I would highly advise against going to DePorre. Pierre DePorre killed my healthy 13 year old cat. I took my sweet Baxter in for a teeth cleaning, and DePorre pulled a tooth. He was given an antibio... Read More
I would highly advise against going to DePorre. Pierre DePorre killed my healthy 13 year old cat. I took my sweet Baxter in for a teeth cleaning, and DePorre pulled a tooth. He was given an antibiotic called Convenia. By the next day, Baxter still had not seemed to have recovered from the anesthesia, so I started investigating on the web. Do yourself and your pet a favor and Google it. It stays in the body for more than 100 days, so if your pet has a reaction, good-bye. I watched him die for 17 days. This drug should not be used except for a feral cat that cannot be given antibiotics on a daily basis. There are plenty of antibiotics that can be used that could be stopped in time if the pet has a reaction. DePorre would do nothing to help him when I took him back in. He denied it was the drug even though the drug fact sheet states that the anesthetic DePorre gave him was contraindicated with the use of Convenia. I took Baxter to Oakland Veterinary Referral Services. They also denied it was the drug. Please know that specialists depend on the referral of vets, and they will do everything to protect them. The day after Baxer died, DePorre left a message on my answering machine saying he was sorry to hear that Baxter died from liver cancer. He KNEW he didn't die from liver cancer. A couple of months later, I called the FDA to file an adverse drug reaction report. I was told that one had already been filed. Yep! DePorre had already filed an adverse drug reaction report. So, this is a vet that will kill your pet and then lie to you about it. Not only will you then have to suffer the devastation of a lost pet (and in my case, his litter mate had to also suffer his loss), but there is nothing you can do about it. Michigan law states that pets are nothing but property, so vets cannot be held accountable for malpractice. This law needs to be changed as it has been in many states. Stay away from DePorre if you value the life of your pet, and you want a vet that will be honest with you. Read Less