What happened to Stempy? Stempy had a problem with bladder stones. This is a condition that needs to be monitored and managed. There is much more to managing this condition than just a diet change. September a few years ago, Stempy had a urethral obstruction that unblocked itself just prior to going to see this vet. Despite his prior history, she failed to take radiographs and failed to diagnose bladder stones, even though she was told he was obstructed and had been for a day until just prior to coming in. She said he just had elevated sperm in his urine and sent him home. This event right here is a FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE and is BELOW the standard of care ESPECIALLY with his PRIOR HISTORY of stones WITH THIS VET! WHY, please tell us, WHY wouldn't you take an x-ray when you have just been told that he had been blocked for a full day AND that WE suspected stones again? Stempy had already had TWO prior episodes WITH HER. This is a MAJOR FAILURE on her part. She must have had an aversion to using her x-ray machine - was it outdated? Looking back on his care, we believe she purposely avoided using her x-ray machine multiple times - when any other vet would have AT LEAST recommended an x-ray! VIOLATION? We believe so. How could the Texas Vet Board just dismiss this case?. ONLY TWO WEEKS LATER, Stempy again experienced a urethral obstruction from most likely the SAME STONE. FROM MOST LIKELY THE SAME STONE THAT FIRST OBSTRUCTED HIM BACK IN MARCH! (Calcium Oxalate stones do NOT dissolve or just disappear - MAJOR FAILURE BY this vet - INEXCUSABLE!) She AGAIN failed to take radiographs to confirm diagnosis, location, and amount. She FAILED to properly wash the stone back to the bladder and tried jamming the catheter in to push the stone back to the bladder. She stated in his records that she was unable to collect a urine specimen. She sent Stempy home wearing a catheter and scheduled a cystotomy for the coming week. How would she PASS a catheter and NOT be able to obtain a urine specimen? In fact, how did she relieve the distended bladder caused by the obstruction and yet NOT be able to obtain a urine specimen? As we now know, she had LODGED the catheter to the stone, so much so that she told us the she was unable to remove the catheter. So this begs the question: How did she relieve the distended bladder? There was no cystocentesis done. Did she damage his urethra with the very forceful - and unsuccessful - catheterization? The FAILURE to x-ray on this day is OUTRAGEOUS. Yet, the Texas Vet Board looks the other way. She ONLY had permission to perform a cystotomy - nothing else. She did NOT perform a cystotomy. She had lodged the catheter to the stone with the forceful catheterization she had performed. She was unable to remove the catheter. She told us that Stempy, himself, removed the catheter, although this is not what she wrote in his records.She performed an unauthorized procedure which she said was a perineal urethrostomy. This is not the procedure she performed, as admitted by the board. SO SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SURGERY SHE PERFORMED? WAS SHE JUST MAKING STUFF UP AS SHE WENT ALONG? Her own vet tech stated she had NEVER performed that type of surgery before. She cut our little boy from his anus to his scrotum - a NINE cm incision - and NO NEW permanent or temporary opening was made - as would be expected with a urethrotomy or a urethrostomy. Remember - we had ONLY authorized a cystotomy. THAT'S IT. NOTHING ELSE. As previously mentioned, three days before this unauthorized surgery, she had failed to wash the stone back to the bladder and had instead lodged the catheter to the stone. She would have known this if she would have taken a radiograph three days earlier when he was brought in. Instead, Stempy was either still obstructed for those three days or she had damaged his urethra and/or bladder when she attempted the forceful catheterization. Instead of referring us to a specialist, she tried to fix her own screwup. If Stempy was in an emergency situation the day of surgery, then SHE is the one who put him there with her FAILURES three days earlier. INEXCUSABLE. Are these not violations? COME ON!! Stempy was in extreme pain post surgery. We took him back to her EVERY DAY post surgery. Stempy was not eating and was only dribbling urine. She never properly examined him. She just kept changing his pain medicine. Then she gave us a tranquilizer with no pain killing abilities (Acepromazine) and led us to believe it was yet another pain killer. This tranquilizer lowers the seizure threshold and is not recommended for brachycephalic breeds. Two days post surgery, this clinic DENIED care to Stempy when his condition was deteriorating. The very next morning, three days post surgery....Stempy passed away. He was found unconscious and lifeless on his pillow. We rushed him to this vet to no avail. She butchered our little boy! read more

Absolutely horrible experience with this vet and clinic resulting in the premature death of our beloved dog. This vet failed to take x-rays and failed to properly diagnose his condition. Then, two weeks later, as a result of this failure, our beloved dog develops a life threatening condition. Again, our dog was not treated properly. This vet then performs an UNAUTHORIZED surgery that left our poor little boy in IMMENSE pain. What does this vet then do? She takes our little boy OFF of painkillers and puts him on tranquilizers with NO PAIN KILLING ABILITY, but yet tells us it is yet another painkiller. The night before our beloved little boy passed away, this terrible clinic DENIED our boy care when his condition was deteriorating! They told us he would be IN PAIN 2 or 3 more days and then he would be fine - yet they had taken him completely OFF of painkillers!!! How inhumane is THAT? The very next morning our beloved little boy passed away - exactly 3 days after the UNAUTHORIZED surgery. We placed blind trust in this vet and clinic and it cost our beloved little boy his life. This BAD vet and clinic is NOT recommended. Visit vets from hell dot net and/or stempy dot net for the full story. read more

Absolutely horrible experience with this vet and clinic resulting in the premature death of our beloved dog. This vet failed to take x-rays and failed to properly diagnose his condition. Then, two weeks later, as a result of this failure, our beloved dog develops a life threatening condition. Again, our dog was not treated properly. This vet then performs an UNAUTHORIZED surgery that left our poor little boy in IMMENSE pain. What does this vet then do? She takes our little boy OFF of painkillers and puts him on tranquilizers with NO PAIN KILLING ABILITY, but yet tells us it is yet another painkiller. The night before our beloved little boy passed away, this terrible clinic DENIED our boy care when his condition was deteriorating! They told us he would be IN PAIN 2 or 3 more days and then he would be fine - yet they had taken him completely OFF of painkillers!!! How inhumane is THAT? The very next morning our beloved little boy passed away - exactly 3 days after the UNAUTHORIZED surgery. We placed blind trust in this vet and clinic and it cost our beloved little boy his life. This BAD vet and clinic is NOT recommended. read more

ATTN YELP USERS - This review site is of VERY questionable integrity. They have repeatedly removed my VERY valid negative review that meets their terms of service. What's the point of having a review site if Yelp is going to discriminate against VERIFIABLE, FACTUAL, 100% TRUTHFUL negative reviews such as mine? Once again.... The WORST vet in Mesquite!! This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. http://stempy.net/ read more

ATTN YELPERS - THIS IS A LEGITIMATE REVIEW. A vote to remove this review is a vote AGAINST the very reason sites like this were created. Removing this review hurts your credibility. Thank you. THE WORST VET IN MESQUITE This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. http://stempy.net/ read more

We used to be naive and we blindly trusted our veterinarian - this veterinarian. Never would we have guessed that the most dangerous place for our dog was this clinic. We have learned the hard way to never blindly trust your veterinarian - any veterinarian - and especially not this veterinarian. Because this veterinarian did not provide a reasonable standard of care, she put the life of our dog in peril. When she negligently acted once our dog's life was in grave danger, she chose to proceed with an unauthorized surgery that she had never performed before. This led to the untimely death of our dog. If this was not bad enough, this vet then chose to alter our dog's records and she chose to lie to the state board when presented with our complaint. So that leaves this vet with some distinct traits: Incompetent. Lazy. Negligent. Dishonest. Unethical. We would never recommend this vet or her clinic to anyone with a pet. Ever. read more

We used to be naive and we blindly trusted our veterinarian - this veterinarian. Never would we have guessed that the most dangerous place for our dog was this clinic. We have learned the hard way to never blindly trust your veterinarian - any veterinarian - and especially not this veterinarian. Because this veterinarian did not provide a reasonable standard of care, she put the life of our dog in peril. When she negligently acted once our dog's life was in grave danger, she chose to proceed with an unauthorized surgery that she had never performed before. This led to the untimely death of our dog. If this was not bad enough, this vet then chose to alter our dog's records and she chose to lie to the state board when presented with our complaint. So that leaves this vet with some distinct traits: Incompetent. Lazy. Negligent. Dishonest. Unethical. We would never recommend this vet or her clinic to anyone with a pet. Ever. read more

This is a terrible vet. Our Shih Tzu died as a result of this bad vet. This vet performed an unauthorized procedure and altered the records and lied to us and the board when presented with a complaint. We would not recommend this vet to anyone with a pet. Ever. Also, please note the filtered reviews below. Yelp continually chooses to hide our negative review of this veterinarian - so we are forced to repost. Why? Because this vet pays Yelp a monthly "advertising" fee that allows the bad reviews to be hidden. Unethical review sites and unethical veterinarians go hand in hand. The vets that choose to forgo the extortion end up with bad reviews in public view, and many of those reviews are not nearly as well documented as our complaint. Yelp is useless as a helpful review site. Their demise cannot occur soon enough. read more

THE WORST VET IN MESQUITE This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. http://stempy.net/ http://vetsfromhell.net/ read more

Our dog suffered from bladder stones. He DIED as a result of the incompetent care he received at Rodeo Drive from Dr. Thomas. She took many shortcuts in his treatment that is BELOW the minimum standard of care. She wrote in his records that she performed a perineal urethrostomy which was NOT AUTHORIZED and was a surgery she had never previously performed. She was ONLY authorized to perform a cystotomy. Also, a urethrostomy should have resulted in a new opening for urination. There was NO NEW opening made. Incompetence, negligence, and dishonesty were the hallmarks of our experience with Dr. Thomas. She also altered his medical records when presented with a complaint from the state board. We could never, in good conscience, recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID! read more

Our dog suffered from bladder stones. He DIED as a result of the incompetent care he received at Rodeo Drive from Dr. Thomas. She took many shortcuts in his treatment that is BELOW the minimum standard of care. She wrote in his records that she performed a perineal urethrostomy which was NOT AUTHORIZED and was a surgery she had never previously performed. She was ONLY authorized to perform a cystotomy. Also, a urethrostomy should have resulted in a new opening for urination. There was NO NEW opening made. Incompetence, negligence, and dishonesty were the hallmarks of our experience with Dr. Thomas. She also altered his medical records when presented with a complaint from the state board. We could never, in good conscious, recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID! read more

So Rodeo Drive Veterinary Hospital must pay Yelp a monthly fee to continually hide my legitimate and factual negative review. Yelps formula for choosing which reviews to hide? There's no formula. It's arbitrary and if the business pays, negative reviews are hidden. What does that mean? Yelp is untrustworthy as a review site. Now, on to this terrible vet clinic... This is the absolute worst vet in Mesquite. To the other reviewer.- This is Dr. Cheapvet. Did it ever dawn on you that she's cheap for a reason? Our beloved Shih Tzu DIED at the hands of this BAD vet. Countless errors, unauthorized procedures, failure to follow standard protocol, unethical, dishonest....+ more. Just visit stempy.net or vetsfromhell.net for the full story. This vet is NOT RECOMMENDED! read more

THE WORST VET IN MESQUITE This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. read more

THE WORST VET IN MESQUITE This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. read more

THE WORST VET IN MESQUITE This vet performed unauthorized surgery that led to the death of our 8 year old beloved Shih Tzu boy. This vet never recommended regular radiographs or urinalysis, even though he was a bladder stone patient at risk of forming more stones. The goal of regular radiographs and urinalysis is to catch stones forming when they are small enough to be removed non-surgically, yet this vet NEVER recommended either. This vet altered the medical records AFTER THE FACT to try to cover herself when presented with a complaint from the State Board. She may have fooled them, but she no longer fools us. We KNOW she is one hundred percent responsible for Stempy's preventable death. We would NEVER recommend this vet to ANYONE with a pet. AVOID. read more

This is the absolute worst vet in Mesquite. Our beloved Shih Tzu died as a result of this vet's actions. This vet performed an UNAUTHORIZED surgery that resulted in our boy being in extreme pain. Stempy passed away 3 days after surgery. The clinic even DENIED him care the evening before his death. They told us, "NO! Do NOT bring him in! He will be in pain a few more days and then he will be fine!" Yet, this clinic had taken him OFF of pain killers and put him on tranquilizers and did not tell us of the switch! We thought he was still on pain relievers! He passed away the next morning. Search Stempy on the internet to read full details of our nightmare experience. We would NEVER recommend this vet to anyone with a pet. AVOID. read more

This is the absolute worst vet in Mesquite. Our beloved Shih Tzu died as a result of this vet's actions. This vet performed an UNAUTHORIZED surgery that resulted in our boy being in extreme pain. Stempy passed away 3 days after surgery. The clinic even DENIED him care the evening before his death. They told us, "NO! Do NOT bring him in! He will be in pain a few more days and then he will be fine!" Yet, this clinic had taken him OFF of pain killers and put him on tranquilizers and did not tell us of the switch! We thought he was still on pain relievers! He passed away the next morning. Search Stempy on the internet to read full details of our nightmare experience. We would NEVER recommend this vet to anyone with a pet. AVOID. read more

This is the absolute worst vet in Mesquite. Our beloved Shih Tzu died as a result of this vet's actions. This vet performed an UNAUTHORIZED surgery that resulted in our boy being in extreme pain. Stempy passed away 3 days after surgery. The clinic even DENIED him care the evening before his death. They told us, "NO! Do NOT bring him in! He will be in pain a few more days and then he will be fine!" Yet, this clinic had taken him OFF of pain killers and put him on tranquilizers and did not tell us of the switch! We thought he was still on pain relievers! He passed away the next morning. Search Stempy on the internet to read full details of our nightmare experience. We would NEVER recommend this vet to anyone with a pet. AVOID. read more

Love your pet? AVOID this vet! This vet is not only lazy and incompetent, she is also unethical and NOT to be trusted. She performed an unauthorized surgery on our Shih Tzu, which ultimately resulted in his death. His death was preventable had he received competent veterinary care. NO patient should EVER be worse for having seen the doctor. Our boy was indeed worse! What happened to 'do no harm?' We wouldn't recommend this vet to anyone with a pet - EVER. Visit stempy.net to read the full story of what this bad vet did to our little boy. read more