Enjoli Gomez

Review of Black Mountain Road Pet Clinic

Brought my cat here a few years ago for a dental a...

Brought my cat here a few years ago for a dental and he died a few days later. Preface: My cat was having issues already so idk how much of what happened was due to the procedure or not. I made the appointment and was early. I ended up waiting for over an hour for the doctor to even show up to the office (did she sleep through her alarm clock?=unprofessional). She was nice. Did the initial exam and said she wasn t sure if the dental was the right thing to do for the problem (cat sneezing blood and puffed up eye). I had taken him to vsh where they told me he needed a $2k Ct scan of his face but I had just gotten hit by a truck and couldn t afford that due to having to pay my own medical bills. Because he had dental disease, I thought perhaps that was the cause. He needed a dental anyways because of gingivitis etc. I went ahead with it. My mistake. During the procedure the dr called and said that the dental was done and was not the cause of my cat sneezing blood. The puffed up place under his eye was still there and she suggested aspirating/opening it up to see what it was. I said yes, mistake 2-was this just to get money? Idk. There was nothing there once cut open. I got my cat back and he looked like the scarecrow stitched together (poor quality on the stitching-I m a vet tech). He was so drunk on the pain pills that he couldn t walk which I get. I called the office three times before I actually got someone on the phone who would help instead of just relaying back and forth and back and forth between dr and receptionist over two days. I lowered his dose like the dr office suggested but then he d just lay down and yell. He would lay on the ground laboring for breath and i didn t know what to do. I called them back and got no help. I m crying even now...years later. His paws started to get cold and his gums started to turn blue. He was dying in my arms. This little buddy of mine who helped me after the first few months of being bed ridden (broken from being hit by that truck) and he helped me get through very dark times and he was now in so much pain and I couldn t do anything to help or to preserve his life. I brought him to Dr. Boord at animal dermatology clinic, where I was just fired from not being able to work due to being hit by that truck (awkwardly saying hi to the people who just helped ruin me as I limped by carrying my dying cat) and she helped me put my cat down. During this he fought it, he started to push away like he didn t want to go and I am still struggling to this day about it. In fact currently sobbing. Dr. Boord said I did what I could and beyond for him but the guilt still looms. I went to the Humane Society for their pet loss group which was nice. The maybes creep in- maybe if I had continued to give him the pain meds, he d feel okay enough to breathe? or maybe if I wouldn t have done the dental at all (ended up being over 1k after everything anyways)? or or or...the end result was my cat dying and the hospital didn t give me any portion of the money back (shouldn t expect it but damn.). I know he would ve still been sneezing blood (probably cancer). I had a dream about him last night. Him and my other cat reunited and hugged and played and snuggled. I woke up in tears. Now my other cat needs a dental and I m so afraid. Idk where to take her, maybe vca?