EUCLID, Ohio (WOIO) - Beginning Friday night, the Lakeland Animal Clinic will become one of the few on the East side with late-hour urgent care services.

“Everything that’s urgent to you is urgent to us,” Dr. Karim Malak said in an interview with 19 News.

The facility that overlooks I-90 along Lakeland Boulevard will now have staff available Friday through Monday nights from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The first of these shifts will start this Friday night. “I know there will be growing pains, but we have one of the most amazing teams behind us,” Dr. Malak said.

The choice resonates with the clients 19 News spoke to today, including Katie Ferguson. She frequently brings her five cats to the clinic, all of which have special needs: Beep, Simon, Ralph, Olive and Sand.

“They’ve needed amputations

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