The best way for me to review/explain this animal hospital is just to copy and paste the letter that I wrote to the veterinarian that treated my beloved pet who passed away on Memorial Day 2018. *****... Read More
The best way for me to review/explain this animal hospital is just to copy and paste the letter that I wrote to the veterinarian that treated my beloved pet who passed away on Memorial Day 2018. **************PLEASE READ THIS AND PASS IT ON!***************It's been two years since you diagnosed Pumpkin-head with renal failure.Over the course of his life I literally spent thousands of dollars at Cypress Creek Animal Hospital. After Pumpkin passed on Memorial Day, I sent your office an email message to inform you. A day or two later, I stopped by and donated well over $70.00 worth of left over medical supplies.The female employee of yours that you delegated to call me on Pumpkin's first bloodwork never once told me to bring Pumpkin back in for more bloodwork in two weeks or even six weeks. Can I blame her? No, her boss should have known better than to delegate such vital information to an incompetent employee. What she said on my home-phone answering service was and I quote: "Except for one protein that was slightly higher than the normal range, which could have been caused by a high protein meal, Pumpkin-head's bloodwork look normal." This message is still on my answering machine.About an hour and a half or so before I brought him in that day, the two of us shared a can of Tuna. You, Dr. Whitten, drop the ball when you delegated something this vitally important to an incompetent employee which I am sure you never took action against.When I initially brought my beloved buddy to you, I told you that I thought he was diabetic because he was drinking a pint to a pint and a half of water a day. That's like you drinking 10--15 gallon of water a day. Within in a few minutes, you ruled out diabetes. What I would like to know is why you did not immediately rule in possible kidney failure? According to three other vet's that I have spoken to, even though you were not sure it was kidney failure, you should have put him on the kidney friendly diet immediately and rechecked his bloodwork in 2 weeks. At that time, a correct diagnosis or even just the kidney friendly diet would have saved most of his kidneys, extended his life greatly; and it would have saved me thousands of dollars.Since Pumpkin's diagnosis, I have spoken to 3 other veterinarians (2 while he was under your care and another one yesterday). The only information that I gave any of them was Pumpkin's excessive water drinking. Without looking at him, all three veterinarians immediately came back with diabetes or kidney failure. One of them added possible liver problems to this very short list of possible diagnoses. When I told them that I had already ruled out diabetes, kidney failure was the unanimous diagnose. When I type this same symptom into any Internet search engine, it always comes back with only two possibilities--diabetes or kidney failure.How in the hell did you miss this? Or did you? Why didn't you put him on a kidney friendly diet then? As far as I am concerned, you killed my best friend by delegating your job to an incompetent employee and waiting until Pumpkin-head was half dead to change his diagnosis and diet. If you would have recommended a diet change when we first came in, it would have saved most of his kidneys. I guess you know that if Pumpkin had been human, I would own you for your sloppy work! If Florida pet laws were different, I would have you in court tomorrow.In closing, I wanted to tell you that I will be posting Cypress Creek Animal Hospital reviews online everywhere possible. I will tell everyone that I possible can about how your carelessness cost my beloved pet his life while you milked me for thousands of dollars. I will state that after thousands of dollars spent at C.C.A.H, none of you had the common courtesy to even send out a sympathy card because it would affect your bottom-line. I will state how you charged me $18.00 for one pill that I later bought online for $1.10; and when I confronted you about it, you looked me dead in the eye and told me that you were expensive. I will tell them how pets' lives mean nothing when it comes to your bottom-line. I will let them know that I have paperwork from your office, receipts from veterinarian supply stores, a recorded phone message, and other veterinarians' opinions to prove that everything that I state is true.I hope this letter makes your day as enjoyable as my Memorial Day.Rick Meredith Read Less