I live on Capitol Hill and switched my first dog, a Samoyed then 10 years old, to AAH in 1998 -- after a friend's dog collapsed in the middle of the night, was taken to Friendship Heights vet hospital and was forced to put the dog back in the car to rush to AAH to get a blood transfusion. I have been delighted with AAH ever since. If your pet has a problem and the vet needs to confer with other doctors, you get the benefit of a large team and their decades of experience. When Buck was 13 and diagnosed with a treatable but incurable condition, the AAH vets stressed quality of life centered on diet and meds, instead of expensive invasive procedures to simply extend her life. They worked with me to devise a healthy home-cooked diet, augmented with holistic supplements as well as traditional prescriptions. When regularly scheduled bloodwork showed her kidneys were also failing, the doctor called in the evening to gently say that to save Buck from suffering, a hard decision was needed.
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