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| - My cat would be dead if I was still going here. This is a great place to go if you have a ton of money to burn on medications & tests that don't actually help your pet. My cat was rapidly losing weight. I noticed he was having trouble chewing his food. He'd stand over his food and water and try so hard to eat, and if he did, it LOOKED like he was having trouble. The following is the actual conversation I had with the vet:
Vet: (condescending) He's VERY skinny. He's lost A LOT of weight. This isn't good.
Me: Ummm...I know. That's why he's here. On a holiday.
Vet: Has he been eating?
Me: *blinks* .... Um....OK.....Well, it looks like he wants to eat. He tries, but I think it hurts him. Maybe something in his mouth. I tried to soften his food, but he won't eat it. He has trouble eating his wet food, too.
Vet: (opens mouth) Yes! Do you see the big hole in his back tooth? That tooth has 3 roots. It's probably giving him some trouble. We'll start by softening his food and giving him some wet food.
Me: ..... *blinks*
Vet: We'll give him some pain meds that will make him sleep.
Me: How can I get him to eat? He wants to eat, but he can't.
Vet: We can give him an appetite stimulant.
Me: .....*blinks*
Vet: And we need to do some liver & thyroid tests on him.
Me: He just had those done in October (it's January)
Vet: Well, we need to make sure it's not anything inside that's causing him distress. We'll call you tomorrow with the results. Oh, and here's some wet food to try. That'll be $300.
Next Day:
Vet: Hi, this is University Animal Hospital calling with your test results. It looks like your cat has a low red blood cell count
Me: Um....yes....he hasn't been eating, you know.
Vet: And it looks like he has a slightly elevated white blood cell count.
Me: He still hasn't eaten anything since yesterday.
Vet: OK, well we have some antibiotics for you to pick up for him. They're $40, and we have a few more tests that I'd like to do
Me: What about his tooth?
Vet: We have to make sure he doesn't have anything else going on first.
Me: *click*
I posted this conversation on my Facebook. Somebody suggested Anbesol and gave me a number of a different vet. I put some Anbesol on his tooth, and he ate like a horse and perked up, clearly feeling much better.
I have been given the number of a new vet, one that doesn't want to showboat their fancy lab or need me to pay for medical school. This vet didn't hear a word I said, and if I could walk in there and ask for a refund, I would. This is the second time this has happened to us in 6 months at University Animal Hospital. I wasn't the only person in the room who heard this conversation, and I asked him if I was crazy or did I hear the doctor wrong. He said no. He heard it, too. The doctor was very condescending about my cat's weight loss, yet under her expensive "stress & test" treatment plan, he ate less. I'm not impressed. In fact, I'm furious. Money is a little tight at the moment, and I would have rather spent $300 on a tooth extraction instead of a worthless test. Now I have to spend more money for another office call at another vet, plus treatment for the REAL problem. Such a waste. They care about money, not pets.
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