OK, I am finally going to do my civic duty and post a review on Little Apple (LA) because I have so many people ask me where I take my dogs. The reason I get asked so often, I find, is that people mostly take their dogs to LA and are looking to take them elsewhere. I initially took my dogs to LA back in 2009 and was satisfied with their services. I then left KS and returned in 2011 and ended up going back when one of my dogs snagged his dew claw on a fence. Upon LA taking my dog into the back to "treat" him, I was met with the horrific sounds of my dog howling in pain....which may not have been too alarming if it weren't for the fact that my dog is extremely stoic and has a VERY high pain tolerance level as was demonstrated for over a month as he healed from radiation, which for those who are not aware has after effects much like 3rd degree burns. So my dog never so much as grumbled when healing from radiation, but now he was howling in pain! So when they finished "treating" him they bring him back to me in worse shape than when I brought him in.....whoever was trying to clean up his dew claw, clipped his nail to the quick and he was bleeding. They send us away with a tiny bottle of antheseptic wash (my dog is 115 lbs), so I am not sure how I was supposed to stretch this stuff out, and instructions to contact them IF it becomes infected. Well needless to say it did in fact become infected and instead of taking him to them, I went to KSU Vet Med School as recommended by a friend and it was THE best decision I have ever made. In the end, the infection in his dew claw did subside after 3 weeks of antibiotics, but there was damage that caused a swelling that would not go down, so he ended up having it surgically removed......which as you can imagine cost a lot and I cannot help but wonder if I could have avoided all of this by not going to LA in the first place.
Additionally, I had a friend that was actually a K-State student and she had a dog that had a very strange eye infection that she was having treated by LA, but 2 weeks later nothing had changed, except it was getting worse. So in conversation I recommended KSU to her and that week she took her dog there and when I asked a week later, she said that they were VERY thorough and that within 2 days of taking him there his eye infection was already exponentially better. read more