Oak Forest Animal Clinic

This is a very difficult review for me to write, but I feel it's something I have to do at this time.

Tonight, after a serious illness, we said goodbye to our cat, Fourth Meal. (We fed her as a stray for almost a year before trapping and vetting her shortly before Thanksgiving; she's been in the house ever since.) Anyway, I won't detail all of her ailments but she was seriously ill and neurologically impaired with very, very, very slim-to-none recovery odds. She received all of her veterinary care from Oak Forest Animal Clinic--from November through today--and we always felt very confident in the level of care she received. We brought her in for the last time on Friday and it was apparent to Dr. Welbourne and all the staff that her condition was very, very grave (it all transpired rapidly--overnight, actually--she was perfectly fine on Thursday evening). Since Friday, we've received daily updates (sometimes more than daily as we've called multiple times in a given day) and I feel her care was very proactive; Dr. Welbourne was quick to suggest other medications to try when it was apparent the current meds produced no results. I never felt like he just "gave up" on her; he tried to treat her to the best of his ability to the very end. Today, I spoke with Dr. Welbourne on the phone for a good fifteen minutes and he leveled with me about her condition and the almost impossible odds of recovery. She was still crying in pain today (keep in mind she entered her hospitalization stay on Friday), so we knew what needed to be done. Dr. Welbourne was very careful not to push me in either direction (which I greatly appreciated), and my husband went to say goodbye to our beloved Fourth Meal this evening (I couldn't bring myself to go--too emotional). When he arrived at the office, he was shown into a room right away; the staff made it clear on the phone today that all we had to do was name the time and there would be no wait. And there was no wait. He was able to say goodbye to Fourthie (she didn't even recognize him), and the staff was very caring and considerate of his highly emotional state. While we are positively heartbroken over our loss, we feel the overall care she received was top notch. Terri, the office manager, is a true angel among angels; we felt very comfortable knowing that she was watching over our kitty and caring for her with the greatest level of compassion. Dr. Welbourne was fantastic as well, and overall...we feel she received great care up to and including the very end.

Very easy to schedule an appointment for our cat, who needed an ultrasound to identify the source of a problem. Dr. Ben was recommended by our regular vet.

His manner with both people and animals is friendly and calm. The ultrasound exam was extremely thorough. He reviewed everything in detail with excellent explanations and identified the source of the problem. He made some recommendations for follow up and was very helpful. Highly recommended.

Excellent veterinary clinic, advice, knowledge, and care. If you care about your furry family members, this is the place to take them. Just had my two new dogs spayed and neutered, both are healing nicely and the process went without a hitch. Only issue was that my boy wasn't a fan of finding out before the scheduled appointment that he only had 48 hours left to check his nuts. I told him, "hey buddy, you have 48 hours left." He kept the same expression for almost 5 minutes. 99% sure he completely understood me and was trying to process it. Thankfully both are healing up and healthy.

Wonderful clinic! Brilliant Veterinarians and staff! They've always been great with my cats!

Horrible bedside manner charge me for everything they possibly could. They gave my dog medicine after a procedure and he was throwing up because of it . When I brought him in to get the staples removed, I let them know he was throwing up. They charge me an office visit and $150 + for medicine he did not need and $100 for an exam !! Place has really gone downhill ever since the older doctor left the practice never again

Mocha Coconut was visiting IL for the first time from FL. Unfortunately, he had probably not been use to the weather change and the different environment that one of his eyes started to become infected, super watery, and difficult to open!

After watching his eyes, I decided it be best he get some medicine. Shihtzu eyes are susceptible to eye conditions especially with their shape.

We called the office and they were very nice and provided us with a convenient appointment. We were able to show them a few of his records since we brought it just in case. They also called his vet in Tampa to make sure his records reflected his immunization we had for him.

The vet was very nice and you can tell she loved animals. Mocha Coconut felt comfortable with her. She gave him medicine and we were all set. His eye infection got better!

I have been trying for years to get my pit to the vet. He is a great dog but has horrible anxiety when it comes to the vet and gets very aggressive. I have tried numerous vet offices with no luck. Oak Forest Animal Clinic came highly recommended for dogs with aggressive behavior at the vet. We brought our pup yesterday and while it was still a challenge, they were able to successfully give him all of his vaccinations and blood work. They were calm and handled it like true professionals. Due to COVID, we were not able to go into the exam room but they recommended that we walked him to the door with them and waited in the car. When the exam was over, they brought him back to our car so that he wasn't sitting in the room stressed while they called us to walk through the exam. They've definitely gained a new puppy patient. Thank you so much!

I feel like family here. I have been taking all of my pets here probably greater than 25 years. This is a family owned veterinary practice and my pets receive great care here.
The vets are top notch and the staff is the best. I wouldn't trust my pets' health to anyone else!

June was her name repeat and repeat that they were on their third tile seeing her. I have annother puppy and the vet I see now told me she was not supposed to take oral flea meds under six months d my dogs are rid of fleas. The only examtney havd June was picking and searching for flea larvae. The month she took that edible flea stuff she took she developed a cough she would not eat. And they were hiding things from us and dodging your whole family calls they said rhwy would do blood work. They did not and we paid for her paw prints if it wasn't so awful and I talked to the ethics vet committee they never gave us our paws obviously she was just another dead puppy malpractice. and complete Inconsideration. They would not take my callGyer my baby they were treating was perfectly healthy int then she died in my armament. These awful people killed my Beautiful healthy puppy by negligence. and how did they miss her respirating distress. got to Markham it's in the area and the treatment is better tbsan oak oak forest animal hospital killed my puppy and I'm filing a suit when my grieving subsides. They never released her belongings because they were dodging me. They killed her and im no where near done goi g after them for answers and now since their arrogance and lies caused me pain and suffering. they sold us paw prints. WHERE ARE they. Im going to have this place shut down. They took her collar and stole money l from us and took advantage of our emotions after we watched her die. They never took blood and stole are money and never bothered with us.. now I'm going to spend every dime I have on letting her have a proper rest.I'm going after everyone of them. They know they negligent malpractice killed my baby. DO NOT got to these ignorant horrible liars. They k ow exactly who I am and they better be ready. June was my baby. Get ready to fight me on this.oak forest animal clinic stole lied and committed malpractice and killed our four month old. That was a few months back. I won't ever stop. I have not even been calm enough after what they did to us but when I feel less sad. I bug very soon I'm going to formally deal with. Liars and your messing with the wrong mother. Oak forest animal clinic. You killed my puppy and destroyed our lives. Now. I'm almost ready so you better be ready too
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I've been taking my pets there since 1979.
Unfortunately I'm on disability and although
I paid $250 May of 2017 for my 15 + year old Ozzie who is on his last legs close to death O.F. Animal Hospital won't refill an antibiotic for his recurring skin infection! They want me to carry my 50lb dog in and pay $50 for an exam before letting me have one more refill that would make him more comfortable in his final days!
I am taking them off my Facebook and when he
does pass I'll have him cremated at a different
facility! I'm Very Disappointed with this Animal Hospital and do Not Recommend!!!

Dr Ben is amazing vet run by a family business that's why I drive from Niles to go to Oak Forest and will continue to come he help my Chihuahua miniature pincher But all the diagnoses she had today 4/18/19