August 2024 by Jessica Stewart
If I could give this clinic a zero star rating, I would. If you care about your pets, bring them somewhere else. I haven’t used this clinic in years because they wrongly diagnose your animal, which almost kills your pet, then they get rude when you question the wrong diagnoses. Now, my father still used Kimmel, and unfortunately, I could not convince him to go somewhere else until it was too late, and he experienced for himself, first hand the lack of compassion and care that this clinic has for animals. My father has, well, had an older dog, who stopped wanting to eat, her stomach got hard and bloated, and she was falling over, not wanting to walk, and was struggling to breathe. He made an appointment with Kimmel on Saturday, where he was told his dog had a heart murmur and had fluid in her lungs. He was given fluid pills for this dog, and was told to bring her back on Monday so they could drain the fluid from her lungs. At this point, he decided he wanted to personally speak with Dr Kimmel Monday and see if it was in the dogs best interest to be euthanized so she wouldn’t have to continuously go through having fluid drained, not being able to breathe, he did not want his dog to suffer anymore. He was told by a staff member that dr Kimmel was too busy and could not come out and speak to him about this, but they would relay the message, and was pretty much convinced by whatever staff member he spoke to, that this would give his dog relief and buy her more time. So he leaves her there to have fluid drained from her lungs, and not even an hour after dropping her off, he gets a call that she is ready to be picked up. ? So he goes to get her, and is prescribed an even stronger fluid pill. When he arrives to get her, she is in the exact same condition she was in when he brought her. There is no improvement at all. The dog can barely walk, had to be picked up and put into the car, picked up and carried into the house, will not walk. Still panting, gasping to breathe. He gives the dog the new, stronger fluid pill, no help. No improvement, dogs condition is actively worsening and now she won’t eat. At all. She won’t eat her dog food, won’t eat canned dog food, won’t eat meat, and now she will not drink water. So I give him the info for my vet that I use, he calls and they get his dog in immediately, he wants a second opinion. The vet he brings her to for a second opinion, has Kimmel send over the dogs records so she can see exactly what they’ve done test wise, and treatment wise, and there is nothing in the dogs records about having fluid drained from her lungs, which we were already suspicious of them considering the short time she was there, and the dog having no improvement whatsoever. New vet confirms heart murmur, says the dogs heart didn’t sound good at all, discussed options of test that could be done, but in the end supported the decision to have her euthanized because she would not have much treatment option, and was not likely her quality of life at this point would improve. So thanks, Kimmel, for being unable to communicate with people about their pets condition, and making a dog suffer longer than she needed to just so you could make some extra money? Needless to say, two days after the “treatment” our pet supposedly “received” at this clinic, she was humanely euthanized at a different vets clinic, who actually genuinely cares about the well-being of animals.
