Danie Packard

Review of Orchard Park Veterinary Medica...

We had an emergency and were sent here after our d...

We had an emergency and were sent here after our dog was stabilized by a local vet. We regretted the situation. We were separated from her immediately while she was conscious and in critical condition. Our other vets would not so this. It turns out they had flipped her over, off of the side where she was hit, and were pulling fresh blood out of her chest cavity. She had been stabilized in the other posotion for 2 hours. They came in to tell us she was bleeding so much and it would cost 14,000 or more to have a surgeon find out where she was bleeding from. By the time they let us go in to see her we had very little time to consider whether we should try some transfusions, she began screaming, and we had to put her down. She was a very important part of our lives, a still very young and working dog on our farm, with such awesome gifts with people...it just seemed silly that these people are here all night and didn't seem to even want to try to save her life. The surgeon wasn't even there! We wish we had taken her to our vet in Randolf. He would have taken care without charging so many thousands and would have kept us with her to see what was happening until we figured out what to do. I am sorry to give a bad review. I don't even know who to talk to there, but I realize they can do good there also, and hope the best for them.