Greater Cincinnati Veterinary

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Kasey Justice

Angry hedgie owner..I WILL NEVER BRING AN ANIMAL HERE AND I WILL NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE TO ANYONE! If I could remember the vets name I would include it. I live in Cincinnati area of Ohio and I read great reviews on this place so I figured it would be worth the drive..turned out to be the biggest waste of my time and money. I brought my hedgehog in for an emergency around 12/1 am. It looked as if he pooped out some type of organ or intestine and his fecal smelled of death. I put what looked to be like an organ and some of the fecal in a bag and brought it with me figuring the vet would be able to tell right away if it was something serious. Might I add this place is supposed to be for exotics too.. The vet tech and receptionist were very nice but that was about the only good thing from this place. The tech was frightened to hold my hedgie just to get a weight and the actual veterinarian was scared to hold him too! The vet looked at him for less than 1 minute and then came to the conclusion that he needed to be put under anesthesia. I understand when hedgehogs are scared, they curl in a ball and can hurt a bit but an exotics vet should know how to simply hold a hedgie so they dont curl into a ball. My regular veterinarian, Dr. Dahlhausen (not a 24/7 vet) can give my hedgehog a full physical exam, checking in the mouth too, without even mentioning anesthesia. The vet looked at the bag of fecal I brought in for merely 10 seconds and didnt tell me anything about it. If you are an exotics vet, you should be able to tell me right away if what I brought in was really a body part or just a foreign object. The vet told me about all these studies on hedgehogs, nothing about his stool. The vet wanted to preform x-rays to look for tumors, there was no reason to look for cancer when I brought him in for a foreign body. He tried charging me $40 for a fecal float which is used to find parasites. Might I add Im currently in school to be a veterinary technician and my hedgehog had no symptoms of parasites. I could take my hedgie to a regular vet for a fecal float coasting $10, $20 max. On top of that they added a antibiotic to my estimate they gave me and they didnt even know if he needed medication or what kind, they were just going to send me home with some type of medication. When I declined all of the options that the veterinarian had given me a discharge paper. The first sentence of this paper said "You brought Story in for diarrhea......." Thats when I really got angry. Not once did the word diarrhea leave my mouth. My hedgies stool was great and normal! I brought my hedgehog in because I thought he pooped out an organ along with dead smelling feces. I had fecal in the bag I brought in and if the vet did his job, listened and was actually educated like hes supposed to be, he would of saw and realized that my hedgehogs stool was normal. I was right when he kept trying to treat my hedgie for diarrhea and things that cause diarrhea. I am glad I declined everything because that vet could of harmed or even killed my hedgehog by putting him under anesthesia especially because he is only 0.5lbs. The next day I brought the fecal sample in to my teacher who is an expert in exotics and she looked at my sample for 2 seconds and told me what I thought was an organ was just a foreign body and he must of gotten into something he shouldnt of. Obviously the vet here had no idea what he was doing or he just flat out didnt care for my pet and was just trying to get money. I shouldnt of even paid the $80 exam visit because the vet was no help what so ever. I knew more about hedgehogs than he did.

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Melissa Creed

This is a long overdue review of a HORRIBLE place. I wish I could say they have changed, but the same sorry excuse for a vet is still there so I highly doubt it. I would not recommend this place to my worst enemy. I took my cat on a Sunday when my regular vet was closed. He was vomiting a lot, not eating, and lethargic. He has been known to try to eat string and although very careful to make sure none is left out for him to get to, I was worried he may have ingested some. After being placed in a room I waited over three hours for a vet to even look at him. They decided he should be kept overnight for IV fluids and to have the specialist, Dr. Bruner, look at him the next day. This so called specialist wound up keeping my cat there for 13 days. He scoped to check for string or foreign objects and when that was negative started running other tests. He ran multiple tests and labs for anything that may be related to the intestinal system and started him on various different appetite stimulants. All tests and labs always came back normal. During this time, I went to visit my cat every single day. It made me mad that when they brought him into the room he always appeared dirty and unkempt. The thing that made me furious though, is that during all of this so called important testing I kept questioning the fact that I noticed green snot crusted on his nasal area and he sounded congested. I asked numerous times if it is possible that he had a bad respiratory infection causing the symptoms and was always told no. I was looked at as if I was an idiot for even suggesting this, even though I am an RN who frequently still had my scrubs and badge on when I would come visit him. Finally on the 13th day Dr. Bruner started talking about maybe having to euthanize him. At that point, I said no and insisted on just taking him home instead. I did not plan on actually taking him home, but instead to MedVet in Cincinnati. I just did not want to tell them that because I feared they would not release him to me. I paid their ridiculous bill of over $3500 and walked out with my cat. Drove him immediately to MedVet where I waited less than an hour to be seen. I discussed with the two vets who came to examine him everything that had gone on and my concerns over it simply being an untreated respiratory infection. They examined him and immediately agreed it was a severe upper respiratory infection. They started fluids, antibiotics, and kept him overnight. He was able to come home with me the next day. Over three years later I am happy to say my cat is still alive and well thanks to MedVet. Had I left the decision to these idiots he would be dead.

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Brandy Ray

Long read but it could save your animals life! Horrible....was told my dog had severe anemia and may not make it through the night...vet tech repeated several times..."there are cheaper options" as I sobbed over being told that if could not pay for blood tranfusions...coukd take afew...he will die painfully ftom his severe anemia.They had no humanity and did not see him as a life...pushed to either do transfusion or put him down ...no real explanation of what caused this deadly state of anemia they claimed.Said he may be losing blood, could be infection, cancer, and he is old...but apparently no need to check those...I asked if they could do any steroids or other options...surprise...they suggested euthanasia!!! 400 dollars later they gave him a steroid pill and sent him out in a lethargic state. I had to ask if they would please give me a script of steroids for home...vet tech gave me a goofy smile to reassure me he was just going to die...but must of figured why not just get more money out of me...she got him a steroid script they filled for another 25or 30 bucks ... Cant remember as the point of this review is not amount money but this locations disregarding the importance of life outside of humans. ....happy to say after 4 days of lethargy and no eating...he ate a meal today and ran around...steriods I had to ask for/demand started working....judging from another behavior in back yard...it was a stomach or intestional blockage and he is now hungry again. I still here that horrid vet tech chiming in while I cried discussing what we should do with family..."there are cheaper options"..."we can euthanize him right now."....please ....even in an emergency take the time to read reviews and ask around...i wish I would have read others on here....these animals are your fur kids and deserve to be treated like a living being....thank God I left that horrible place not listening to their staff encouraging me to kill him and making me feel like a bad person for not wanting to put my fur child down....i spent 2 days thinking I was selfish for not putting him to sleep as he had "deadly anemia" is really old and was dying... he is now seeing another vet....amazing how his deadly anemia disappeared with stetiods and a bowel movement....