Gentle Cat Doctor of Ardmore

We first started to go to the Gentle Cat Doctor when it was in Bryn Mawr. Dr. Neely diagnosed one of our cats when our other vet could not and the care she gave all the cats was excellent. She and her staff provided excellent treatment to our cats. They did, however, often recommend expensive tests, most of which we turned down. After she had been treating our cats for a number of years, she refused to put down one of our cats (17 years old) who was very, very ill and in pain. She want to hospitalize her and give her painful and expensive tests to see if she could be kept alive. We refused, and decided to take her to another vet. That vet said she had many health problems and that she had little chance of recovery. That vet euthanized her, and even sent us a personal sympathy note a week or so after. more

I brought my cat here a few years ago for a dental cleaning. I have no idea what they did to her, but they wound up claiming she had to be hospitalized and kept her for several (very expensive days). They later said she had to be intubated because she wasn't eating (put a feeding tube down her thorat) and I said no way. I brought her home that day and the next day she was fine, eating food on her own and nothing remarkable was wrong with her. Pros: They cleaned my cats teeth Cons: Inexperienced and did not properly treat my cat who had a soar mouth from the cleaning. more