Show me the money! This place is about money. I've had two very different experiences here. One through the ospca and one on my own. Purchasing an animal through the ospca was simple and was a reasona... Read More
Show me the money! This place is about money. I've had two very different experiences here. One through the ospca and one on my own. Purchasing an animal through the ospca was simple and was a reasonable package cost with everything included, shots, spay/neuter etc... All done through the vet. However, if you actually take an animal in off the street.... Look out.
We went in for worm medicine.... That's it. So they sent us home with some medicine.... After trying to sell every shot imaginable. So they start of with the lowest dose. It didn't work. After research we come back in. They want to sell the lowest dose again (research recommend a higher dose if the first treatment failed). I ask for the next recommended dosage.... No we can't do that. The vet needs to look at her first. 86 dollars please. So I says to her, I says I says; no that's ok thanks, I would just like to get the second recommended dosage because the lower dosage didn't work, thank you.
After this went back and forth for a while it came down to, I'll have to ask the doctor if I can do that... Ok... Walks out, and 15 seconds later comes back with the higher dose.... Several days later, no worms, happy animal.
Anyhow, the long and the short if it is, you have to fight to say no to all the up-selling and then fight to get what you need because they won't sell it to you unless you give in to the up-selling, and then you have to threaten to leave and go elsewhere without buying anything and then deal with the condescending scowls because you won't buy everything that you could possibly inject into or stuff down your pets throat.
OSPCA, lovely organizing. I will give extra to them because they do good work. Bracebridge animal hospital; if it was legal they would probably ask for your visa pin number and security code and then scowl because you didn't happily offer to authorize automatic withdrawals on top of it.
Bah! Read Less