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| - I originally went to Avon Lake Animal Clinic because I wanted my 14 year old dog to have access to alternative therapies and according to the website I felt I might find what I was looking for at Avon Lake. Here is what I found instead:
- Upon my first visit (with Dr. Haddad) my dog was given an unnecessary heartworm vaccination (it was clearly indicated he'd already had it in the records that Haddad looked at). A minor red flag, but not enough to make me go elsewhere.
- My dog began having back pain associate with hip dysplasia and IVDD. I went to another vet (Dr. Letosky) because according to her profile she was knowledgeable about alternative therapies - laser, water, etc.. And here is where the real nightmare began.
Over the course of my visits to her, Dr. Letosky completely discouraged any kind of alternative treatment for my dog. Instead, within three visits I received a cabinet full of medications, some of which can have substantial side effects: Prednisone, Rimadyl, in addition to Hycodan, and Gabapentin (which is usually prescribed with a less toxic drug known as Tramadol, which she refused to prescribe without providing a valid reason.
- What concerned me as much, if not more than the over-medicating, was Dr. Letosky's unwillingness to deal in a professional manner with valid questions about these medications as well as the possible cause for my dog's back pain - (a qualified radiologist that does not work at the clinic had offered a different diagnosis than the one she was offering me,) so I politely asked her about this discrepancy. Her tone became more and more condescending until it descended into rudeness.
I've been going to vets' offices for 14 years and know by now that when a vet cannot handle questions it is because they are trying to cover up their own incompetence. This became clear to me when Letosky said that congestive heart failure and coughing do not have anything to do with one another and told me to just "get that out of my head." Hopefully, your pet will never have CHF, but if they do, you will most certainly hear every competent vet tell you that your pet will likely develop a cough as fluid builds in the lungs.
This is a place to take your pet if you just need annual vaccinations and are willing to have absolute blind trust in what a vet is telling you. The egos here are just too big to handle questions.
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