PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR PET HERE.I had previously looked online to find a vet who was close to my house and had decent reviews. Unfortunately, I had only read a few good ones. I didn't d... Read More
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR PET HERE.I had previously looked online to find a vet who was close to my house and had decent reviews. Unfortunately, I had only read a few good ones. I didn't do my homework before taking my baby to this clinic. What ensued was a terrible decision which caused extreme emotional distress and physical agony for both myself and my feline.She was scheduled to have a routine health checkup. The initial visit with the vet was not a pleasing one. He was rude and pompous from the very beginning. I had told him that I was looking for an easy way to clean her teeth. I stated that I do prefer the natural approach versus chemicals. I use coconut oil but wanted a professional opinion. He retorted with, "Yeah, and how's that working out for you?" in a very sarcastic tone. I stated not as great as hoped, that was the reason I was asking a doctor's opinion. Almost every time I made a comment or asked a question, he would meet me with a not very friendly statement. Of course, I am a novice Β compared to someone with a degree in veterinary medicine. Making your patient's/pet parent's feel ignorant isn't an appealing trait for someone in this field.However, this is not my main complaint.She also needed her nails cut, ears cleaned, and glands in her nether region squeezed. The technician who took Β her back returned her to me in about as little as 10 minutes.This seemed very quick for a 3 treatment routine. She left the room with high anxiety and returned even more shook up. The bill was around $200 for relatively small procedures that I believed would be around $100 or less. I wasn't in the mood to argue about it. My cat was clearly already in distress and the experience had been less than stellar. I wanted to leave.When she got home she was acting very strange. She was sluggish and immediately crawled into her bed. The next day is when I noticed the trouble starting. She was unable to walk straight, wobbling over, and her head was drooped to one side. I was extremely distraught and called the vet. I was told I'd receive a call back. I looked online and saw that some cats had experienced similar issues after having ear cleanings. I was hoping it was simply some water that had become lodged in her ear and would evaporate by the next day. I was wrong. It only because worse. She could not even stand up straight long enough to eat a few bites of food by the next day. She would fall over within seconds. I had to hold her and feed her like a baby. She wasn't responding to my voice when I spoke at a normal volume. Again, called the doctor and was told I'd receive a call back. By the third time I was more aggressive and let the secretary know that this was an emergency, and in the event I didn't get a call back, I would be pursuing legal action.I get a call back from the doctor 20 minutes later. He said that her symptoms were not too common and to bring her back in. I asked how they had cleaned her ears. He stated with ear irrigation. I asked whether a specialist did it or someone with no experience. I asked him whether it is usually simple ear irritation or permanent damage in these circumstances? He kept saying I needed to bring her in. I told him I didn't feel comfortable doing that after what already ensued.She still was not any better after 4 days. She was walking crookedly, couldn't eat without my help, and was of course unable to jump or play like her usual self. Β I took her to another vet. She looked in her ear canals and said that she wasn't 100% sure, but it could be a very irritated eardrum or a completely busted one. When I told her they gave her irrigation without a sedative she was very surprised. She told me that this is used with dogs but rarely with cats due to their sensitive canal. I was given prednisone and anti-fungal medicine since she had mild fungus in her ear. She told me in event she wasn't improving in about 10 days I should take her in for a CT scan which is $2,000! A normally very healthy & active cat able to jump onto a 10 foot feline castle within 3 seconds was now unable to feed herself, barely walk, or jump. Every two feet she would fall over. This is my child. To have such a devastating experience happen to her was breaking my heart.I gave her the two and a half weeks of prednisone and saw some improvement. Still, two months later, she is not the same. It took an entire month for her to regain the ability to walk straight and feed herself. A month and a half to jump onto the couch. She still cannot jump to the height she did beforehand or run like she used to and gets dizzy and will fall over several times a day. I have been hoping that after a couple more weeks, I will see full improvement. In the case that doesn't happen, I will need to take her in for a $2,000 CT scan!All this because I took her to Cheyenne Tonopah to have her ears cleaned! I have thought about proceeding with legal action & am still considering it. Read Less