Some of the pros of this office are that walk ins are welcome and their hours great for some of the emergencies that may occur after 6pm. The waiting area is overall clean, but the front desk staff seems to at times be scattered. We brought in our elderly Jack Russell due to the fact that he was obviously in pain. He was shaking, softly whimpering and was becoming incontinent. They move you along quickly from the waiting area, but then you wait an eternity for the vet to come into the room. The rooms are not well ventilated and it starts to get pretty toasty really fast. I've had to leave and go into the waiting area to cool off several times.
When the vet did come, she couldn't provide us with many answers. Her guess was that he tweaked his neck jumping off furniture because he refused to turn his head a certain way. We opted for blood work to be done and although there were some "concerning" things, since they were not accompanied by additional symptoms the vet dismissed them as possible causes for concern. She sent us home with six different medications ranging from antacids and a medication to help coat his stomach before the strong pain and anti inflammation pills were administered to tramadol and other medication for the inflammation and spasm.
About a day later our dog started having seizures; 2-3 a day lasting a few minutes each. When I brought this up to the vet she felt that this was what caused his pain. He must have fallen during a seizure we missed and tweaked something. She was going to have him put on yet another medication to treat his seizures. I am not sure how we would have missed his previous seizures and suddenly started catching on after he started taking the meds. A few days later his seizures seemed to stop. He even looked like he might have started to perk up a bit. Until the late evening when he vomited his entire undigested breakfast. He started to hide in odd, dark places and soil himself. The next day he passed away as I held him in my arms. It was incredibly heartbreaking, but we found solace in the fact that he was no longer suffering and he passed surrounded by those who loved him the most.
Ultimately the visit to the vet and the money spent were pointless. All the medication did was cause him to suffer even more by adding seizures to the list of ailments. After doing some research I found out that tramadol was notorious for causing seizures. That should have tipped the vet off when we spoke on the phone a few days later. Instead she assumed this was happening all along and we just somehow missed it.