Veterinary services
Veterinary care for production animals in Kuopio region is provided by the veterinary services of Siilinjärvi Environmental Health Services. The Environmental Health Services in Tervo municipality provide veterinary care for production animals in Karttula area.
Private veterinary centres operate in the city centre and suburbs of Kuopio during business hours on weekdays. Municipal veterinarian’s surgeries can be found in Nilsiä, Juankoski, Siilinjärvi and Vehmersalmi.
The City of Kuopio has a contract with private veterinary centres on the provision of emergency veterinary care for pets in the city area during office hours (8:00 to 16:00) on weekdays. If a veterinary centre is unable to provide assistance quickly enough and your pet’s condition so requires, contact another veterinary centre providing urgent care in Kuopio.
Private veterinary centres charge a treatment fee as stated in their price lists.
- Eläinsairaala Savon Murre
- Kuopion Eläinlääkärikeskus
- Pieneläinvastaanotto Punaturkki
- Siilinjärvi municipal veterinarian services in Kuopio region
- Tervo municipal veterinarian services in Karttula area
Evening and weekend emergency care for pets
Emergency care for large animals in Kuopio, Maaninka, Nilsiä, Juankoski and Vehmersalmi areas
Emergency care for large animals in Karttula area
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If you find a wild animal that is sick, injured or otherwise helpless, you should try and help it. Under the Animal Welfare Act, every effort must be made to help a wild animal which is sick, injured or otherwise in a helpless state. The Nature Conservation Act also lays down an obligation to help protected animals and the Hunting Act to help game and unprotected animals when found injured.
The suffering of an injured animal must not be prolonged. If the state of the animal is such that keeping it alive would represent obvious cruelty to it, the animal must, under the Animal Welfare Act, be put down.
Read more about the treatment of sick and injured animals on the environmental administration’s website.
If a game animal found dead causes a nuisance, the affected person may bury or destroy the animal at their own expense.
Read more about handling a game animal found dead on the website of the Finnish Wildlife Agency.