Eastern Carolina Veterinary Medical Center

09/04/2025

🐾 Caring for a Pet with Chronic Illness, Injury, or Age-Related Changes?
You're not alone—and you don’t have to do it alone.

Join our Caring Companions monthly support group, created for pet parents who are navigating the emotional, physical, and financial challenges of caregiving. 🧡

🗓️ Next Group: 9/22
📍 Location: Virtual (link provided upon registration)
💬 Share your story, connect with others who understand, and receive emotional support, resources, and tools to help you cope and care.

💻 Free to attend – Register here:
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caring-companions-a-support-group-for-pet-caregivers-tickets-1636688813299?aff=erelexpmlt

You show up for your pet every day—let us show up for you. 💙

In-person monthly support group for pet caregivers navigating chronic illness, injury, or aging in their animal companions.

09/01/2025

https://wilmingtonncmagazine.com/expanding-emergency-and-specialty-pet-services-in-wilmington

Although our new hospital opening will be delayed, we thought we would share this great article from the Wilmington NC Magazine, that visited the hospital prior to the unfortunate accident. Thank you, Wilmington NC Magazine, we appreciate the coverage of our vision to better serve our community.

We still are holding this vision strong and working towards bringing these needed specialties to Wilmington.

Eastern North Carolina Veterinary Medical Center Expanding Emergency and Specialty Pet Services in Wilmington Wilmington Magazine Sept-Oct 2025

08/29/2025

https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/donate-today/veterinary-practice-donation/?state=NC&member=NC100945

We want to thank everyone who has reached out since our explosion sending your thoughts and prayers, well wishes and encouragement. This has meant so much to our team, who continue to show up to work each day, taking care of your pets, while carrying the load of dealing with the loss of moving to our new building.

Many people have inquired about sending funds to help with rebuilding and other costs. Our insurance will be helping with that, and as I thought about a way for the community to show their support to be involved in our recovery and moving forward initiatives, it occurred to me that your generosity could be best served by helping other pet owners who are struggling to pay for the care of their pet.

Many people do not know that Eastern Carolina Veterinary Referral has a not-for-profit foundation that is meant to help these owners. The love of pets goes beyond financial status and the love and comfort one gets from being a pet owner should be supported.

I think the best way to show support and to be a part of our recovery is to donate to this fund rather than towards rebuilding and construction. The returns on your donation will help many pet owners select the level of care needed to address illnesses or injury so their time with their pet is extended and the pet will live at its maximum ability, providing the love and companionship we all appreciate from our pets.

The link above will take you to the Veterinary Care Foundation's website, as they administer this fund. Thank you for your support of ECVR and thank you for your donation.

08/22/2025

Where do we go from here?

08/20/2025

Today we are thankful. We are thankful for the brave men and women with the Wilmington Fire Department and the Wilmington Police Department. We are thankful for the construction crew and for the crew member who alerted others in the building to evacuate ensuring there was no one in the building at the time of the explosion. We are thankful for the City of Wilmington and their teams that came on site to manage and support the efforts to contain the aftermath and who supported our heroes with water and food. We are thankful that Mayor Saffo came on site to check on our well-being.

We are also thankful for our partners, clients and community who have reached out to our team to show support and offer assistance. We are thankful for our dedicated team, who had been spending time in the new building getting it set up for operational readiness. We are thankful they were not there when this incident occurred. And ultimately, we are thankful that there was no loss of life.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the firefighters who were injured in the blast. We continue to lift you up as we pray for your recovery.

Our thoughts are also with our team, who have anticipated the move to our new location and understand the loss you are feeling right now. We feel it too, and we will work to create a path for moving forward, while supporting you.

To the community and to our referring partners, we are still at full functioning capacity at our location at ECVR on 50 Greenville Avenue. We are open for business and ready to care for your pet's needs. Thank you for being there for us, as we want to be there for you.

08/19/2025

As many in our community have already heard, an explosion occurred earlier this morning at our new building on New Centre Drive due to a car striking our gas supply line. Emergency crews are actively working to control the fire, and we are incredibly grateful for their ongoing efforts and bravery.

At this time, we are still gathering details and assessing the situation. We will share more information as soon as possible. We are grateful to report that the ECVMC staff and construction team are accounted for and safe. As this location is under construction, there were no pets on the premises.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out with concern and support. Your kindness and care remind us why this community is so special.

08/05/2025

Save the date!

Eastern Carolina Veterinary Medical Center will host an Open House and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on September 6th at 10:00 am. Mayor Saffo and other members of the Council will help us welcome you to our new facility. This is your chance to get a behind the scenes tour. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Click here to RSVP! https://www.facebook.com/share/15DbD9awax/

08/05/2025

Congratulations to all of our ECVR Superheroes! Shout out to Shana for receiving the most nominations, well done you deserve the recognition. Here are some of the Superheroes that you nominated. Thanks to Ellie for coordinating this fun opportunity to recognize our team.

08/05/2025

We are proud to be sponsoring Paws For The Cause on WSFX. Tune in on Fridays to learn about animals for adoption, hear from other agencies and pet supporting causes that support our community’s animals.

This week we spotlighted pets that are available at Animal Services. Nice job Jody!

https://youtu.be/ninHE7uyhPc?si=BPQh3ragTta46GM_
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07/27/2025

The team had a great time at the Bow Wow Luau and Cats Meow. Glad to have partnered with Heidi’s Hope for Homeless Animals and to support this event.