I would give them 100 stars if I could.During a routine checkup with my, at the time, 3 year old kitty Penny, a previous vet found a very bad heart murmur. On a scale of 1-6 (6 the worst), Penny was a... Read More
I would give them 100 stars if I could.During a routine checkup with my, at the time, 3 year old kitty Penny, a previous vet found a very bad heart murmur. On a scale of 1-6 (6 the worst), Penny was at a 5 1/2 and the vet told me there was nothing we could do, and that Penny would not live long. I refused to accept this as I love her very much, and found Dr. Dose, who my family used to take pets to when I was a child, for a second opinion.Tom kept Penny for an entire day, doing x-rays, blood work, and a full check up to see her complete condition (this was very affordable, I must say only a couple hundred dollars even though she was there from 7 am- 5pm). When we met, Dr. Dose very thoroughly explained to me the murmur, showing me all the work they had done and where the backflow was, and what this meant for Penny. Her heart was deformed, and her little kitty heart was racing at an average resting rate of about 240 BMP (a healthy rate is 120-180ish). Dr. Dose said that we could give her a common beta blocker and monitor her heart rate, and after only about a month of me administering the medication and checking her heart rate at home, her rate had dropped to a steady 120-140. It has been five years, and Penny's murmur is completely gone, her heart has regrown, and Penny is a heart healthy kitty.Penny has had other issues -- she has bad skin allergies that caused her horrible constipation and vomiting that Tom was able to diagnose when I casually mentioned how much she loves to be brushed, which alerted him to the fact that she's itchy, and it caused her colon (which is made of -- tada! skin!) to swell and make her constipated. She occasionally gets medicine for allergies if she has a break out. Nice, easy fix.They are serious. They love animals--both Tom and Sharon. They know what they are doing and they truly want to take care of little fur babies AND their patients. I regularly get light headed and dizzy when talking about medical stuff and Dr. Dose knows the signs when I'm about to faint and takes me on walks outside and makes me laugh to get my heart rate back up. I don't know what I'd do without Dr. Dose to look after Penny and our other cats and be there any time I have a question, they are just a phone call away and always so glad to help me. They are straightforward and honest and people may see that as rude but they are truly wonderful vets! I would not recommend ANYONE else. Read Less