Los Alamitos Animal Hospital

I really want to like this place but it is hard. You could stand at the counter for 20 minutes and not be acknowledged. It is strange. How hard is it to acknowledge someone as they are walking through the door? They just seem so unorganized for a place that has been around as long as they have. I think it is time to shop around. No love lost, that is for sure.

Our puppy was spayed here and had her dew claws removed. We had no complaints at the time, but now eight months later, it’s a different story. Our dog was having discharge, which did not respond to antibiotics. Ultimately it was determined that she had part of her left ovary left behind, which was causing hormonal problems. She had a major second surgery to search for the remnant, and it was discovered that her entire uterus was in place (standard practice to spay includes removing uterus and leaving cervix). This is a risk for cancer. In our case, the hormone imbalance was destroying the uterus. In short, this clinic performed a quick, blind surgery through a short incision to minimize costs and anesthesia time, deliberately leaving the uterus intact. I would in no way recommend this facility.

This place is the best. The staff is extremely friendly and knowledgeable. They really do care about your pets. I had so many bad experiences at other local vets and my poor dog still had his issues. After my first visit here with Dr. Koenitzer my baby is already getting better. I highly recommend this place and this Doctor. The prices are extremely reasonable.

I tried to stay positive, but this place does not know what they are doing. I took my new puppy, who we got through a rescue for his neutering. I wanted another procedure at the same time since he would already be under anesthesia. When I called I was quoted more than half of what they wanted when I came to the appointment. He was also to get his rabies and when I went to pick him up, they tried to tell me he was not to get one.
I did not notice until I left but the second procedure was only half done. I called and was given their standard explanation. I asked to speak with the vet and he explained why this decision was made. I told him I should have been called about the change as this was not what I wanted. His explanation made reasonable sense, but if the plan changes you make sure the customer understands the change before the time of pick up and most definately before leaving the office.

This place is like any other vet, they want to make $ and it’s all about the sales, not your pet.
My dog is 8.5 pounds. She is a mini pin pug mix and less than 2. I took her here 2 months ago as she jumped from our bed and her leg hit the dresser and she was limping.
I was told by a young guy who clearly hasn’t been a vet for very long that my dog needed knee surgery upwards of $ 2000. I decided to do my own research and I iced her knee, gave her the pain meds and she rested for 2 weeks.
The morale of this story is she is running around like nothing and hasn’t limped since. I saved myself an unnecessary surgery and this vet should seriously think about how they treat people. I asked him for other options and he was quick to say that that little dogs are bred so small and they have knee issues all the time that require surgery. Total lie!
I hope they feel good about ripping off patients!

After I had adopted my Cocker Spaniel some years ago from Seal Beach Animal Care Shelter (a no kill shelter, yay), I came here to get my dog all checked up. Making an appointment was easy over the phone and when my husband and I came by, we were greeted right away.
But I was rather disappointed with the lack of caution and care/​service we received when we were brought into an examination room. The employees seem to have recognize our dog, as I believe the Animal Care Shelter had brought him here in the past to be looked at and such. But as the vet tech was about to pick up our dog from the floor (he jumped off the exam table), she got up too fast and hit our poor dog’s head (top of his head) really hard on the bottom of the metal exam table.
My eyes grew large and so did my mouth. Needless to say, I was quite shocked and surprised. This vet tech acknowledged that but just said our dog would be okay… but didn’t apologize for hitting his head so hard against the exam table (it really was a hard hit too, with the loud noise. My dog had a quite whimper, but I am sure he was just afraid since he was in an unfamiliar place and we had just barely adopted him).
Then after she took our dog to the back room, we overheard her and another employee. Because the room was nearby, we overhead their conversation. They said something like ‘what kind of name is Munster?’ (our dog’s name) ‘why would you name a dog that?’ and then the other employee chimed in and said it is from the Munsters show (from the 60’s… and actually that was part of the reason why my husband named our dog that name).
I thought it was funny that the employees were talking about our dog’s name, but wasn’t exactly thrilled by the one vet tech who asked ‘why would you name a dog that’ … I think the name of a dog (or even a person) is very personable. There is a story behind naming someone (pet or person) and preferred for her to have kept her opinion to herself (or at least til after we left).
But aside from those two incidents, the vet itself was knowledgeable but wasn’t thrilled on trying to upsell us on unnecessary procedures/​services. But that is common with veterinarians (I have a friend who is a vet and she admitted the truth to that).
Anyways, this little hospital is rather small and there is a small parking lot in front, but there is also street parking as well.

The doctors here are fantastic. They are very loving to our dogs and are great at explaining everything that needs to be done if one of them are sick. My baby recently had to have an emergency surgery and the doctor called multiple times to check up on his condition.
Minus a star for the ride front desk. I called to ask a question about his stitches getting taken out and she wouldn’t let me ask my question and when I finally did she wouldn’t even answer my question. She just kept asking if I wanted to make an appointment or not. Listen lady, if you’re so busy you can’t answer a question then why don’t you answer the phone and just say so. I would have waited on hold.
Just makes me mad that such awful people would be working around my dogs, my family.

Just called to see about getting our dog spayed. $ 400.00 plus an additional $ 100.00+ because she is currently in heat. WTF? $ 400, to spay a dog? What crack are they smoking?

Please don’t come here. Go to Los VCA down the street.
After 12 years of taking my dog here I am sad to say that they could not figure out what was wrong with him for the last 2 years?! So much money spent on tests and medication that did nothing!
More than 1 Doc saw my dog and could not diagnose him correctly?
But when Doc Andrea Glasser from VCA saw him right away she said «It must be Cushing’s disease» and after some blood test it was confirmed that it was and now my poor dog is finally being treated correctly. Thanks Doc Glasser from VCA !
VCA Rossmoor-​El Dorado Animal Hospital… Go there instead…

Dr. K’s bedside manner is incomparable! Very gentle and kind! Thank you Dr. K for treating my little guy with such care. I will mos def be back!

Dr. Stefan Korzeniowski is fantastic! He helped when my dog was having really bad stomach issues and saved us a ton of money! Thanks Dr. K!

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Wonderful place! Brought my dog Sophie in for a checkup and Dr. K was amazing. Dr. K took his time with Sophie and was great at explaining what was going on with her. It didn’t take long for Sofie to be back to her regular playful self! Thank you so much Dr. K!!!

I have been taking my two hamsters and a cat to Los Alamitos. Animal Hospital for the last few years. The entire staff are nice and friendly.
I rated Los Alamitos animal hospital very poor because every time I take my pets they want to run all kinds of tests and charge a fortune and when I take them to follow ups I have to pay consultation fees again and want to run more tests again.
Last time I paid $ 300 for my cat’s ultrasound and they recommend to do a echocardiogram test. (I wonder how much more?) Poor animal lovers they are always leaving the Vet paying $ 400 and up.
I was highly recommended to a new Vet which I have been very fortunate to meet, her name is Allison Naito, she works at Huntington Pet Vet located in Huntington Beach 714−969−0211 They are very professional and they only charge $ 38 per consultation and follow ups are always free :) They truly care for our pets.

I’m on the fence about Los Alamitos Animal Hospital. They helped my sweet dog out in an emergency and were amazing. It cost me an arm and a leg, but they treated my dog when she most needed it and I am forever grateful for that. I came back for vaccinations and check ups, but man it got expensive. I started looking around for a new animal hospital when I just couldn’t bear to shell out another $ 150. Ultimately I did decide to go with another hospital, but the staff at Los Alamitos Animal Hospital truly care about your pets and love their job. If only they didn’t cost me that arm and leg.

I went here for years, always took our family pets to them. The front staff is friendly and everything, but they are really unprofessional, and SLOWWWW. Dr. Horvath is the best DVM there, the others are just ehh. I don’t like being suggested extra and expensive labs & treatment, just feels like its all about the money:(
I go elsewhere these days…

Pricing: Totally affordable. Our trip came to a total of 130 which included the exam, a stool sample, a shot for nausea, medication for our puppy’s diarrhea.
Service: Warm, comforting and caring staff
Doctor: Helpful, knowledgable, and gave great advice and options for our pup.
We have a 4 month old English bulldog named Nacho who came down with a nasty case of diarrhea and vomiting after changing his diet. I was worried about him since he is so young.
Everything about my experience was wonderful at Los Alamitos Animal Hospital. The staff at the front desk was helpful over the phone when I called at 7:30am and got me an appointment the same day at 9:15. When I came in, they got me in immediately. The doctor was so friendly and explained what parvo was and how my pup would be acting if he had it. She also gave me two treatment plans with options for me to choose what I thought was best for my dog. ALSO, since this was my first visit with a new puppy. They gave me a «Puppy Talk». This was honestly why I gave this vet 5 stars because they went through a bunch of stuff about the health, care, and way to look after my puppy. It also came with one treatment of Advantage (flea treatment) for FREE! I cannot say enough good things about this place. It was affordable and they took great care of my little man and I will definitely be bringing my pup here every time from here on out.

I was in socal for about two months and needed a place to get my kitty’s teeth cleaned. She has pretty bad plaque and tartar, so we checked around the area for a place with reasonable prices. Los Alamitos allowed us to pick and choose what procedures we wanted (blood work, catheter, etc). We ended up going the safe route and getting most of the recommended procedures, but it was nice to have the option to decide what procedures worked for us instead of having them in one lump, expensive package. I’d say teeth cleaning here is about 400 – 600 dollars. Considering most places we checked were charging over 600, we thought we got a good deal.
The vets here are great and they gave us some pretty awesome tips about how to brush our cat’s teeth. Our cat hates the toothbrush, so the vet recommended gauze. It worked! The people who work here are kind and very helpful and I knew my pet was in safe hands.
Also, the kitty that lives in the office (Gary? Jerry?) looks like a lion! He comes out sometimes and sits with the customers. He was my favorite. :)

I love this place and the biggest reasons for the 5 star rating is the vet staff & the pricing. The vet assistants were absolutely fawning over my scared «little» 67-​pound mutt (which is understandable because she’s only, like, the best dog in the world) and she warmed up to them immediately. I also appreciated that they updated me on her behavior during the nail trim because I have such a hard time trimming her nails and also she had been growling earlier at Dr. Korzeniowski.
Which brings me to Dr. Korzeniowski — he’s a fine vet and we took care of PeeBee’s itchy spots with a shot, antibiotics and flea meds prescribed. Unfortunately, PeeBee seems to hate tall men and by our luck we picked the only 6-​foot plus male doctor there so she spent a lot of time growling during the exam. Dr. K was fine with that though (I’ve had one other vet who actually requested a muzzle with even less growling) to his credit.
The facility has a small waiting area which I like to think as «cozy.»
I also give them 5 stars bc of the reasonableness of the prices. My go-​to vet is typically at VCA but VCA is really expensive. Here, they honored the first visit free deal they had on their website (even though I forgot to print it out), which I really appreciated. Plus a free tube of flea medicine since it was our first time here and they also gave us 1 month free of the Comfortis monthly flea med. The flea medication was $ 80 — which is still cheaper than ordering online (had to order online for my other dog who got his prescription at Banfield, because Banfield doesn’t carry Comfortis in the clinic).
I made an appointment on Thursday and was seen Friday. I was also a little bit late but still got seen almost right away. This is a great place to go for basic vet care!

I was looking for a good vet to give me a second opinion for our aging dog that has been having issues with her hind legs.
A very good friend recommended Doctor Korzeniowsky at Los Alamitos Animal Hospital. I have to say that I am very glad that he did. Dr. K took the time to review our x rays and thoroughly examined our Abbie.
He diagnosed a previously undiagnosed bladder infection and counseled me on the alternatives for the treatment of Abbie’s conditions.
I left feeling a lot more comfortable with the direction we were taking and I can’t say enough about his bed side manner.
If you are looking for a good vet you really need to give Los Al Animal Hospital a try.