This WAS a great vet until founder dr Tom Green, Dr Lindsay Bailey, and Dr Steve Betton left. The remaining junior vets place profit over care. I paid $25 for 2 mos thyroid previously. Walgreens is ... Read More
This WAS a great vet until founder dr Tom Green, Dr Lindsay Bailey, and Dr Steve Betton left. The remaining junior vets place profit over care. I paid $25 for 2 mos thyroid previously. Walgreens is $15 with a pet discount card. Green belt charges $63 for ONE month. All vets. Are very young, don't listen, and are very condescending.They charged an astonishing $539 to clean my dog's teeth AND despite my warnings about her fear of kennels she came home with a raw bloody wound on her nose. I have rehabbed this dog twice, been to professional behaviorists and I KNOW my dog and how to train and treat her. I was assured she could hang out with the staff.They charged me several hundred dollars to send titers to Cornell and lied about the cost. I have Cornell's price sheet. A parvovirus/distemper titer combo is $15. I can understand fees for the draw and postage but over $200 AND offc visit too?I do not appreciate that they PUSH and overcharge the trash Hills Science Diet for EVERYTHING including a dental! See links below to facts on SDiet. They make a profit selling it at an average 100% markup. My prescriptions 600-800% markup. Many of the meds are available at local pharmacies. Pets are eligible for a discount card..Information on SD can be found on the FDA's animal website AAFCO. I'll put you some links at bottom, pet labels are confusing on purpose. This includes toxic ingredients, how to look for recalls/contamination. It's free with a question forum.. Bios of contibuting vets is linked at page top. Even though most vets are well intended they are NOT nutritionists. Get your info from the specialists.Armed with information go to your pet food's website and read, Google AAFCO corn gluten for example and read the truth. Remember ingredients are listed in order by WEIGHT. Concentrate on the first 7-10 ingredients, after that the amounts are so minute they contribute little or noting to the food or enough to beuseful to your pet. Pay special attention to the protein source and how it is added.Is the meat in your pet food road kill? Yes road kill, animals dead from unknown means, mixed species, by-products (defined as the inedible parts of no nutritional value to your pet, fillers of no nutritional value such as gluten etc.Roadkill? healthypets.mercola.com/…Exposing manufactures dirty tricks. Beware organic ingredients. Your food probably does have GMO ingredients unless specifically stated not. healthypets.mercola.com/…Ingredients are listed by weight. ALL meat is dried after weighing. 70% of meat weight is water and disappears when dried. If you feed kibble meat is NEVER by VOLUME the first ingredient on the list. This is why I feed canned. It is a myth that dry food keeps your dog's teeth cleaner, documented on the dog.answers link and many sources.Ingredients to avoid. healthypets.mercola.com/…The best foods to buy. healthypets.mercola.com/….Science Diet ingredients according to AAFCORefer to link dogs.answers.com/dog-beh…Google hill's science diet ingredients or be specific enter name from web ingredientsI randomly chose the first listed food, Adult Advanced Fitness Lamb & Rice kibble. All SD foods are touted on the main web site as having "Quality protein first ingredient." We know that is not true because 70% of that meat was water was water. That meat may be down to 20% nowNot a lie but misleading. This leaves the first ingredient by volume brewers rice, a grain by-product left over from milling rice. It is a carb (sugar) which provides energy but is of little nutritional value. Brown rice, same, carb, little nutritional value. Corn gluten meal is what's left after starch is washed off corn, it is considered filler and has no nutritional value. Next wheat is a carb and has no nutritional value. It is often allergenic, causes joint swelling. Gluten and wheat fill your dog without providing nutrition.SD now names their fat as pig fat instead of unnamed. Unnamed fat can include restaurant grease, expired grocery store meat, euthanized-dead animals from shelters, zoos, & vets., offal, slaughterhouse condemned carcasses, deaths from farms/in transit. The best meats and fats are those that are grass fed because they contain more omega 3 fatty acids. Pigs are not grazing animals and are fed pigs, dead animals, trash. They are not a grazing anOther help wholedogjournal.com Read Less