‘We're All in the Same Boat’

So in Jackson, if Buddy gets into some peanut butter rat poison or Milo chokes on a huge hairball, help exists, but only during the day.

For nighttime emergencies, pets, or really owners with pets, have to make the trek to Idaho Falls.

It's about two hours away.

Veterinary Pulse Alliance is trying to change that.

As KHOL's Evan Robinson Johnson reports, the new nonprofit has deep ties to Jackson's vet community.

It's raising $3 million to open an after-hours clinic.

What's okay? Who do you hear?

Lisa Lent has learned a lot from her blind golden doodle Maya, heard here in a voice memo.

also known as Maya Bear.

She's nine now.

But when another dog attacked Maya three months ago, they learned together how isolated Jackson can be.

She had a pretty large gaping wound in her neck area, and it was a Saturday night at, you know, 10.30 at night at this point.

They could have waited until the morning.

But just because I'm a very scared dog mama...

My husband and I got in the car and drove all the way to Idaho Falls.

It was a scary couple of hours to the nearest emergency clinic.

You're holding your dog in your lap and just, you know, praying that

you

drive faster.

It's a familiar reality.

Morgan McGlashan and her border collie Neve did the drive in a blizzard.

So I was in the back of the car trying to force seed.

our dog with black charcoal.

If their furry companions get sick after 5 p.m., there's a good chance owners have to journey over a mountain pass for emergency care.

Here's vet tech Sumaya Holden.