We were lucky enough to find Shawn and his staff after visiting numerous vets that had given us a variety of diagnoses, and expensive treatments that yielded little improvement for our dog who had significant allergy issues. He provided us with the first no nonsense assessment of our pet's condition, all the available treatment options- from keeping our dog comfortable to exploring more extreme alternatives, and he also explained how those options would affect our pet short term and long term. Shawn and his staff give wonderful personal attention to the pet and owner!

I tend to try and not write bad reviews, but my last visit left me with such a bad taste in my mouth, I not only decided to switch vets, but also write about what happened. Without going into too specific details, I had to bring my dog into the vet because she was having respiratory issues. The doc diagnosed her with pneumonia and gave us the meds to take care of her. The meds were quite expensive, and I really didnt think twice about it at the time. After the first round of meds were used up, she had to go through another round. This time, I decided to do a little research and found a legitimate and authorized pet meds distributor off the internet that would sell the EXACT SAME meds for nearly half the price. The normal procedure for this is the internet company contacts the vets office and the vets office faxes the prescription to them. However, this vet offices REFUSES to work with any internet med company. Period. Meaning if I wanted to save over $50, I had to snail-mail the prescription to them....which means my dog had to wait almost 2 weeks to get the meds. The doc was also very confrontational regarding us even considering using an internet site for meds and made both myself and my roommate feel very pressured into buying the meds from them only. I understand they have overhead and it costs a lot to run a business, but if you do choose to use this vet, be VERY careful about what meds they prescribe for you pet. Do some research ahead of time if you can and dont feel pressured into accepting the meds then and there. This is NOT common practice. I called up 3 other highly rated vets in the same general area, and none of them have that same policy - in fact, most of them said they would do their best to match any internet prices we bring to their attention, but if it came down to it, they would be more than willing to fax the paperwork to the pet meds company. For those reasons, I have decided to change to a different vet.

1. My wife setup an appointment based on the many good reviews she found of Dr. Seibel (a fellow Texas Aggie) on the internet. We were surprised that there was a replacement vet there when we showed up only a few hours later for our appointment ("emergency continuing education summit" or some such thing). We were looking for a skilled 2nd opinion based on multiple previous vet vists, and it was very disappointing to essentially end up drawing a random vet out of a hat. #2 is based on that stand-in vet 2. We got a puppy from a pretty bad New Mexico dog pound via a rescue group based in Evergreen, CO. The two dozen puppies they rescued were not long for this world and thus their conditions were pretty bad. Ever since we got our puppy, his scratching and biting had been increasing steadily. Two vets had already strongly suggested general allergies, but based on our own Googling, terrible living conditions, and extensive elimination of allergen variables it seemed much more likely that this was some sort of mite (probably sarcoptic). We suggested this to the replacement vet, but I was under the impression that she felt I was off my rocker for thinking that. She just gave us some antibiotics and sent us on our way. Basically, she missed / ignored a legitimate (albeit inconclusive) concern and that led to further puppy yelping and self-mutilation. As his itching, bleeding, and general misery increased over the next couple of days, we went back to our first vet and insisted for a FDA approved treatment for the scabies (topical Revolution at 2 week intervals). Sure enough, within several days he generally started improving and within ~4 weeks he seems mostly cured. After about 1.5 weeks we went back to our original vet for the final round of puppy vaccinations and there were additional signs of ear crust that the led to a clear diagnoses of "mites". Bottom line: we went in with an incredibly specific concern (after *extensive* laymen research) and left largely ignored, with a dog getting sicker, and $200 lighter in the wallet. According to web-searches, it is fairly common for sarcoptic mites to be misdiagnosed as environmental and food allergies, but that is why it seems to be just as common for vets to prescribe Revolution or another low-side-effect mite control even without conclusive clinical test results.

Am so glad to find someone to trust in this area. I believe you will take very good care of my dogs.

Jeremy allowed me to pick up extra medicine for my dog today and split my payment so that it was more convenient for me.