I Took my 11 year old Cat "Dickens" there on the 22nd of NOV, the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2015. She was having trouble breathing. They said this was due to some trauma, which made her lungs fill wi... Read More
I Took my 11 year old Cat "Dickens" there on the 22nd of NOV, the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2015. She was having trouble breathing. They said this was due to some trauma, which made her lungs fill with fluid as a result. On her X rays they said they could see 3 broken tips on her vertebrae and the Dr added, that they could tell they were fresh recent breaks. He was so sure that all she needed was oxygen that he never recommended any antibiotics. He said the only way for her to get better was to spend time in oxygen. So needless to say with oxygen priced @ $200, per 8 hours, I had to move her to my regular vet...
By the time I was leaving a lady Dr had come in and she did attempt to be helpful, with oxygen and a oxygen kennel cover, to help my vet out, but it turned out they sent it over with about half the parts so it was useless to them except the frame, so my vet used the Oxygen they use in surgery and made up something from scratch around it... but then I got yelled at by one of the staff that night when I bought it back because she had loaned to me, and I should pay them for the privilege.... Really? .
Now at my regular vets the Drs there agreed with one of their techs , who I had spoken to that morning. That the injury on her back was an old one as you could never pet her on her back if it was fresh, which they were doing right in front of me. Dickens never had a problem with being petted on her back in any way shape or form since then either , Neither I or my wife, can remember any time when Dickens had any problem with her back ? . ... Also they added that you can't tell by an x ray when the tips were broken off?
So my regular vets gave her antibiotics and bronchodilators, diagnosing her with pneumonia, and she came home that night.... , and was doing fine for about 4 weeks. Unfortunately they think she developed some kind of asthma which they think brought on the pneumonia, and my poor baby couldn't breath, actually dying from it on January 9th. She is missed terribly by both my wife and myself...
So I won't ever take another cat here much less one of the ferals I take care of as well because they blew the call. Obviously they were wrong on trauma only and could have at least considered trauma plus an infection, which would have been a far more credible position to take, and for God's sake before making a call on trauma, where applicable , please pet the cat first! Read Less