From broken legs to a punky pancreas, here’s what a night in Fargo’s animal ER is like

The adorable Cavalier King Charles mix puppy is acting very unpuppy-like: He is lethargic and doesn’t have an appetite.

Veterinary technician Carlene Ternes holds the tiny, white-and-ginger puppy up into the air and gazes at his fuzzy, teddy-bear face.

”He’s not eating, but his tail works,” she reports, grinning.

Logan is just one of the many patients spending Friday night at the Red River Animal Emergency Hospital and Referral Center. The 24/7 emergency veterinary hospital — the only one in North Dakota or western Minnesota — treated somewhere between 18,000 and 20,000 patients last year, according to Dr. Andy Carver, the hospital’s director and the first board-certified specialist in emergency and critical care in North Dakota.

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In fact, the 11,000-square-foot hospital is so busy that plans are underway to add a $6 million, 17,000-square-foot addition to the building at 4491 23rd Ave. S., Fargo. The hospital will also add 20

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