This week, our team at Veterinarians.org released a study that focuses on Holiday Pet Safety. The study includes states with the most holiday searches for “Emergency Vets” and it was revealed that Colorado is the top state where the most people searched for this term on Google.
Does it mean Colorado is not a safe place for our dogs?
From mid-December of 2020 to the early weeks of January 2021, Colorado tops the list for the states that searched for “ER Vets”, and from December 2015 to December 2021, this state ranks as # 2.
Key Findings:
- From December 15, 2020-January 2, 2021 (a period that traditionally sees an increase in online searches for an emergency vet), Google searches for ‘ER vet’ were most popular in the state of Colorado, where searches were five times more popular than in California and Texas.
- Other states where Google searches for ‘ER vet’ were most popular during the specified time frame include Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Washington, California, and Texas.
- Colorado, Washington, Florida, Massachusetts, and Texas also rank in the Top 10 over the five-year period from December 2016 to December 2021 for states where searches for ‘ER vet’ have been the most popular overall. (Utah ranks as #1).
- The most common holiday hazards for pets include toxic plants, anti-freeze, rock salt, wired lights, broken ornaments, and toxic foods.
View the full study here.
For more information or to request an interview with Jamie Freyer, DVM, please get in touch with us at press@one.pet.
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