I had taken my dog, a great pyrenees/lab mix, to them for almost 3 years before I went back to All Valley. He was badly overweight when I got him from the shelter in 2012, pushing 140 lbs, but with di... Read More
I had taken my dog, a great pyrenees/lab mix, to them for almost 3 years before I went back to All Valley. He was badly overweight when I got him from the shelter in 2012, pushing 140 lbs, but with diet and exercise he went from fat to fit. GPs are LARGE dogs with deep chests and heavy frames. Adults can range from 150 to 200 lbs. He's about 3-4 yrs now, and a healthy 128 lbs. The vets at AMC kept telling me he should be 80 to 100 lbs. I talked to several people online and in person who raise GPs and they said for his mix he's about the right weight and has good definition.
What really killed it for me was last May, he got a goat head or something jammed in his paw and it got infected. He couldn't even walk on it. I took him in there 3 times between May and June and they said they couldn't find anything wrong, but kept prescribing high-end antibiotics and pain pills at almost $160 a pop, plus the clinic visit. By mid-June, his paw was getting worse, and the 3rd time I took him in the docs said they couldn't find anything wrong still.
I took him to All Valley and in 1 day they examined him and determined he had an infected pocket in one of his toes, xray'd his paw and asked me if they could operate. The infection was dangerously close to spreading deeper into his paw and getting into his leg. If I had waited any longer, they would have had to amputate his paw to keep him from becoming septic. He had not 1 but 2 docs work on him that very day, and I took him home that night. He had 4 follow ups, that included bandage changes, drain tubes and exams by techs AND docs and I was never charged an office visit. He was back to his old self in a month.
AMC was more concerned about selling me diet food and pushing pain pills. Read Less