Staring Plaza Veterinary Center

So expensive!!! He runs all these tests on your pet and they are so expensive. Then the follow up appointment is expensive too. We went for a skin rash, and paid almost $ 400 and then it wasn’t cured. A month later I had to go back and pay more money. Definitely overpriced. They’ll try to sell you a lot of stuff you don’t even need.

OVERPRICED
The doctor and staff were very nice and informative. However, I believe this visit was unnecessary and extremely overpriced.
This was a requested 6 month «check up» for my cat Smokey who had not previous issues/​problems in the past. The check up, blood work, and fecal matter test was over $ 150, nail clip $ 12.
I needed Advantage for her but they did not carry it. Instead, they use Revolution. The vet applied the Revolution to her neck/​shoulder bone area. This medicine matted and bleached her fur. I am not happy with the product nor cost. I spent $ 350 for basically nothing. I want a refund on the Revolution

The vet forgot to mention that the vaccinations he was giving my four month old puppy could possibly cause an allergic reaction (that would cause us to rush him to the hospital), which was weird because he made sure he didn’t forget to charge us $ 13 for a nail trim (that you can get for no more than $ 9 anywhere else). However, it is not the ridiculously high prices that caused me to switch vets and write this review, it’s the carelessness.
My boyfriend and I were both at the appointment and neither of us remember the vet telling us that there was a chance our puppy could have a reaction to the vaccinations. When our puppy’s face started swelling up, we immediately called Staring Vet Center’s «emergency number» and were given an answering machine, so we hung up and drove to the nearest animal hospital. The hospital we went to was about to close and its vet had already gone home for the day; however, when we called her (the vet), she showed up within five minutes in her pajamas to take care of our puppy (care we would’ve expected from Staring Center). She took care of our puppy, calmed us down, and sent us home with care instructions AND an emergency number that, in the case she was unavailable, would automatically forward to a 24-​hour animal hospital instead of an answering machine.
When we went to Staring Vet Center today to see if they could help explain what went wrong, our vet spoke to us in a condescending manner (I’m assuming because he was embarrassed) and put the blame onto the company that the vaccinations came from. I don’t think the reaction was the company’s fault and I’m well aware there was no way of knowing our puppy would have a reaction prior to the vaccination, I’m upset that the vet failed to let us know of the possibility of a reaction, that the vet failed to let us who to call/​where to go in case of an emergency (a number on an answering machine is insufficient; when I’m in a panic because my dog’s eyes are swollen shut, I’m not around a pen/​paper to write a number down and play telephone with the entire city of Baton Rouge), and that the vet failed to show any remorse or that he didn’t seem to care at all about the health of our dog as much as he cared that our credit card went through.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone to take his/​her animal here and if I could put less than one star on the review, I would.