Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK scores (2003) for The Cat Clinic of Seattle:
Giving prevention/self-help advice* = 61
Helping keep pet's medical costs down = 30
Giving helpful advice by phone*= 59
Spending enough time with you: 66
Helping keep medical costs down"" 30
But:
Price index score = $188 (where $100 is the median)
2nd worst overall care/advice to price index score ratio among the 100 Puget Sound animal clinics surveyed.
The Cat Clinic is nice to you, but scratch the surface, and it's all...surface.
Dr. Nemec, the unscrupulous co-owner (with her husband) of this clinic, allows her subordinates to belittle and engage in disparaging, insulting behavior, including telling blatant lies when convenient. Look past the surface ""niceness""! Imagine Leona Helmsley trying to pass herself off as Mother Teresa. An overweening, totally unwarranted sense of superiority, which she enjoys rubbing in the face of others. Manipulative, ""hard-as-nails""--on the inside--, and unscrupulous.
She frequently asks you to do expensive procedures without medical justification. And she encourages an unhealthy, expensive dependence on their clinic. What little they tell you could find out easily YOURSELF.
A 4-month relationship with the Cat Clinic of Seattle, where we spent an estimated $2,000 for a lot of ""grief"" (especially in the weeks that followed the hospitalization). The office manager Chris verbally and emotionally abused me because of my Asian ancestry. She treated me as if I were her indentured Filipino yard man.
Then she lied and said she never yelled at me. I was upset for weeks after the incident.
They charged us SIX days of expensive hospitalization when our cat stayed over only five days.
Some of these people (Dr. Nemec, who calls the shots, in particular) are deeply ETHICALLY CHALLENGED. However, I do not question their innate capacity as human beings to be truthful and compassionate, if only they cared!
Pros: Clean
Cons: Mendacious, hypocritical, venal, unprofessional conduct. Very bad value for your money.
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