New Emergency Animal Hospital Eyes April Opening

A new emergency animal hospital is under construction in the multi-tenant on Ryan Road and could be open by April.

Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. for critical-care cases that cannot be handled by nearby clinics.

"A high percentage of the clients have never been to the site before because they are referred to by general practitioners throughout the SE WI area," owners Jacob Odders and Brian Teunissen wrote in a letter to the Oak Creek Department of Community Development.

"These pets are critical. They may have been hit by a car, injured in a fight, dying from congestive heart failure, suffering from acute medical conditions etc."

Odders and Teunissen appeared Tuesday before the Oak Creek Plan Commission, which approved Lakeshore's signage plans. The business will occupy the west side of the Pick 'n Save facility, 2400 W. Ryan Road.

Odders said after the meeting that if all goes well, the hospital will open April 1.

Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists has hospitals in Port Washington, Racine and Glendale.