Hight Veterinary Hospital PA University Area

I took my animals here for years and had pretty neutral feelings about them: they did check-​ups, administered vaccines and we were on our way. If you are looking for a review that states the staff was nice to your pet, you didn’t wait long to be seen, the prices were fair, you can stop reading because those things are true. A lot of people do not question what a vet or even a doctor tells them and I am glad I did after my experience here with one of my cats.
One day after a late appointment, I got home with my cat after getting his vaccines, and he started showing signs of an allergic reaction. I called the vet just before closing time, they told me to bring him back right away and they waited for me and treated him after-​hours. He needed steroids and IV fluids, and it was a pretty scary experience. I was glad that they stayed and didn’t send me to an emergency vet that was further away. After this incident, I was scared to get my cat vaccinated again. I considered only letting him get his rabies vaccine, since he is strictly an indoor cat. The problem came when they wanted to keep him in the clinic for observation after each vaccine, and to do this all his vaccines had to be up to date. I did not feel comfortable with this and elected not to get him vaccinated, especially since he has also developed other problems that we could not get under control, and I did not feel he was healthy enough to risk another anaphylactic reaction. They made me feel like they were doing me a favor for even allowing me to bring him there to get treated at all after not wanting to vaccinate him (my other cat was still getting his vaccines and I’m not one of those people who have anything against vaccines).
The other problems we had was persistent vomiting, for years. First they told me that cats vomit. After some insistence they suggested exploratory surgery. I was curious how we went from normal vomiting to needing surgery, and wanted to try other diagnostics first. They told me that we could go that route, but eventually we will end up doing surgery and they were trying to save me money. So I asked if we could check bloodwork first, which was normal. So we decided it was food allergies and started on prescription food. This didn’t work.
I eventually took him to a holistic vet who switched him to wet food and we have not had any vomiting since (it’s been a year). I just feel that if I was any other pet-​owner (I am a nurse and based my judgments and decisions regarding my cat on my knowledge of sick people) they would have talked me into putting my cat through surgery and we still wouldn’t have had an answer. Also, the holistic vet said that the 3 year vaccines are very harsh on animals, especially when they get several at once (which he did at Hight). He has been getting 1 year vaccines at the new vet and we have not had a single reaction. The new vet also agreed that we should wait to vaccinate until he was healthy and worked with me to get him healthy. So, although the new vet is more expensive, I feel like I saved money by avoiding unnecessary surgery, not to mention avoiding putting my sickly cat through surgery.

So i leave my dog there for boarding and when I get back to pick him up he was terrorfied. He coat was matted, you can tell he didnt eat good. he smelled like pee. I took him straight to get wash i didnt make any stop I will NEVER leave him there again.