Mission Animal Hospital

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They were amazing. My son's dog was near death. They took her in and basically brought her back from the brink. She was there from 9:30 in the morning to 11 o'clock at night. She had multiple intravenous drugs and blood work done, the $285 was pretty reasonable.

My son's American bull dog was extremely ill. We walked in and they saw her. The Vet tech is an amazing human being. They took one look at her and realize that she was dying. It came on really fast, so they took her in. They called my son and talked to him and admitted her to the hospital. To keep costs down we waited on doing any extra lab work or x-rays and I took her home that night so we didn't have to accrue an overnight. They sent me home with medication. They are an amazing vet place. They saved her life. Her fever was 105and deg; and they swooped in and took her into their ER and put her on ice and got her fever down and they put her on antibiotics. I am a big animal person so that is huge for me. It's an amazing place, good positive energy. The Lab vet was amazing; she took her in right away. There were people ahead of us that had been there a bit but she took her first because we were going to lose her. She explained and everybody understood. It was a great price, they were very professional, they explained everything to us. They also encourage us to call every hour to get an update and to see how she was doing.

They're all about money, which is unfortunate. Their quality of care has gotten really bad. They've tripled their staff. They have 4-5 mobile vet clinics and will go out to towns that are farther away. They offer a reasonable exam but when they start writing the estimates up it gets really bad. They took so much time writing up an estimate that one of my cats died while waiting. They used to take care of all of our animals, at least 8 of our pets. They told me one of my cats was going to die, I wound up with a $900 bill and all he had was an upper respiratory infection. They stuck needles in his lungs and it took about 6 months before he would let us touch him. They were going to kick him loose with no pain medication and his antibiotics because we were only able to pay $750 of the $900 upfront, and didn't give us the medicine until we paid the other portion. The cat is back to his old self again and all it took was antibiotics. He's fathered 4 litters of kitten since; he's between 12-15 years old.

It wasn't an overly busy time of day, so our dog could be seen within 5 minutes of our arrival. The vet, Dr. Johnson, and her assistant were able to take her vital signs and take her history immediately. I had taken her in before so they at least had all her meds and x-ray from when I took her a few months earlier for the first time when she was having the start of an aspiration pneumonia. At that visit, the vet went over every organ in her body which was the first time in my dog's 10 years of going to different vets. They gave an itemized cost before any treatment was given so you could pick and choose what you thought was worth it.
Well this last visit they did the same and even when I wanted another x-ray to look for injury, she said it would be costly and that it appeared by the dogs gait that it was a shoulder strain. She also fully checked with her fingers every vertebrae to make sure it wasn't a spinal issue which is common in this breed. She also recommended that we get her a floatation device for the dog where she can swim in our bathtub so there would be no stress on the shoulder. She gave her an injection of an anti-inflammatory, gave us a 10 day supply of pills to be taken 2x day of pain medication and anti-inflammatory. Also during the exam, she checked all her other cured ailments she had before.
After 3 days, the dog was back on her feet, but slowly. She did drink water and eat immediately once the pain subsided that day. Her swimming is going well and she is back to barking again, although it was nice in a way having her quiet, but hated that she was not acting well at all. She is now back to climbing her stairs to get on the couch and bed and I found the culprit to her problem - she jumps out of excitement off of the large ottoman we have by the couch and you can see how all her weight (and she is overweight) just forces itself on her stubby front legs. So all is well.
The are also open 7 days a week from 7am to 10pm and will make house calls! They also have a vet on staff for after hour services in an emergency.