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    Formea Animal Hospital

    2.7 (14 reviews)
    Closed 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Pet physical or wellness exam

    Pet vaccinations

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    Took our kitty Hank here a few months ago and Dr. Formea was awesome! Great experience 10/10

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    Doc Buller is the best! The staff is always friendly and helpful. They offer options to help make…read moremeds, etc. more affordable. They treated my dog with care and kindness. I have gone here for years and never had a bad experience. Definitely recommend!

    I have never been so disgusted with a service before in my entire life…read more My husband and I visited the facility on January 6th and had an appointment for 4:40. We showed up at our appointment and it was the worst experience of my entire life. The staff in general was okay. I do not blame the receptionist and I thought the first tech was polite. After that, everything went downhill. We contacted Bethalto Animal Clinic simply to get our yearly exam and get my Dog's vaccines up to date, was we recently moved from Jacksonville, Florida to the Bethalto area. First off, the services were anything but affordable. It was over $200 for a simple exam and 2 vaccines, one of which was an oral vaccine. When I had originally scheduled the appointment, I ensured to ask if I would be allowed to be with my dog during the exam and throughout the process, as he doesn't know people at Bethalto Animal Clinic yet and neither do I. I was told yes and that the only things I would not be present for, was blood draws and if he ever needed x-rays. When we went to the back room with our dog, the tech was kind and was asking us of our concerns. Not once did she try to get to know Wilbur (our dog) and not once did she try to get him comfortable. We brought his treats with us to help him adjust a little easier and they were not used. Once she was done talking to us, she informed us that she would need to do a blood draw for one of the annual tests and we said okay. She took him back. When I tell you my dog screamed, I mean he absolutely screamed. Not once have we EVER heard him scream like that. We have been to multiple vets, and never has he been nervous or scared like he was there. They come back 20 minutes later only to tell us that everything was done. The Vet brought him in (who I have never met) and did not tell us how the exam was, discuss any issues we had, address a single concern, absolutely nothing. We paid over $200 to listen to my dog scream and I cannot tell you how disgusted I am, not only with myself for bringing him there, but for this clinic to treat my dog the way they did. We weren't even introduced to the Vet or anything. I felt talked down to when trying to discuss a potential food allergy (diagnosed by my precious 5 star vet) and it was the saddest experience of my life. I cannot describe to you the feelings I have. I will not bring a single living being to this facility ever again, and I will continue to inform everyone in my circle about the horrific treatment of my dog. This facility should be disgusted with themselves. My dog is a member of my family. For you to treat him like a number is unacceptable.

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    I've read a lot of these reviews and some were poor. I do not understand that because I had the…read morebest 1st experience. The front desk staff, the techs, and Dr. Trickel were all amazing and compassionate and treated my bunnies with the utmost care. One of my quad needed a molar trim. If I absolutely had to say one negative thing is that the wait time was a little long But that said it is a hospital and they take emergency patients so I can say if I have an emergency I would want them to take my baby right away. If you don't want to take a chance that you may have a wait time due to an emergency that may come in then you may want to seek more of a clinic type vets office. Thank you Hawthorne and Dr. Trickel

    I am deeply saddened and frustrated by the lack of care, competence, and basic empathy shown by…read morethis clinic during one of the most difficult times a pet owner can face. ​My dog is terminally ill with cancer, and managing his comfort and pain is a time-sensitive, daily priority. Despite the urgency of the situation, this clinic repeatedly delayed filling critical, life-sustaining prescriptions, leaving us waiting for days just to get a response to our refill requests. When you are watching a sick animal suffer, every hour counts, yet our pleas for updates went ignored. ​ When I requested immediate answers and attempted to hold them accountable for these dangerous administrative failures, the staff chose to deflect blame rather than fix their mistake. They accused me of being "verbally abusive" simply because I was being firm, urgent, and demanding transparency regarding my dying dog's medication. ​Advocating fiercely for a terminally ill pet who cannot speak for themselves is not abuse--it is a response to severe negligence. Medical delays and massive counting errors (when they finally filled one of the medications, they shorted us an entire 25 days' worth of pills) are entirely unacceptable when dealing with end-of-life care. I cannot trust a clinic that handles critical prescriptions so carelessly and treats grieving, desperate pet owners with such defensiveness.

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    Disorganized, dishonest about pricing, & nearly cost me my international flight!…read more I used Rosewood Pet Hospital and Dr. Rachel McPheters, DVM to handle my dog's paperwork for an international move to Thailand. I paid upfront $320 as an all-inclusive fee covering vaccinations, the USDA health certificate, and all associated paperwork. I confirmed this multiple times. What followed was months of disorganization that nearly derailed my entire trip. It took four attempts over three weeks to produce a usable vaccination letter. I provided the clinic with the full requirements from the Thai Department of Livestock Development upfront. Despite that, the first document was a patient chart printout with no letterhead, no signature, no microchip number -- and the second was sent as a smudged photo, not a proper scanned document [see attached]. Each subsequent version still had missing information. They had to revise the letter twice on the same day because they kept making mistakes. These delays compressed my Thai government approval window to just a few weeks before departure. The health exam was poorly coordinated. We scheduled the USDA exam about eight days before my flight -- tight, since the certificate is only valid for 10 days. On exam day, the staff member handling my case wasn't there. I waited 45 minutes for her to arrive. The USDA application still wasn't submitted until 3:00 PM the next day. Then came the surprise charges. After paying $320 for what was represented as all-inclusive, I was told at the final stage I owed an additional $130 for USDA processing and expedited shipping. They claimed there was "no way to know" these fees until submission -- these are standard, published fees. After 30 minutes of pushback, they waived half the processing fee but held firm on shipping. Then they selected UPS 2nd-day air instead of Next-day air, eliminating any reliable on-time delivery. I even tried promoting the shipping to Next-day air, but Rosewood was unreachable, and only they could promote the shipping label since they ordered it. The result was a near-disaster. Because my dog's transport required no more than two flight legs, I had to rent a car and drive from central Illinois to Chicago to catch my flight. The USDA certificate arrived just minutes before I had to leave -- I had to coordinate directly with UPS to intercept the delivery because the timeline was that razor-thin. I had to drive to UPS package hubs directly for "package interception" which is not a service they offer! The stress made me physically ill the morning of departure with a sore throat and cough that followed me through the entire trip to Thailand. None of this should have been my problem to solve. For context, the Thai Department of Livestock Development -- a foreign government agency -- was easier and more responsive to work with than this clinic. I would not trust Rosewood Pet Hospital with any time-sensitive or international paperwork. The experience was disorganized from start to finish, the pricing was misrepresented, and there was zero accountability of wrongdoing from these "professionals."

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