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    Banfield Pet Hospital

    3.0 (107 reviews)
    Closed • 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Pet vaccinations

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    Cat is in distress been waiting over 20 mins
    Josette L.

    Currently waiting still for my cat to be even checked in. Crazy that we pay the insurance and yet we can almost never bring them in on emergency (yet this is why we pay for the insurance and the hospital) there is only ever one person and whenever we ask the staff why they always make sure to remind us that they are constantly understaffed or short on doctors or technicians. When we have brought our dogs in before and they are immensely thirsty and stressed from the hours they have to stay tucked in a cage without food and water. At times we've done a drop off at 930 and not been allowed to pick them up until 4 pm when they are ready and yet at times they are only coming in for shots. Something must be done to insure the health and safety of these animals.

    On their system it said 3:00, but on our end it said 3:30.
    Krislam C.

    Take your fur baby somewhere else. I've been holding off on a review because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. But today was just a super bummer on top of everything else that's wrong with this location. 1. We were scheduled for an in-person comprehensive exam with Dr. Hudson at 3:30 PM. We arrived and were told that we were 35 minutes late and that he couldn't see us anymore. I confirmed with them that it said 3:30 in my Banfield portal, and I got several calls confirming it was 3:30 (see voicemail transcript and screenshot). We were told it was different on their system (3:00, with no explanation on how it could have gone wrong), then the girl went to the back to see if Dr. Hudson could still see us, but she came back and said he couldn't. We took time off of work, so this was a major bummer. Additionally, the front team didn't seem to care how bummed out we were. It worked out because I was really worried about our pup seeing Dr. Hudson -- he was careless with our other dog. Dr. K was usually our go-to person, but she left (sad cause she was so great!) and would give Dr. Hudson another try since we're paying monthly -- alas, we didn't get to see him. But I'll take that as a sign from the universe! 2. It takes forever to book with them. They don't pick up their phones, and the Banfield website is never up-to-date, which is why the former story sucks even more cause we waited for a while. 3. One time, I brought my other dog to get his teeth cleaned (he went under), and when I got him back, his teeth looked pretty much the same. I also paid to get his nails trimmed while he was out, and he returned exactly the same. 4. When we used to do their drop-off during the pandemic, I would pick up our pup, and he would be SO thirsty (and I saw this in other reviews as well), which leads me to believe they don't give them water for hours. After going to a local vet, I learned that compressive exams do not take 1/2 a day. This concerned me, so I ultimately stopped bringing him in. We won't renew our subscription and will continue to go elsewhere while still paying for our membership. That is how much we are over Banfield.

    My puppy after coming back from the emergency surgery to remove the abscess brought on by dirty utensils used for his neutering.
    Aaron G.

    Never again. We signed our puppy up for a coverage plan with them and have come to royally regret that decision. After his neutering procedure performed by Dr. Gilman complications arose. His groin area was swollen to over 5 times its normal size so we dropped him off to be checked. Later that day we received a phone call from the vet saying he has no idea what it could possibly be and has never seen anything like this before. Next day we took him to get a second opinion and after a very brief inspection and swab it was determined he had a very bad bacterial infection and surgery was immediately needed My puppy is 7 months old,why wasn't he given antibiotics after the initial surgery? How in the world could a vet never have seen a bacterial infection or not know what it was in the very least? Now I'm left to pay an expensive emergency surgery because antibiotics weren't thought to be prescribed and overall lack of knowledge. Oh but charge us $40 to inject anti-inflammatory and tell us to check back in a few weeks... good f-ing idea. Update: After leaving this initial review we called the phone number provided in the response. They told us things would be looked at and that they would follow up with more information. Well we haven't heard back from them for some time now however thankfully we are in contact with a lawyer and we are taking legal action against banfield for the maltreatment and overall horrific experience our puppy as well as us endured.

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    Love Dr. Hudson and staff. Always, friendly and knowledgeable. My fur daughter loves all of them. They all know her by name Cami.

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    All staff courteous and efficient. Dr. Hudson extremely knowledgeable and compassionate. Great service. Not trying to sell products.

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