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October 2024 by Manny Gomez
DO NOT COME HERE. This place sucks. I wasted 4 hours of my day with them. The doctors had an emergency surgery and we had to wait without them even telling us what was going on. Very unprofessional and dirty.
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October 2024 by Ruth Umana
Very friendly staff and reasonable prices
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October 2024 by Denise Wilinski
Balboa Vet is the best vet care we have ever had. They love our fur babies. As much as we do.
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August 2024 by Roula Bashour
Amazing Doctor and staff, been taking my dogs there for 8 years, very happy.
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August 2024 by Wendy Burnside
This is the best vet I’ve ever had. Wish I would’ve found them sooner for my previous pets. Prices for services are very reasonable and they truly care about their customers. Not to mention, everyone is so pleasant and friendly!
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August 2024 by Marina Urquiza
It has been good so far. I had an issue with my little puppy, but he is healing. I wanted to speak with the doctor, but they did not allow me to speak with him, which was odd.
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August 2024 by 89frisco
STAY AWAY FROM HERE IF YOU LOVE YOUR PET. All they care about here is milking as much money out of you as they can for unnecessary treatments. Took my dog here because he had a couple of big lumps, and they charged me $800 dollars, and told me he had been bitten by an insect and that he would be fine in a few days. That it was no big deal, and all i had to do was to give him was some medicine. Three days went by and he kept getting worse. It turns out that diagnosis was totally wrong. He had cancer and was literally dying. They charged me $800 and gave me the wrong diagnosis. I took him to a different veterinary and the guy charged me zero dollars and told me that my dog was dying and needed to go to emergency hospital. I took him to the hospital he recommended and indeed i ended up having to put him down that day.
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August 2024 by 89frisco ..
STAY AWAY FROM HERE IF YOU LOVE YOUR PET. All they care about here is squeezing as much money out of you as they can for unnecessary treatments. They are incompetent, and they don't care about your pet. Took my dog here because he had a couple of big lumps, and they charged me $800 dollars, and told me he had been bitten by an insect and that he would be fine in a few days. That it was no big deal, and all i had to do was to give him was some medicine. Three days went by and he kept getting worse. It turns out that diagnosis was totally wrong. He had cancer and was literally dying. They charged me $800 and gave me the wrong diagnosis. I took him to a different veterinary and the guy charged me zero dollars and told me that my dog was dying and needed to go to emergency hospital. I took him to the hospital he recommended and indeed i ended up having to put him down that day.
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July 2024 by Elias
This is place unprofessional they have no respect for your time. Dirty lobby , I will never Recommend this place to anyone to go there
Very expensive
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July 2024 by Bret T.
Just for the record, I'm not someone who normally gives bad reviews unless it is extremely deserved. Let me first start by saying I have been going to this clinic since I was a child when Dr. Hagaman was the Vet. When Dr. A started gradually taking over it was a tough pill to swallow because Dr. Hagaman was so amazing. Dr. A has been our Vet for the past 20 years, helping us with several of our dogs. He was always generally nice and friendly, but I felt he always over-charged and did un-necessary testing, but we stayed with him for all these years. The last couple years we have noticed a significant drop in his "bedside manner" towards us. My guess is that he knows we have gone to other Vets for 2nd and 3rd opinions on several issues and probably didn't like it. But that's a guess. The most recent interaction was the last straw for my wife and I. We brought our dog in knowing most likely we were going to have to put the dog down. After a brief exam and discussion, we made that horrific decision. What has my wife and I so upset is the callas, robotic and un-feeling way Dr. A and his staff approached this horrific time in a pet owner's life. No remorse, really no sorry for your loss, and no comfort, just very much a matter a fact. I understand to them, it's their job, and they try to stay as professional as possible. We had to put one of our other dogs down last year, and did it at the VCA in West Hills, and I can't begin to tell you the difference. This wasn't even their regular animal, and they put us in a special room off to the side, brought in a bed and blankets and the Dr. that put our dog down was so sweet, kind and understanding. In addition to the lack of feeling from Dr. A, knowing full well we were going to have to put our dog down, he charged us $350 plus $60 for the office visit. We have spent thousand of dollars in that office, and to charge us a damn office visit, plus the ridiculous amount of money to put the dog down was just terrible. This made an already horrible experience even worse. I know the cost of everything has gone up, but this clinic has become such a money grab and so un-feeling. I also found out that Dr. A sold the clinic to a company and no longer has either full ownership or ownership at all. This place has just fallen in ways I can't comprehend, especially compared to when Dr. Hagaman owned it.
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July 2024 by Etana P.
I have been taking my cat here for years, and they seemed fine for the regular check up appointments but things got strange once she had an actual medical issue to deal with. I took her in bc her eye was red and puffy, and they tried to charge me over $500 for an X-ray to see what the problem was. I was a college student, and $500 seemed ridiculous for this problem, so I asked if it was possible to first try a stool sample and eye drops (which were cheaper). 2 days of the eye drops and she was fine and the stool sample showed nothing was wrong- so why did I need to pay $500 for an unnecessary x-ray?? Fast forward a year later, I took her back to get her yearly flea treatment and had them cut her nails like I always do (which was my fault for trusting them again), and she came back with an entire patch of fur missing from the nape of her neck. She was also extremely quiet on the car ride home and skittish when we got inside the house, and she hid from us all day- none of which has ever happened in the time we've had her. Im a very understanding person and know that her having the fur ripped out could have been an accident if she tried to claw at the vet or technician, BUT they never even informed me about any issues and I had to find it myself. I called the vet and asked why we weren't told about this and the receptionist who answered just didn't have an answer for me and said that she wasn't the one who worked on my cat that day. Great. Most of the technicians there seemed nice and capable enough, but the vet was always suspicious to me, and I hated that they would take my cat in to the back and not allow me to come with her during the appt even long after Covid had ended. Basically, moral of the story is to listen to all the other one star reviews, and believe that this clinic is a money-grabbing and non-trustworthy place that will probably not give ur pets the care they deserve.
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July 2024 by connie Macasero
Great people, true pet lovers.
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May 2024 by Shiva Mahdavi
You guys are amazing. Thank you for taking care of my angels
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May 2024 by Steven Nelson
You can’t beat the pricing on some of the surgical care that is offered like dental extraction and spayed/neutering. But during one of our scheduled surgeries the surgeon did not show and I came to pick up my animal only to be told nothing had been done. Not sure how often this happens but that was enough to give my rating a lower number. The desk told me that they had tried to call me to tell me the surgeon had not come in but I had no miss calls and they only tried calling once. Coming from LA at 3:30 on a week day to find out that no work was done was quite the surprise.
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May 2024 by Dave Aultman
Excellent and compassionate doctor.
Great staff too.
