I guess I’ll join the ranks of people giving this place one star.
I’ll start by saying that I foster cats and kittens, so I have utilized many vets in the metro area and have great relationships with the vast majority of them. PPI, however, has been terrible since I started working with them. The only reason I did was because of the low cost of spay and neuter. I won’t go into the many aspects of how bad their customer service is, since many people have written about the rudeness of the front desk staff. I will point out that the office manager said to a coworker, in front of me, while I was checking cats in for surgery, “I don’t like cats.” Okay, why are you working for a vet then? And why would you say that in front of a client who was dropping off cats for surgery?
Now for the mistakes: the first one was when I asked for nail trims on three semi-ferals I was taming. They didn’t do the nail trims but charged me for them. When I brought this to their attention, they said they couldn’t do a refund but would credit my account. The next time I was there, they had no record of the credit and seemed annoyed that I asked about it. They said, rudely, "Why do you want nail trims on ferals anyway?" None of your business, frankly, since I paid for the service.
Then was the time they forgot to ask me to fill out paperwork and called me half an hour later, saying they couldn’t do surgery without the paperwork. I asked if they could email me something, but they wouldn’t, so I had to leave work to come back in.
This recent time was the final straw. I asked for FIV/FELV tests on two kittens, and they said they were unable to get blood for the tests. This is an incredibly basic vet tech task. A vet office should have someone who can draw blood from a friendly kitten. Also, they were anesthetized for surgery. They could have taken blood then. For the record, when I took the same kittens to my personal vet the next day, they had no issue drawing blood for the test. I asked if they could try one more time to draw blood, which they got with no problem. However, they never sent me the test results (which I paid for).
Also at this same visit, they did a horrible botch job on a kitten’s cryptorchid neuter. The incision looks terrible. Also, they didn’t tell me that there were stitches that need to be removed. I luckily am competent at noticing things like this, but imagine if I didn’t know and they never mentioned it.
I wanted to give this place a chance since they’re so cheap and they’re close to me, but I would rather drive into town for one of the many low cost spay/neuter clinics that is competent, respectful, and treats their clients like they’re glad they are clients, rather than acting like it’s an inconvenience to perform veterinary services on my cats.