Park Animal Hospital and Wellness Center

I have taken several pets here for the last few years. Dr. Christina Spears is The Best, always listening and being an advocate for the best interest of the animals. The staff is always welcoming and friendly and they all worked Really Hard during the pandemic shut-down to make sure pets were seen. I can always get an urgent appointment if necessary. I highly recommend Park Animal Hospital and Wellness Center.

*CAUTION before bringing in your pet* Writing this review so people have an understanding of what happened to my dog here. First I will say this place does have great vets on occasion, however they move on. That being said I found Dr Justin Daughtry who was here for a while. He now works at VCA deer creek and is opening a new practice soon in DTC. He’s incredible, also doesn’t advocate procedures your pet doesn’t need. Please go see him!! I just took my 11.5 year old golden to see Dr. Rice. She had acute onset diarrhea with blood after eating something small in the elevator. After a quick physical and expecting to get on antibiotics this Dr. told me that her professor (she graduated in May) told her not to use metronizadole (antibiotic to treat diarrhea) due to antibiotic resistance. She then proceeded to tell me due to weight loss and pale gums (both of which another vet explained were due to dehydration) “she felt my dogs diarrhea was due to underlying cancer.” This was without any diagnostics. I was supposed to be leaving the next day to go to a young family members funeral and explained I needed to treat the diarrhea and financially needed to take this one step at a time and could not afford x rays and would only be open for bloodwork and fluids prior to leaving as long as we got antibiotics. She refused to treat and said she was doing what was best for my dog lily. Cut to me going elsewhere, getting Lily antibiotics, within one hour her diarrhea stopped completely. She’s since gone through bloodwork, full exams, her gums are normal color she’s gained 5 lbs after the diarrhea incident and she’s normal without cancer. It is okay to mention that with golden’s we worry about cancer so to check in on that later, however it is grossly negligent to tell me “she felt sudden onset diarrhea was due to underlying cancer” without diagnostics. Proceed with caution before seeing Dr Rice. I am severely questioning this office as well. The last time I brought my husky in after running endocrine testing for possible cushings Dr. Korpics mentioned via phone while going over results that we needed to run more tests because her condition could be due to cancer. I ran animal and human lab diagnostic testing for almost a decade and work in healthcare. I then at that time asked that another vet follow up with me in their office who said in no way would we suspect cancer with my husky (that dr is no longer at this practice, surprise). It seems very evident that the doctors in this office are pushing billable procedures and clearly using cancer to do so which is unethical. Now maybe this was just for my pets and I was an anomaly however I will no longer be seeing this office. I love my pets too much to subject them to unnecessary poking and prodding due to whatever protocol they have in place to try and make more money.

Scheduling, check-in and check-out is easy, efficient and friendly. The staff are welcoming and treat us like family, not customers. The care team is knowledgeable, compassionate, and thorough. I never feel rushed or like we're being pressured to pay for unnecessary tests or services. On the occasions that I've left my pet in their care, he's returned to me in the timeframe we were promised and in tip-top condition. Its obvious that my pet has been treated like family in their care.

Dr Chris Spears was awesome to work with after my wonderful Finn was diagnosed with a nasty cancer. I loved her wholistic approach to fighting the cancer. He had a good year and a half of quality life after being given just six months to live! I highly recommend ‘Dr Chris!’

This team has taken such great care of our fur babies. They’ve gone above and beyond for us on many occasions. I truly trust them and wish we weren’t moving out of state we would keep going there forever.