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Advanced Veterinary Care Center
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Mon-Sun. 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
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6 reviews for Advanced Veterinary Care Center
Miss Maizie, my faithful feline companion over the past 11.8 years was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in the summer of 2005. Dr Zimmerman has taken care of her over these years as if she was her own kitty and Maizie knows it.
The day she fell ill, her regular vet of the previous 9 years wouldn't make space to see her. They said to go to the "emergency vet" which wouldn't open for another couple of hours. The local vet I finally got her in to said she wouldn't have survived those few hours without immediate intervention. Needless to say, she hasn't been to her old vet (nor have my other cats) ever since. (cough...cough...VCA Mission in Alhambra).
If not for Advanced Veterinary Care Center, Maizie would not have survived that week, much less the past, almost, 3 years. All the cardiologists call her the "miracle cat," because she's done so well. Well, until the past couple months. But even the best medicine can't fight fate and nature forever.
It doesn't come cheap...keeping Maizie healthy has cost my past three years of vacations and a good part of my savings, but who can put a price on unwaivering love and companionship? Plus, when I adopted her, I vowed to take care of her the best I could. AVCC has facilitated that.
Dr. Zimmerman really is the best. I wish every veterinarian could take a lesson from her in compassion and kindness. I hope I never have to take another pet to her, but if I do, I know they'll be in the best hands possible.
Very happy with the doctor even though its expensive as hell, the doctors here are all gorgeous btw , my dog loves blondes because i have blonde hair and so he was in puppy heaven, but thank God he didn't actually go to Heaven, he is happy and healthy today and i am very thankful for this clinic and the doctors here are really great
my dog ate some poison and i had to transfer him out of another 24 hour shoddy clinic that i did not trust. The doctor at this clinic was a sweetheart with calling me with updates on his health and what really touched my heart and left an impression was how she ...
We took our sick 9 month old puppy here for urgent care after we noticed him depressed and withdrawn n throwing up. It turned out that he had a stomach virus. They took him in and right away the Vet was telling my husband that it would be $5000.00 for 7 days to treat his rare stomach virus. Our normal vet was closed so we had no choice at this time. We ended up paying $1500.00 for 3 days of treatment. They told us it would be $700.00 for each additional day and he needed 5 more days of treatment. We took our puppy out of this hospital after 3 days. We took our puppy back to our local Vet. he finished our puppy's treatment for 5 days we paid $1,000.00 we got our puppy back feeling almost 100% they bathed him and didn't bill us for it that is what I call service and care.
My advice for Advanced Veterinary Care stay away they are only interested in making money!! We will never go back there again.
This, my dear friends, is what a veterinary clinic should be. Trouble is, they handle advanced medicine, so you can't really just come here for your bordetella booster (well, your dog's, but you know what I mean).
However, if you have a seriously sick animal (for which you have my sympathy), this is the place to come.
I took El Perro here when another vet had told me his heart was so enlarged he'd live a week. Dr. Zimmerman diagnosed a collapsed trachea and minor heart disease and back went my puppy into the yard to play to his (reasonably healthy) heart's content.
Then we ran into serious trouble. Poor El Perro had been given a diagnosis of a mass in the spleen and had unexplainable bleeding. I called AVC right away looking for a surgeon/internal medicine specialist (Dr. Z is cardiac only). Dr. Fischer called me back RIGHT AWAY, left me several messages when he missed me, and left his cell. I'm impressed when my HUMAN doctors do that!
Again to make a long, sad doggie tale short, Dr. Fischer did an amazing surgery on my poor little guy, unfortunately confirming his first opinion of what was wrong with El P- intestinal cancer. Now, it's awful to hear that the puppy you've loved (ok, not such a puppy any more) for seven years is in big trouble. And Dr. F didn't sugarcoat the news. But it was delivered with such caring and my PET was treated with such caring, that I could not have asked for a better vet to have handled it.
This place was perfect in every way. Read my other reviews and you will see I am PICKY about vets. Most are crap. So, I read and study everything, because I don't trust them. Therefore, I know when I hit gold. Dr. Zimmerman is gold. She and the whole staff were very kind and gracious when we arrived 1 1/2 hrs. late (we called, it was traffic). They took my baby Tootsie, to another room for her checkup. Why? After ten min's. or so I freaked. I wondered around, opening doors saying "where's Tootsie?". Finally, I went to the receptionist and said "I need Tootsie back, have them bring her to me now". I'm sure they thought I was a mental case, but were very nice about it (I had a vet abuse one of my dogs in the back room and he's never been the same since). Then Dr. Zimmerman did her echocardiogram. She was amazing, calm, very thorough, highly trained and intelligent -and just likeable in every way. I could tell that the staff there really cares about animals. I never felt rushed or "passed off". Even though we were making her late for a dinner engagement, she calmly and thoroughly explained everything about the heart (and Tootsie's in particular). I have been to vets from CA to OH. I've done dog rescue and been to MANY (20?) vets. I had a list of TWO vets I trust implicitly. I am happy to say there are now three.
If I could give this place 10 stars I would. My husband and I truly believe that the Advanced Veterinary Care Center saved our dog's life. Our 1-year old (at the time) Italian Greyhound, Miles, became extremely ill after we boarded him at a kennel for three days. He stopped eating completely, was very lethagic and could not stop vomiting. Our vet at the time (no longer our vet) had no idea what was wrong with Miles and tried every test in the book to try and determine the source of his illness, charging us up the wazoo for test after test, even though they were all coming up negative...We left Miles at the vet for two days and he just kept getting sicker and sicker. We would check on him and he was getting thinner and thinner and sicker and sicker. The vet basically told us they had no idea what was wrong and that we should not expect him to come home with us...she basically told us Miles was going to die. Well, we wouldn't have it. We demanded a specialist referral and taa daaa, enter Advanced Veterinary Care Center. We busted our little guy out of that hellhole and drove him down like bats outta hell, IV and all. I am not kidding, as soon as we walked into the sparkling clean wait room, Miles started to perk up a bit. The receptionists were as nice and professional as can be and Dr. Kobiyashi was AMAZING. She examined Miles, made a preliminary diagnosis and threw in an extra test just to make sure she was right. SHE DID NOT CHARGE US FOR THE EXTRA TEST (the other vet wanted to charge us $300 for it) because she thought the test was necessary to confirm her diagnosis. The wonderful assistants took us back to the area where they kept the animals and I swear it was cleaner than my house. They gave Miles his own little area with a cat bed and hot water bottles and within two days, he came home. I HEART THIS PLACE. If you have a sick animal, tell your vet to refer you to AVCC. Your animals will love you for it.
