I am writing to warn you all about Avenues Pet Clinic. We brought our pregnant pup in as she was having difficulties giving birth. They performed a C-Section and spayed her in the morning. After surgery they called stated all went well and to pick her up at 5 pm. My wife shows up and they bring out the puppies. My wife then waited for another 10 to 15 minutes for them to bring out Happy. They then brought my wife into a room with Happy and stated she was in shock, looked horrible. I'm guessing she wasn't monitored for the hours between surgery and pick up, they were surprised that she was in shock. My wife left and told them she would return at 7pm when they closed to figure out why Happy was in shock. When she arrived at 7pm she was given the options of leaving Happy at Avenues overnight, unsupervised, taking her home for constant supervision or taking her to a 24 hour clinic. My wife opted to take our dog home for supervision. In the 2 hours between 5 pm and 7 pm they stated they completed an ultrasound and found no internal bleeding (we don't believe this was actually done). They sent my wife home with our Happy, in distress. By the time they got home our dog wasn't moving, her gums were white and cold, and she was bleeding externally. My wife rushed to CSU Animal Hospital (highly recommended). They rushedto get her, and began working on her immediately. When my wife arrived at CSU Happy was completely limp and lifeless. After a bit, they came out letting us know she needed a blood transfusion, which we agreed to. They went back to helping our dog. After surgery was done, they let us know a few things. They found an 8 cm hematoma, the stitching was loose, ligatures were present but not tight. They also found green debris in the surgical site. My dogs condition was worsening at the clinic, which tells me that they didn't do a proper eval of her. If done, they would have called us and advised her condition and would have asked for consent for further surgery to figure it out. They didn't. If they did it could have prevented the trip to CSU. They didn't know a thing as they even said we could leave her there overnight unsupervised. If my wife selected this option our sweet girl would have passed by 10 pm. By Avenues releasing our girl it is evident the doctor did not have the proper knowledge and that they didn't know or didn't care about my dog's condition. The CSU vet said the ligatures could have been loose from movement, puppy feeding or sloppy surgery. We don't even know if the puppies were fed by Momma dog and seeing as how she was wobbly and lethargic when they brought her out at 5pm, I doubt her movement would have loosened them. During the follow up visit a vet told us it was most likely due to poor application of the ligatures. Then jat the 10 day check up we were told again that it was most likely that the vet had done a poor job on the ligatures and they have seen numerous poor outcomes from this clinic. Let's talk about the debris left in my dog. It was easy for the CSU vet to find and clean out the debris, why wasn't this done at Avenues? They will tell you it's all a risk of surgery and we did sign a disclosure. That is fine, but it's obvious with all that went wrong the surgery was botched and they didn't want to tell us. We called the vet clinic to discuss all that happened. The head vet denied any wrongdoing. Loose ligatures, debris and a huge amount of blood loss sound a bit more like poor, sloppy vet work to me. What bothers me even more is that she laughed when she hung up the phone, which tells me they really didn't care, had no compassion, empathy or any concern. I wonder if getting home to dinner that night was more important than my dog's life. In closing dog, appropriately named Happy needed 4 blood transfusions and 2 units of platelets and all ligatures cleaned up a tightened, as well as debris cleaned out of her wounds. You can make your own conclusions with the facts I presented. But I would warn you of visiting Avenues if you care about your pet. read more