On December 3, I took my little dog to Parkway Pet Clinic because she had a tumor on her neck. The doctor urged me to give her another rabies shot even though she just had one (alighnment) and said he'd had a patient with a tumor like Nancy's. He told her to ""keep an eye on it"" and the dog subesequently died from cancer.\r
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I got an estimate, $564.40-$715. I went home and found someone to loan me the money. I had $605, and without the catheter and blood panel (the assistant told me this) I could just swing the surgery,\r
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I went back to tell the staff it had to be $605, or I wouldn't be able to pay for it. Three hours after the visit, my estimate had been ""Updated"" to $790 and no one at the clinic would give me a reason why.\r
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When I wouldn't let them get away with it, the girl said, ""What do you want me to do?"" I said, ""You could apologize.' She glared at me. It wasn't a mistake, it was an update and apparently, I was just too dumb to figure that out.\r
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I protested in front of their office on East Valley Parkway. They called the police on me twice, and the police said I had every right to be there. They said I had badgered clients. The cop laughed at them. He said he had been watching me since there first call and I had been in the same spot the whole time.\r
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I'm sorry that the officers have to waist there time, but I feel this is necessary under my right to freedom of speech. I go the sidewalk in front of the clinic every day, not knowing what lie they will tell next. The surgeon's husband has harassed me, and the assistant came out and called me crazy. ""Now we know what we're dealing with,"" she said. The officers THEY had called told me not to talk to them, so I didn't. This time, I called the police for my own protection. I was afraid they lie about my activities. The officer said they already had. They were making up ""all kinds of stuff."" Where is the surveillance tapes? Where are the witnesses or the customers themselves? They don't have anything like this, only lies. These aren't the kind of people I want to have working on my animals.
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