24 hours · 7 days · 365 days
The lights are on
at three in the
morning.
Valdosta Veterinary Associates is a full-service small animal hospital with a veterinarian on site every hour of the year. Emergency and critical care, routine wellness, surgery, dentistry and boarding — in one building, ten minutes north of town.
- Walk in
- No appointment for emergencies
- On site
- Labs, X-ray and ultrasound
- Since 2020
- Doctor-owned and operated
Patients are triaged by how sick they are — not by who walked in first.
Bleeding, breathing trouble, bloat, a blocked cat, a seizure, or something they swallowed? Call us on the way in. Do not wait for morning.
Call 229.834.VETSWhat we do
One hospital
for the whole
of their life.
Most animal hospitals hand you off — day practice here, emergency clinic an hour away, boarding somewhere else. Everything below happens in the same building, with the same records and the same team.
All services in detail- 01Emergency & critical care24 hrNo appointment. No answering service. A doctor is in the building.
- 02Wellness & preventive careMon–Fri, 8am–5pmThe unglamorous visits that keep you out of the emergency room.
- 03SurgerySoft tissue procedures, scheduled or same-night.
- 04In-house diagnostics & imagingAnswers tonight, not after a courier run on Monday.
- 05DentistryFull-mouth radiographs, not a guess and a scale.
- 06Boarding & DaycareBoard where the medical staff never leaves.
- 07Referral & primary vet coordinationWe work with your regular veterinarian, not around them.
How far people drive
Families come from
four hours of highway
in every direction.
Before 2020, an after-hours emergency in this part of south Georgia meant a midnight drive to Tallahassee, Tifton or Gainesville. That is the gap this hospital was built to close.
north to
Douglas, GA
east to
Brunswick, GA
west to
Bainbridge, GA
south to
Live Oak, FL
3815 Old US Highway 41 N, Valdosta — the middle of all of it, and open when you arrive.
Doctor-owned since November 2020
Built by a veterinarian who was tired of saying "drive to Tallahassee."
Dr. Jillian Courson opened the hospital in November 2020 and built it to AAHA facility criteria — the surgical suite, the in-house lab, and the overnight ward are all here because the alternative was sending patients down the interstate at 2 a.m.
More about the practiceNeed a routine visit?
Ask for a time.
Wellness exams, vaccines, dentals, surgery consults, boarding and referrals are scheduled on weekdays. Send a request and reception will call you back to confirm.
