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| - Gilbert Animal Hospital was recommended to me by someone else on YELP! and I cannot thank him enough! We have a 14 year old cat that developed a strange illness about 4 years ago, out of the blue. It took 4 vet clinics, and countless 2nd and 3rd opinion vets at each clinic, to finally treat her appropriately. I thought we would never get her healed and her quality of life came into question. Most vets treated her symptoms but could not cure her long term and each time her symptoms came back they would be with a vengeance. She became withdrawn, evil to deal with because she didn't feel well, didn't want to be touched, and had open sores on her belly that she self mutilated. Finally, it was Dr. Dudley at Gilbert Veterinary who was able to pinpoint exactly what was wrong and how to treat it! Hallelujah! Now with twice weekly meds I have my girl back- her belly is completely healed, she acts like she feels like a million bucks, and is friendly again. What I thought was a last ditch effort by seeing yet another vet, and my next decision would be whether or not to let her continue suffering without quality of life, turned out to be a lifesaver! It has truly been a miracle!
When one of our dogs came down with a mystery illness, we started seeing another vet at the practice first. Narrowing down what he had wasn't easy. Valley Fever? A back injury? Nothing made sense and every day he was a little worse off until he couldn't walk at all on his own. Dr. Dudley came in and, once again, saved the day. Lyme disease was the culprit. Not common for the area, but sure enough we had recently been hiking. The day we started treating it correctly it was another miracle and he was almost instantly his old self again.
Dr. Dudley has returned phone calls on weekends, late into the evening, called just to check up on them after we've been in with concerns, and offered different levels of treatment for different price points. I have never felt pressure from her to run tests, get vaccines they may not need, etc. I feel like she is just as concerned about the care of my "kids" as I am and uses a common sense approach to treatments. Our animals have all seen other vets at this practice for check ups and vaccines and they are all super nice. Our first choice will always be Dr. Dudley since we feel she has saved the lives of 2 out of 3 of our pets.
With that all being said, we have been to one vet at the practice that I do feel pushes extra tests that aren't necessary and treatment options for "possible illnesses" without concrete evidence as other reviewers have noted. We have just learned to ask for Dr. Dudley first and if she isn't available and we can't change the day, we have several others we ask for to not see the one we haven't had exceptional service from. I feel, in comparison to other vets we have experienced in the valley, you can't go wrong with this veterinary office.
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