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I am switching vets. I do the right thing by having my animals spayed or neutered. Everytime one comes back from this vet, the cat is sneezing and hacking. This in turn causes my other cats to do the same thing. Nothing you can do but let it run its course. I send my animals there healthy and they come back sick.

This vet should isolate sick animals. He will be sorry losing my business because I am taking about 15 cats, 8 dogs and 5 horses from him. I am sure I can find a vet that will provide better care than what I get from the vet I am using now.

Also, this vet lost almost all of the animals sheltered there for Katrina. They all drowned. He tried to cover it up and pay people off. My horses were supposed to be safe at his farm and I lost two.

He KNOWS not to mess around with my animals too.

I don't blame you, Linda. Either he's incompetent or too busy for his own good. Maybe you can negotiate a volume discount with a new vet.

He has too many idiots working for him. You'd think with that many somebody would do their job. I was supposed to get a call the day before his surgery and did not hear one word. Thank goodness I remembered. You have to schedule surgery so far in advance now and he only performs three a day. My Pomeranian has to have knee surgery on both hind legs. He is the one who told me that then gave me a price. As I was leaving that day, one of the girls said "Oh, he is going to do it?" I thought what an idiot! Why would he bother if he is not going to do it.

I have her scheduled to have the surgery at LSU. I researched and dug around and found that they are the best. I LOVE Tulane, but they are so backed up. If I do not get this done now, she will be lame.

What kind of surgery is your pom having? Our dog Chica had a TPLO done several years ago after she blew out her ACL doing a quick turn at the end of her morning fence run with the dog next door. I have never heard any animal scream like that, and hope never to hear it again.

Since it happened on a weekend, we had to go to a different vet. That idiot told us it was sprained toes! We knew he was a quack, and when our good vet was back in his office, he correctly diagnosed the problem. The surgery was pretty expensive - about $2,500 if I remember correctly, but at least she has the use of the leg back. Now we just battle the arthritis at the surgery site with deramax and she's doing great. We are also lucky to have a pool - swimming is great for humans and dogs as a physical therapy tool.

After any leg surgery on a dog, you'll really need to keep up the regular walking. Dave and I learned the hard way that even after Chica seemed recovered, she really needed regular exercise to stay that way. A few months ago she started falling down - just standing there and BOOM! Down went the backside. It took a couple months of building her up slowly (and myself I might add!) and increasing the walking time, but now she's just about back to her old self. And I do mean old - she's 12 now, but is acting half her age again.

Both back leg joints. Instead of hers being straight, they are turned out. She limps and whimpers sometimes. The cost is 500.00 a leg. Maxie is only 3 years old. I saved the money to have it done and is why I scheduled the surgery. We are only doing one leg at a time though. Going to let one heal and then we will do the other one. The bad one is the one being operated on first.

Boy you are more patient than I. I would agree that it is time to find a new vet.

I think you should spread the word about this vet clinic so other people dont make the same mistake

We are so very lucky in Houston to have access to Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists. This is the kind of place like you see on Animal Plant's "Emergency Vets" - they pretty much practice "people medicine" on animals. They did Chica's surgery and also took wonderful care of our old dog Travis when he had pancreatitis. We ultimately had to make the awful decision to euthanize, and I totally freaked out. Guess I made an impression on the attending vet because a few days later, he sent us a letter saying he had made a donation to one of the GCVS charitable funds in Travis's name. Ain't that something!
Linda, I so wish you could find a place like that in your area. They're expensive, yes, but so worth it.

http://www.gcvs.com/Default.htm

I took a sick horse all the way to Tulane. Houston would not be a problem. Thanks Jen!