My four month old Great Dane wasn't looking or feeling too well. He refused to eat, was vomiting and had runny poop. After three days of thhis behavior, I took him to the nearest animal hospital ( Gardner Animal Hospital). We were the first patients in the morning, the vet (Dr. Mertz) hadden't yet arrived.
We patiently waited for over 15 minutes to be assisted by a nurse. An hour later the vet finally showed up. They ran some tests, took blood, and injected liquids into my puppy that made him cry. The vet said he has "parvovirus" which he wasn't showing the MAIN symptoms of parvo which is bloody stool,high temp and high white blood cell count.
We were tight on money but proceeded to give credit card info to charge the account when our payceck went through. We told the Dr many times "We don't care what it costs just make him better please!" They sent us home with our puppy thinking maybe we could treat him ourselves and lessen the risk of him becoming depressed and "giving up".
They gave us 2 bags of 900cc fluids,6 cans of pudding like food and antibiotics for the puppy.
That night he got worse. We rushed him in the hospital first chance we got and ommitted him to stay until he got better. not more that 28 hours and he died. They didn't tell us he wasn't doing well that morning, they didn't let us see him. By the time we woke up and called them to check on our pup,they had already double bagged him and put him in a freezer.
We then proceeded to go to the hospital and knock on the door until someon let us in to see our puppy. we held him for one last time ,in two blue trashbags,in a freezer.
Gardner Animal Hospital Reviews
My four month old Great Dane wasn't looking or feeling too well. He refused to eat, was vomiting and had runny poop. After three days of thhis behavior, I took him to the nearest animal hospital ( Gardner Animal Hospital). We were the first patients in the morning, the vet (Dr. Mertz) hadden't yet arrived.
We patiently waited for over 15 minutes to be assisted by a nurse. An hour later the vet finally showed up. They ran some tests, took blood, and injected liquids into my puppy that made him cry. The vet said he has "parvovirus" which he wasn't showing the MAIN symptoms of parvo which is bloody stool,high temp and high white blood cell count.
We were tight on money but proceeded to give credit card info to charge the account when our payceck went through. We told the Dr many times "We don't care what it costs just make him better please!" They sent us home with our puppy thinking maybe we could treat him ourselves and lessen the risk of him becoming depressed and "giving up".
They gave us 2 bags of 900cc fluids,6 cans of pudding like food and antibiotics for the puppy.
That night he got worse. We rushed him in the hospital first chance we got and ommitted him to stay until he got better. not more that 28 hours and he died. They didn't tell us he wasn't doing well that morning, they didn't let us see him. By the time we woke up and called them to check on our pup,they had already double bagged him and put him in a freezer.
We then proceeded to go to the hospital and knock on the door until someon let us in to see our puppy. we held him for one last time ,in two blue trashbags,in a freezer.