Business ProfileforCollege Road Animal Hospital

I write this in hope that your kitten won't have to suffer as mine did. I do take some responsibility because it's common knowledge that declawing is not recommended..not only that. It's cruel. I know that now. My previous vet does not declaw nor do other vets I tried before I found Dr Lansing, the owner of College Road Animal Hospital. Of course there is risk and I knew that, but Dr. Lansing's explanation of the laser declawing procedure before the surgery compared to after his surgery that caused nerve damage and chronic pain was remarkably different. Had Dr. Lansing described the surgery to me as he did when it was too late, I would not have gone through with it. And had Dr. Lansing been as callous with me before as he was after, I would not have gone through with it. But I did agree. I knew in my gut it was wrong and I listened to what I wanted to hear. As long as I didn't have to deal with Dr. Lansing, the other doctors and staff compassionately treated my kitten. Dr. S came to my car and consulted, but when I asked Dr. Lansing if he could come outside, he couldn't...or wouldn't. When I asked him this last time to speak with me over the phone, he wouldn't. Dr. Lansing refused to see my kitten, telling me that I should go somewhere else or pay for the emergency visit at night. Note: previously, the other doctors had no trouble refilling the meds, but he was refusing to refill and to see the kitten he had operated on- the kitten who had brought in over 2000 dollars to his business. I had recently written these same sentiments I'm sharing now on an email to his office and my only conjecture is that he was not happy with me, and in turn, was taking it out on my kitten. But he finally agreed to write a refill on my kitten's pain meds, but only after I told him my conjecture, begged, and mentioned talking to a lawyer. All this for pain meds that had been refilled continuously since the surgery he performed in April. My kitten was in pain, Dr. Lansing refused to see her (even though walk-ins are encouraged), and I couldn't find a vet with an opening before her pain meds ran out. Out of desperation, I was willing to go away quietly so I could get the meds. But even until the very end, his actions show ill intent. He proved he's just as cold when it comes to money as he is when it came to treating my kitten. He gave me 4 days of medicine and tried to charge me the same as 20 days of medicine. After refusing to pay 5 times as much as was ethical, I finally received the right amount at the right amount. I would not be acting ethically if I didn't share my experience and warn others. And if all that isn't enough: He thought he was operating on my previous cat who would have been almost two at the time of surgery and who been spaded as shown in the records of Sept 2020. Instead he was operating on a 5 mouth old kitten in April of 2021 who had just obviously been spaded. My five month old kitty is gray and white. My previous kitten was a brown tabby. There's no excuse. Gratefully, I have a kind vet now-one who doesn't condone declawing. A vet so willing to declaw as Dr. Lansing is without offering ways to avoid it shouldn't be a vet. Shame on me for scraping the barrel to find such a vet. Shame on Dr. Lansing, t