Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) at 260 North El Camino Real in Encinitas provides round-the-clock, every-day-of-the-year emergency veterinary care from an open-floor-plan hospital where pet owners remain with their animals through every phase of treatment, including surgery. Founded in 2014 by emergency veterinarian David Bessler and co-founder David Glattstein, VEG now operates over 85 hospitals across more than 25 states, and the Encinitas location serves as a primary after-hours referral destination for daytime practices including The Drake Center for Veterinary Care on the same El Camino Real corridor. The Encinitas hospital handles trauma, toxic ingestion, respiratory distress, foreign-body obstruction, organ dysfunction, and post-operative complications using on-site digital radiography, ultrasound, endoscopy, and an in-patient hospitalization ward. VEG Encinitas also operates a VEG Blood Bank for canine blood donations, storing whole blood and packed red-cell units that supply both the Encinitas hospital and neighboring veterinary clinics needing emergency transfusion products — a regional resource positioned near Annie's Canyon Trail at the San Elijo Lagoon trailhead. The emergency triage model bypasses waiting-room intake entirely, routing each arriving patient directly to a veterinarian for immediate assessment before any registration paperwork is completed.