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    Deland, FL

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    Emmett Smith, DVM

    4.6 (10 reviews)

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    Pet vaccinations

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    3 years ago

    The kindest most caring and experienced Veterinarian I have ever been to! I just can't say enough! The staff is wonderful also!

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    7 years ago

    Best vet in Deland. A true OG. Saved my dog after eating coontie fern. Thx!

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    7 years ago

    Dr Smith has been taking care of my two dogs for many years. He is absolutely the best and so is his staff.

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    6 years ago

    Dr Smith and his staff are amazing!!!! Don't hesitate to call and make an appointment.

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    10 years ago

    Best animal clinic around. Dr. Smith is awesome. He really cares about his patients and their "parents".

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    Dr Smith has helped me welcome kittens and helped me say goodbye to some of the best cats ever.

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    I couldn't be more pleased and satisfied with the care my many beloved pets have received at…read moreVolusia Veterinary Services. Each baby has returned home from their appointment, very relaxed and mentally unscathed. It was truly a pleasant experience, with Dr. Matt the staff and the office atmosphere. I am also quite pleased with the charges which are very reasonable and less than I have paid elsewhere. I used to be embarrassed to take my chihuahua Freddy to a vet because he growled and screamed at the slightest touch by a vet. Freddy absolutely fell in love with Dr. Matt. Dr. Matt's approach was so calming. I am so grateful that I have found a great vet after moving to Deland. It is a load off my mind to have a reliable and comforting place to take my pets for medical attention. Thank you so much Dr. Matt and staff.

    They were fast and thorough. However, not very loving. When I told the vet tech that I was…read moreworried about my dogs lumps, she said, "well, that's what happens when labs eat what they shouldn't". It felt insulting considering I am very particular about my (11yr old lab/Aussie) baby girl's diet. I was happy that they took my concern seriously and the vet was able to take a biopsy of the 2 concerning tumors. However, getting the shots and biopsies and medicine was unnecessarily traumatic for my little girl. I told them several times that she is well trained and will do what I ask, but they refused to let me help as they wrestled and forced my dog to be held by them refusing to let me hold her. My dog does NOT like to be pinned down and was squirming and panicking when a simple command and being held by her mom would have been far more effective. The vet just kept saying, "now you're being ridiculous" when I could see my dog was freaking out by the strange people jerking her leash and treating her like some wild beast. She is a well trained, obedient senior dog. There is no need to be so aggressive with her. And to not even allow me to hold her... I just had to sit and watch my dog be wrestled by strange people. I am grateful that they tested her and gave her the shots. But in 11 years, she has never been handled with such aggressiveness.

    Countryside at the Park - This is my precious baby he tortured to death. Her name was Bella and he tortured her to death.

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    I took my precious Bella there to go to Rainbow Bridge. They have this tech that has no clue what…read morehe is doing. He introduced himself as a nurse. He came in with this yellow stuff in a syringe and injected her in the spine. My poor Bella was terrified and suffered the last 10 minutes of her life. She was thrashing her head back and forth and trying to get us to help her. He came in several times while she was suffering and said this is how it goes for some dogs. I kept asking for the vet because this is not how it goes. My poor baby suffered so bad for the last 10 minutes of her life. When he came back in with the vet my poor suffering baby tried to get under my husband's legs but all she could do was move her head but he came over and pinned her head to the floor while the vet came in and killed her. My poor baby suffered so badly the last 10 minutes of her life because this guy who calls himself a nurse tortured her. He tortured her. He had his hands around her throat as he was pinning her head down. She was tortured to death instead of peacefully leaving this earth. If you want your pet last minutes of life to be tortured go there. The guy who thinks he is a nurse at a vet specializes in torturing your pet.

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    Terrie Sizemore, DVM - 1st attempt of 8x to euthanize my boy.

    Terrie Sizemore, DVM

    (12 reviews)

    Been using Dr. Sizemore for 5 or more years. Very kind, compassionate and caring. She does her…read morebest to make a bad situation more tolerable. Nothing but things to say about her.

    Dear Dr. Sizemore, I received your sympathy card today. I understand that you likely intended it as…read morea kind gesture, but receiving it brought me back to August 18th and left me crying as hard as I did the day Chaka died.You wrote that you were sorry "if" you added more distress to an already difficult time. I need you to understand that there is no "if." You did add distress, and what happened that afternoon has left me with memories that will haunt me forever-The day before our appt I contacted you because Chaka seemed to be doing better, and I was struggling with whether it was truly his time. You told me, "Take your time."I took those words seriously.By the following day, Chaka had experienced some additional difficulty breathing, so I kept our 3pm appt. But before you arrived, I had decided that I still did not believe either Chaka or I was ready to say goodbye that day.Then you arrived 30 min early.I told you how I felt. I even offered to pay you your entire fee,AND to pay you more money to return when the time came.Your response was that you had other appts and that if you left, you were not coming back.i can't describe what hearing that did to me. Chaka had a large tumor in his chest affecting his heart, lungs and airway. My greatest fear throughout his illness was not death itself. It was that he might suddenly deteriorate and struggle or suffocate and I would be unable to get someone to him quickly enough to end his suffering peacefully.So when you told me that if you left you would not return, I felt trapped.I was forced to choose between proceeding with euthanasia when I was telling you I didn't believe he was ready, or sending away the person I had arranged to help him and risking being unable to find someone if he suddenly went into respiratory distress later that day, that night, or the following day.I also asked you to look at Chaka's X-ray and the diagnosis and records from the University of Florida Veterinary Hospital. I wanted you to understand exactly what was wrong with him, what had been done for him, and why I was struggling so desperately with the timing.You refused.You told me you would not look at another doctor's paperwork because that was not what you were there to do.I needed a veterinarian in that moment. I needed someone who could look at the information, look at my dog, listen to the person who knew him better than anyone, and help me determine whether this truly needed to happen that afternoon.Instead, I felt rushed into making the most irreversible decision of my life.And then the peaceful goodbye I had desperately wanted for Chaka became anything but peaceful.I held my beloved dog while you repeatedly attempted to administer the medication. I watched you try again and again, in three of his legs, before you were finally able to administer it. I had to look into Chaka's eyes throughout that experience. Those eyes are what I see when I close mine.Instead of remembering his final moments as peaceful, loving and compassionate--me holding him safely in his own home and reassuring him as he quietly slipped away--I remember looking into his frightened eyes while he was repeatedly being stuck with a needle.I cannot redo those moments.I cannot give Chaka another goodbye.That alone would have been difficult enough to live with. But what happened after you left has made it infinitely worse. My friend followed you outside, and she told me that you said to her: "Whoever told your friend that dog needed to be put down now lied to her because he seemed fine to me." I need you to understand what those words have done to me. If Chaka "seemed fine" to you, WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT TO ME?I was the person standing in front of you telling you that I didn't think he was ready. I was the person asking you for more time.I was the person offering to pay you in full to leave without performing the euthanasia and then pay you additional money to return another day. If, in your professional opinion, Chaka appeared stable enough that euthanasia did not need to happen at that moment, I desperately needed to hear that BEFORE my dog was dead--not afterward, outside my home, spoken to my friend. Had you said to me, "I've looked at Chaka and I don't believe he needs to be euthanized today," you would have been confirming exactly what my heart was already telling me. Instead, you told me that if you left, you would not come back. TBC in another review.

    Emmett Smith, DVM - vet - Updated September 2026

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