Would recommend against this clinic
We very recently had our two cats in for a routine physical exam, and were told (by Dr. Mollard) that one of them needed a molar extracted. We set up the appointment and brought him in, after getting a second opinion from another clinic.
We received a phone call the afternoon of the procedure and were told to pick the cat up in an hour, which we did. The receptionist told us that he would be behaving oddly, head bobbing, etc, because of the anaesthetic.
This was all correct; he looked groggy and his head bobbed around. What struck us as a little odd on the way home was that he was wheezing and breathing with difficulty. We didn't make much of it, unfortunately, because we'd been warned about his odd physical behaviour.
My husband yelled for me a few minutes after we returned home. He'd taken the cat out of his carrier, and the poor cat almost immediately started heaving and convulsing, after which he managed to cough up a huge piece of gauze, which was apparently stuck in his throat. All the way home he'd been slowly choking on it, and we had no idea. It was very fortunate that a) we picked him up when we did and b) he managed to cough it up, because on no level did we suspect that there was something crammed down the throat of our cat, who hadn't eaten in 24 hours.
Someone had failed to remove the gauze from his mouth before he came round and we very nearly ended up with a dead cat. Needless to say, we will not be returning to the clinic.
We very recently had our two cats in for a routine physical exam, and were told (by Dr. Mollard) that one of them needed a molar extracted. We set up the appointment and brought him in, after getting a second opinion from another clinic.
We received a phone call the afternoon of the procedure and were told to pick the cat up in an hour, which we did. The receptionist told us that he would be behaving oddly, head bobbing, etc, because of the anaesthetic.
This was all correct; he looked groggy and his head bobbed around. What struck us as a little odd on the way home was that he was wheezing and breathing with difficulty. We didn't make much of it, unfortunately, because we'd been warned about his odd physical behaviour.
My husband yelled for me a few minutes after we returned home. He'd taken the cat out of his carrier, and the poor cat almost immediately started heaving and convulsing, after which he managed to cough up a huge piece of gauze, which was...