Dr. Amy Worrell should not be practicing veterinary medicine on exotic animals with her lack of knowledge, sympathy, and compassion. I recently took my rabbit named "Bunny" in after noticing she hadn... Read More
Dr. Amy Worrell should not be practicing veterinary medicine on exotic animals with her lack of knowledge, sympathy, and compassion. I recently took my rabbit named "Bunny" in after noticing she hadn't been eating or drinking and had a running nose and watery eyes. Although my rabbit was sick she could still move, hop, and was lively but after her visit with Dr. Worrell that all changed. I took the rabbit in and Dr. Worrell explained that the rabbit had pasteralla a bactria infection that presents itself as signs of a cold. She however also advised me there was something else wrong that she could not identify w/out doing x-rays, and that it may be gi stasis which she said was curable or ovarian cancer which was not. So she did the xray she stated she recommended treating the bunny for those two problems and if the third problem that may be ovarian cancer still existed then at least we gave the bunny a better life. Dr. Worrell never lead me to believe the situation would get worse from here or the bunny would have a bad reaction to anything done or administered by her office. So after $479.00 for everything needed to supposively treat bunny and two shots administered by Dr. Worrell, she advised us to take home bunny even after me and my mom asked if she needed to keep her over night for observation. So we took bunny home after only 2 hours from seeing the vet bunny could no longer stand and bunny passed away no longer then 5 hours from the time we took her to the vet. This however I knew was just not just a fluke, because I took my hamster to her named little bear 4 years before bunny and the same thing happened after her "care" by Dr. Worrell, so this was no coincidence or bad luck. Showing no sympathy for me just just losing my pet, the first thing the Dr. Worrell states is "so what happened".... I then asked her the same. She then stated that she didn't know. Sheeven stated herself her exact words " I often see and treat exotic animals and do not always know what wrong with them" . So as a vet do you often treat animals that go home and die after your care, and she flat out said "yes".... she then stated "I often send animals home and they die the next day because I don't know what's wrong" , I then asked why she didn't keep bunny overnight, she didn't really respond to that question however denied we ever asked it. "As a medical proffession for animals if you think something is seriously wrong, you should not have animal home." I stated, she just responded wirh "that's your opinion". She then stated that doing putting exotic animals through xrays can be dangerous and fatal due to stress levels. I then asked why she didn't inform me of this before I decided to do the xrays and she didn't respond. So without any sympathy caring or concern she refused to credit back any more of my money, even if she couldn't take back the medicine it would have been the right, humane thing to do. She pretty much admited she has no idea how to treat exotic animals and that they often die after her care. She is a cold, heartless, money grubbing and should not be treating animals. If you do not want your animal to suffer a horrible death, do not take your pet to Dr. Worrell. And if you have had a similar experience with this vet please email me at
[email protected] so we can do something to stop this vet from practicing.
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