AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE
I would advise anyone who wants their pet to live to avoid this surgery at all costs.
My dog, luckily, did pull through, but only due to my constant nursing and vigilence for 5 weeks and her being a strong, young dog.
The quote for the operation rose a whopping £600 in the course of a day. They did not give the right medications; they took so much tissue from my dog's leg, leaving her looking like she was bitten by a shark; the aftercare was severely lacking, and all they really seemed to care about was making more money - you should see their markup on basic antibiotics - 5 times the price of buying online, plus a whopping dispensing fee. My dog had so many avoidable complications due to their carelessness.
I had already had a poor experience with them last year, when I'd taken my other dog in for one thing, and they had left this ignored and untreated but managed to charge me an inflated amount for a prescription for items I had said I didn't want or need. Again, I was left to my own devices to get my dog back to health.
And woe betides you should want to complain! The practice director will patronise you (I even got told what a fine needle aspiration was, despite being present when it was carried out), give generic answers that are not specific to your pet, and do anything but answer the question. They had CCTV that proved a lot of my assertions, but this person decided she would say what had happened, and that contemporaneous evidence doesn't actually count.
I am going to escalate, as their whole behaviour has been unacceptable. I would advise anyone to save yourself the trouble, and look elsewhere.
It is a shame - yes, the admin stinks, prices are horrendous and the vets are useless; but the nursing staff are actually very good.








