Banfield Pet Hospital

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Banfield Pet Hospital Reviews

Carlo April 9, 2010
Extreme overcharge for broken toe
My daughter's dog was limping on a Saturday, so we took him to Banfield to assess the problem. After 5 x-rays, they determined he had a broken toe and splinted and wrapped it. The bill?: $696.00!!! What for? Office charge, medication, hopsital fee, wrapping materials, everyone who breezed by the room while it was happening ($43 each, about 10 of those, not kidding). It would have been more had the vet foregone charging for two of the x-rays and my daughter opted not to have blood work done to make sure the medications wouldn't cause liver damage!! After three days, the splint was out of position and we took him to our regular vet who stated that the splint was the wrong size, wrapping was done wrong, and the charge?: $50.00 Banfield is not only incompetent, but unethical, and frankly on the edge of immoral in how they treat customers. From what I can tell, the ONLY thing they are truly interested in is $$$$.
Sam April 6, 2010
Our black lab puppy died in the hands of a banfield vet!
Our puppy (1 year and 4 months) had been a patient of banfield for the last year and we were on the wellness program. We had been very happy up until now. Our puppy was fixed at banfield and then a year later was suffering some stomach problems. I took her severa; times for stomach issues, vomitting, etc. They gave her medicine to take, gave her iv solution for two days and hand fed her for a day and took numerous x-rays ( gas was what they saw on the x-rays. Then gave her the barium to see where the blockage was... Found that it didn't go far, so had to do xploratory surgery. Once they got it they called and told us what they found and they were not able to do antyhing at this point, becasue the doc did not feel comfortable doing this intricate of a surgery, but they could sew her back up and we could then transport her to a hopital and surgeon 2 hours away who may be aboe to help her (already costed $3, 000.00) to this point. We did not choose to transport her, what if she would die on the way? So.. they could not do not anything else at this point, but to let her die ( or euthanize her). They did not tell of these kind of complications and they were unable to do these kinds of operations before hand. When they took my baby in they assured me that she would be ok. If only I would have known that I would never see my baby alive again. Nor would my kids ...We are so very sad and lost without her. We all have a holes in our hearts and lives.
In Memory of Rocky March 26, 2010
Cremation mistake
Our dog of 11 years was being treated for palliative care. When the time came to make the very difficult decision to put him to sleep I made specific arrangements with three diffierent technicians plus the veterinarian to make sure I received his ashes back. I paid almost 500.00 to make sure this happened and after two weeks I called (thye didn't follow up with me) to find out the status of my dog's ashes. After two days of gettingt he run around I was informed that someone had mislabeled the tags and my dog had gone out for mass cremation (meaning I would not get his ashes back). I do not wish this feeling on anyone. We had been waiting for his remains to come back to us. This would have been our closure and because of negligence we were not allowed that closure. I reminded them several times that day to make sure my dog was labeled correctly and this still occurred. On top of it all they took an additonal three weeks to provide me with a cremation certificate that had the wrong date on it. Unbelievable and heartbreaking. I lost my dog forever and completely as I was robbed of his remains.
Alohacowgirl March 19, 2010
$550 for a scratch
I took my cat in because his back leg was limping. They estimated that the charges would be up to $325 to $400 dollars. I said " are you serious" dont do anything untill you talk to me first. They called me in 3 hours and said they needed my permission to sudate him for $22.00 I asked if that was really necessary and they convinsed me that he was in a lot of pain and they needed to right away. Ok, so I get a call later and they say I can pick him up at 4pm and my Bill was $550 or I could sign up for the Wellness plan and save. $145 and pay $22 a month. Sure is sounds good when you dont have the money to pay your bills. Turns out my cat had an infected scratch on his back leg and nothing more. These people take advantage of anyone and everyone. The wellness plan only benefits them and no one else, sure you get a discount...so called discount but you are sure to exceed the wellness plan because they will get $22 a month from everyone and reel them in on unnecessary test that they can charge you for outside of what is covered in the plan. This is why people are spending 10.5 billion dollars more each year on there pets. We love our pets, but just because we love our animals doesn't mean Banfield pet Hospital should take advantage of people who want give good care to our pet. We can still own a pet and not be in debt! This Pet hospital should be shut down, its a trap and a very dishonest business that know that they are doing wrong to all who come in to do business with them. SAD, but I just want to warn all of you. Dont make the same mistake as I did and go here.
rocio horan March 8, 2010
billing complaint and staff
Dog became sick while boarded at petsmart. Dog was sent to pet hospital since was in store (Banfield Pet Hospital). After one week went to pick up my dog and was told it had to get some medications due to being sick. I asked how much do I owe and was told x amount for everything. I paid and went home on the 4th. My mother asked a few days later (emergency number for pets) if dog was okay becuase she was sick. I told here everything was fine. My mother told me that they had to charge me more cause the dog was sick, they called her to get okay. When I checked out they told me at the petsmart nothing about bill at Banfield Pet Hospital. Now on the 13th Saturday message was on recorder from Banfield Pet Hospital...need not respond due to I worked late and store was closed when I got home. Monday am the 15 answered phone from rude person from Banfield Pet Hospital. I was told if I did not pay immediately would turn my account into debt collectors. I told them if problem with bill why did they wait 9-10 days before contacting me? They had my phone number and new when I checked out. I paid the bill a few days later. I will not go there ever again... Front desk or the person on phone should seek employment elsewhere not a people person...not sure a pet person too? This place should look into billing policy. How do they expect people to pay when they do not know? Several people at the desk when I paid seemed to think it was all my fault. HEY IF YOU WAIT 9 DAYS TO NOTIFY ME AND GET MAD BECAUSE I HAVE NOT PAID YOU IN 9 DAYS...WHOSE FAULT IS THAT! I see from web search on complaints about Banfield Pet Hospital...I am just one of the many.
Linus and Lisa March 4, 2010
not an honest place and bad health car for animals, they are liars and thieves over priced and incompotent
Susan burnham one of the vets and director i believe is a rude...you know she and the other doctor who is a floater are incompotent, they suggest unneeded surgeries to bring in money to their clinic because the clinic is falling i had 2 second opinions and neither of them suggested surgeries in fact was against it but these were well established vets that dont just do surgery fir the hell of it to bring money in they only do if necessary i am so glad i follwed friends and family to get a second and then third opinion both places very nice, professional and informative ..for weeks they didnt even have a doctor on staff for several days. they become angry when you dont purchase medicine from them, it took this crazy vet a week to fax over my dogs heart worm medicine, when i called her to ask her to refax it to 1800pet...she started screaming like she had a mental health problem then hung up in my face. this place is just a complete rip off the doctors/vets are not experienced people actually act crazy even the nurses and the people that answer the phone act like idiots but they say poor management trinkles down, now they are saying i owe them money and i donot i want to end the contract it just started again feb3rd i will try and cancel today again i put in a complaint to corporate on february 8th they said someone would be back in contact in one week i havent heard from them and its been a month later.please donot take your animals to this place, there are some really good vets out here and their prices cheaper than Banfield, bafiels is a complete rip OFF
Eddy February 28, 2010
Scam
The Banfield in Roseville Mi is a Joke. All they care about is money. The female Dr. "M" is a complete joke. She hates her job and does not care about your animal just the money you are willing to dish out for you pet.

Banfield's so called "Vet techs" are not even liscened vet techs at the Roseville location. Banfield tries so desperately to rope you into their "wellness plans". Employees get paid for every pet they enroll. It really does'nt save you much money. After paying the membership fee and breaking down the monthly payments you maybe save a few dollars. It's not worth the money. Just find a real vet. Everybody at that location is a joke. They have absolutely no compassion for you pet, just your wallet!!
shiningstar February 24, 2010
unsanitary surgury
i took my puppy to banfield, she cut her paw on glass, she was bleeding terribly, they were still open, i paid 870 dollars for day surgery, they charged me for after hours dollars, they tortured her, but stitched her, in a room with other dogs cats and had her on the floor, they said to come back for a change of dressing for free as part of the service, unfortunately, this gets worse, i said she needed a relaxat and they said no, it will be ok, then then held her head on the floor pushing it into the floor, as she licked the floor, god knows how bad that was, then took her and pushed her against the cabinets, then her tale was banging like a rock concert against the cabinets, and she cryed and screamed and then pushed her head worse, she used her tongue to get some liquid against the floor, as dogs hovered around her, no one had gloves on, and when the bandages came off, the blood went alll over, it was her stress, pushing blood through the stitches but did not tare them, she was given too little pain and anxiety medicine, she will never go back there again, i went to mission pet hospital, where someone who once worked there said "she would never bring her pets there". they treated here humanily, it was a 360 degree difference
Rena Batiste February 13, 2010
Overcharged with no diagnosis
I brought my two dogs to Banfield Veterinary today one had a high fever and the other a cough. The veterinary had no idea why my one dog had the fever. She said she would have to do complete blood work and an xray, in order to evaluate why she had the fever. The results were negetive. She was unable to give me a diagnosis. She then told me that the next test that should be done was a urinary tract catheter, and also give her IV fluids with an over nite stay at a vet of my choice. The whole thing would run me $850.00. Being that the blood work and xray had been done already. I just felt it in my gut that these people were not interested in the well being of my dog, but how much money they could rack up on all the tests. I declined anymore test and went in to pick up my dog. They gave me a couple of weeks worth of antibiotics and a bill for $568.00. The vet also said that there was no guaranty that the antibiotics would work. I would not ever recomment this place to anyone. My other dog got off cheap it only cost me $62 for office visit and meds. BEWARE
ZacI56 January 28, 2010
Horrible experience
I would not recommend this place to anyone who really love their pets... They do not treat your pet as family!!! The service is horrible, they book so many clients at the same time that you have to wait over 3 hours for your appointment and then they come back and don't even know if they did what they were supposed to do. It is just disgusting and they do not even have the courtesy to contact their clients if a payment does not go through but send your account directly to collections. Oh, and please don't even think about cancelling their disgusting service because there are more fees and penalties!!! What kind of place is this????

My best friend's dog went there for a biopsy and they did not even call her to give her the results and she had to go to the place in several opportunities trying to find out the results...nobody knew where the results were!!

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