I had two experience with this hospital. The first was over a year ago with my whippet. My regular vet heard a slight heart murmur and recommended we see a cardiologist at VCR. We took him there, and they did a cardiac workup which was what my vet recommended. It turned out that the murmur was so small that no medication was necessary. Although VCR did what my regular vet asked, and I agreed, I think the cardiologist could have taken a few moments to do better clinical diagnises to see if we REALLY needed to spend over $1,000 to diagnose what turned out to be a very minor problem that didn't require medication. It seems that not even specialists can do basic clinal examinations any more! I wonder why this is? This esperience fits the profile that VCA is, indeed, a money pit.\r
My second visit confirmed this. Over a weekend my saluki showed some signs of mild lethargy; we took him to VCA and two vets recommended we hospitalize the dog in ICU. He also had a very low grade fever. We ha
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