Dr. Mears and his staff are amazing! They are very compassionate and truly care for the animals they see:) Highly recommend...
I think the Shiloh Vet Clinic and their staff and Dr. Mears are amazing! They have been there for me for all kinds of situations. We are military and my husband was K9 so we adopt retiring K9 dogs and they have been a handful! Dr. Mears has been fantastic with all of them and taken excellent care of our dogs!!! We had to put our beloved Freckles down about a year ago and they were so gracious! Even made a paw print for me to keep and remember him by! We now have a new puppy and they are taking excellent care of her too! I wouldn't take my dogs anywhere else!
MY DOG BECAME BLIND after what was supposed to be a simple oral surgery at the Shiloh Veterinary Clinic. Initially, I took my dog to get her teeth checked out because of severe bad breath. Turned out that my dog would need to get about 7-8 rotten teeth surgically removed, according to Dr. Mears’ examination. On the morning of surgery, I dropped off my dog at the clinic as instructed, anticipating a call in the afternoon for when I’d need to pick her up. However, about an hour later, the clinic’s other vet, Dr. Beltz, called me recommending the extraction of all of my dog’s teeth. The possibility of removing all of my dog’s teeth was not mentioned during the initial visit so I worried about the potential complications and what might result of such an extensive surgery. The doctor assured me that there shouldn’t be any problems, and that it would be the best option for my dog in the long-run. So I agreed to the doctor’s recommendation, under the assurance that my dog will do just fine after surgery. When my dog returned home after surgery, I noticed that something was off about her. She’d walk around the house, but would keep bumping into furniture and other fixtures. At first, I assumed it was because the anesthesia hadn’t worn off and that she’d be fine after a few hours. However, the strange behavior continued for the next couple of days and I took my dog back to the Shiloh Veterinary Clinic a few days shy of her follow-up appointment. The doctor examined my dog, noting the unusual nature of my dog’s problem, and suggested that I wait 2 more weeks and bring her back if the blindness persisted. She said that the blindness might be a temporary side-effect from anesthesia and that my dog should recover after a while according to some article she had read. Well, 2 weeks passed and my dog showed no change, but I did not return to the clinic. Instead, I took my dog to a veterinary ophthalmologist. There, the doctor diagnosed my dog’s sudden decrease in vision to most likely have been brought on by severe stress, possibly worsened by the effect of anesthesia. He declared that my dog’s blindness is untreatable. I believe the aforementioned severe stress that my dog experienced was from extracting all of her teeth during one surgery. My story is a warning to all pet-owners not to take your lovely pet to the Shiloh Veterinary clinic. Your pet could be next one coming out of the clinic with blindness.
They are quite pricey in my book, but you get what you pay for and they've taken good care of my dogs so far!
DID NOT LISTEN TO US! My cat has a very bad grooming problem. She licks herself to the point she is bald and even scabbing in places. This problem started four months after we got her from the shelter and has lasted a year and a half. We have been to two different vets. The Shiloh vet for the first time is started to happen pretty badly. Dr. Mears said it was flea allergies...Okay maybe. Three flea medications, a flea bomb in the house and no outside time later and she is still licking. And she is not only licking in the summer 'flea' months, but ALL year long. It got to the point recently she started scabbing again. So we took her back in. My husband and I both tried to relay she has very odd behavior on top of the excessive grooming. EVERY single night, as soon as lights go out, our cat has a ritual. She brings a certain toy, wherever it is at, into the bedroom and proceeds to chew on it. While she is doing this, she is making strange meowing noises. She ONLY meows at night. She licks worse when something disturbs her. For example; furniture arrangement, car rides, my work schedule changes. My husband brought up the possibility of OCD caused by stress because she licks herself excessively and her ease of getting freaked out. Dr. Mears response was somewhere along the lines of "I've seen a cat with OCD before and she licked her arms and her belly. This behavior isn't like that." WHAT??!! It is EXACTLY like that. She has licked herself raw around the tail area and her back. So apparantly to have OCD, your cat has to lick certain areas. I am absolutely disappointed and disgusted with this vet clinic. Not only this issue, but it costs a ridiculous amount just to be told she does NOT have flea allergies or mites and they need to run more tests, aka more money for them. I will NEVER take my animals here again.
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Best Friends Animal Hospital & Pet: Staehle Kimberly DVM | 202 Frank Scott Parkway East | Vets | 07:00 AM - 07:00 PM |
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