Emergency vet access in Missouri

Of 142 listed veterinary practices in Missouri,4 post verified around-the-clock hours across 4 cities, and 3 more offer emergency services without overnight staffing. 3 emergency providers are verified to treat exotic pets. 14 practices treat farm animals or horses.

Updated 2026-09-09. Free to cite with a link. Methodology and limits below.

Every verified 24/7 hospital in Missouri

Hospital	City	Phone	Exotics
Veterinary Emergency Group	Brentwood	(314) 970-2545
Horton Discovery Animal Hospital	Columbia	(573) 777-3609
BluePearl Pet Hospital	Lee's Summit	(816) 554-4990	✓ verified
Animal Emergency Clinic	O'Fallon	(636) 339-4345	✓ verified

Towns farthest from overnight care

Among Missouri towns with at least four listed practices but no 24/7 hospital of their own, the longest hauls to verified overnight care:

Springfield — nearest 24/7 hospital is Horton Discovery Animal Hospital in Columbia, 127 mi straight-line (roughly a 2 hr 32 min drive)
Kansas City — nearest 24/7 hospital is BluePearl Pet Hospital in Lee's Summit, 13 mi straight-line (roughly a 23 min drive)
Raytown — nearest 24/7 hospital is BluePearl Pet Hospital in Lee's Summit, 7 mi straight-line (roughly a 13 min drive)
Saint Louis — nearest 24/7 hospital is Veterinary Emergency Group in Brentwood, 4 mi straight-line (roughly a 12 min drive)

Methodology & honest limits

"24/7" means the hospital's own posted hours say so — on-call and emergency-line arrangements do not count, and we audit the claims. Distances are straight-line between town coordinates, not road miles; drive times are estimates, not routing. Our dataset (OpenStreetMap and GeoNames base, plus our own verification and reader corrections) is extensive but not a census: a town can look underserved here because a hospital lacks any web presence. Corrections are verified and applied — report one.

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