaha)
8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134 · 402-444-7800
Omaha's largest animal shelter, offering pet adoptions, a stray kennel for lost and found pets, owner surrenders, pet licensing and animal control services for the metro area.
Paying for a bigger bill
Ask any hospital about payment plans, CareCredit or Scratchpay, and apply to more than one assistance program. 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.