4 years ago
THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY'RE DOING. We visited h...
THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY'RE DOING. We visited here with one of my cats after moving to the area trying to find a good vet. We knew our cat would need a dental cleaning and several extractions going into the appointment. My cat had severe stomatitis and needed a full mouth extraction, so we scheduled the surgery for ASAP after the initial appointment. They were scheduling surgeries three weeks out. Ok, all good. Just get him in as soon as possible - he was in a lot of pain with his diseased teeth. We bring him in for surgery, the tech doing his intake was short with us and seemed to be annoyed that we were asking questions about the procedure. I mentioned to her I had a couple other concerns about his health and she said she'd mention them to the doctor. Finally, she took our cat and told us they'd call when he was waking up and he would most likely be ready around 3:30 or 4.
We got a call around 1:30 saying he would be ready to be picked up at 5:15, 45 minutes before they close. The woman on the phone was trying to be kind and wanted to reassure us that even though surgeries like this could be intimidating but once he was healed he would be able to eat hard food again if he wanted to and he would live a completely normal life, which we know is true as we have another cat with only 4 teeth who eats dry food and is healthy as can be. When we arrived to pick him up, Dr. Graf did not come out to speak with us at all but was going to each of the other cars to speak with the other pet owners, and the tech we spoke to told us (conflicting with her coworker and every vet we've ever seen) that he would never eat dry food again, and that he would be on a wet diet for the rest of his life. We were warned that he would be loopy once we got home and that they tried to clean him up but he was still drooling a bit of blood. They never mentioned if the doctor examined the other health concerns we had asked about at his intake. Once we got home, our cat was so high still he was unable to stand or walk and was in a panic. I may have skewed experiences, but I have never had a pet come off anesthesia so poorly. He had blood all over his chest and front paws. They said they had tried to clean him but there was still pure blood on him and he was no longer bleeding, just drooling watered down blood and saliva so they had just left the blood on him and got too busy to clean it. When I tried to call to make sure all of this was normal at 5:50pm, they did not answer even though they close at 6 so I had to call the ER Vet. I recommend CatTails Feline Health Center for your cats! They are always amazing.
Oh and this is just a dumb nitpick, but it s strange that you ll be charged $10 to clip your cats nails while they re under anesthesia. I m already paying you $1300, you can t just clip em real quick while he s asleep? CatTails will do it for free with any exam :)
Edit: I was advised by the new clinic I will be taking my cat to to keep an eye on his healing and try to continue care at Fountain Creek until they could see him in a few weeks. When I had to go back to Fountain Creek, Amanda (the owner) apologized for my previous experience as she had seen my review. I felt that we could withstand staying with them until his new clinic visit so Dr. Graf could monitor his healing process as he had performed the surgery. I called Fountain Creek a week after his surgery to express concerns about his wounds and pain, and they said he should be fine but to keep monitoring him and to call if anything changes. He developed new symptoms over the next few days that I felt the need to seek help about, and when I called again to express concern and see if they needed to see him in the clinic, they "client-fired" me and told me that they wouldn't see me as I had switched my care to another clinic (that he can't be seen at for his new patient exam for another week). I thought I might have been wrong about them after the owner addressed my issues, but they just further proved my point. Petty AF.