**WARNING!! This place is a total SCAM. If there was a rating of ZERO, I would have given it. My six year old, Bichon, Austen was violently ill last year. He had been throwing up for a day and a half. I made an urgent appointment with a regular vet who gave him an IV and gave me meds to take home. This did not quell the vomiting. When Austen began throwing up blood, I took him straight away to AMPM. They ran blood tests and x-rays. When they came back with the x-ray and showed me that there was nothing to be seen on it, "But he could have eaten cloth which would obstruct his bowels and would not show up on this x-ray, so we need to go in and do exploratory surgery." I panicked but agreed. I was in a sticky situation; should I question the animal doctors that knew what they are talking about (or should have because they went to school and trained for it) and take him home only to get worse and possibly die, or did I listen to the doctors that knew (or should have known) what they were talking about and do everything I ... If there was a rating of ZERO, I would have given it. My six year old, Bichon, Austen was violently ill last year. He had been throwing up for a day and a half. I made an urgent appointment with a regular vet who gave him an IV and gave me meds to take home. This did not quell the vomiting. When Austen began throwing up blood, I took him straight away to AMPM. They ran blood tests and x-rays. When they came back with the x-ray and showed me that there was nothing to be seen on it, "But he could have eaten cloth which would obstruct his bowels and would not show up on this x-ray, so we need to go in and do exploratory surgery." I panicked but agreed. I was in a sticky situation; should I question the animal doctors that knew what they are talking about (or should have because they went to school and trained for it) and take him home only to get worse and possibly die, or did I listen to the doctors that knew (or should have known) what they were talking about and do everything I could to save my pup? I went with the latter and signed up for their in-house "credit" as I was told I needed to do to ensure that the vet bill would be paid BEFORE they proceeded and they took him back. AFTER I was approved. Good thing I had a co-signor to make sure I wasn't rejected. What would have happened then? We would have been sent home and if Austen was on his death bed, he would not have gotten the help he needed. Three days and surgery later, they STILL came up with no answers, so they asked if they could run a two-hundred dollar blood test that was a human to dog virus that is hardly EVER found in any dog or human...Of course, since you're laying on the guilt and making me feel like if we don't do this test he might die, absolutely, if it's going to save him, tack on another couple of hundred dollars to the bill and another day in the hospital. Why not? Needless to say, that test was negative and just before my credit ran out, they finally released him. I found out at another vets later on, that they most certainly would have been able to see fabric on an x-ray due to the striations and formations that fabric makes in an x-ray. AMPM just wanted to soak me for 2 THOUSAND dollars. Yes, that's right, 2 Grand for NOTHING! My bill was 19 hundred something and all I ended up with was a puppy with internal scar tissue and this huge bill. I'm not even getting into the HORRIBLY rude and snotty customer service I received OR the fact that they killed someone's cat while I was there, yep, put it down because that person didn't have the money to do the surgery they said it "needed to save it's life." It was cheaper to euthanize it than to help the animal and its owner out. WORST vet experience EVER and I have three dogs and have grown up with dogs all my life.
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