Our experiences with Dr.Goodman have been far from good. A couple years back, we took our rat, Cricket, out to her to be checked over. She prescribed us expensive medications for a rat that seemed healthy, citing some sort of infection rats carry between themselves, then sent us home. We were expected to give him syringes of medicine multiple times a day. We couldn't get the medications into him, and he's still alive today, past the average lifespan of a rat, and in pretty good shape. He's never once been ill.
Our most recent experience was with our beloved Cockatiel, Sunshine, who is now deceased in her care. We were told that vinegar, diluted with water, was safe to give our Parrots as an immune system boost (not by Dr.Goodman; by someone who does so with no problems). Our larger parrots, a Umbrella Cockatoo and Yellow-Shoulder Amazon, had no problems, and both recieved a larger amount than Sunshine. The next day, we had Sunshine promptly to the vet, due to not eating and a red nose. She took him, and for five days, we didn't hear much, besides her treatment methods. She diagnosed it as a burned throat, because he inhaled as he was given the vinegar-water. Then she invited us to come see him, and when we did, he looked worse then before, and had a horribly stuffy nose with crust built up over it. She was encouraging him to eat on his own, and had us bring out his usual diet. The next day, he seemed perkier, however, the exact same build up was still on his nose, clearly never cleaned off, and he still couldn't breath through it. She told us we could take him home that day, or let her have him over night and get a syringe feeding in him again. We left him there, and received a call today he'd got a seed most likely lodged in his trachea, and she had put him in a nebulizer to try to save him. Shortly after, we received a call that she lost him. I snapped on her, and she said it wasn't her fault, despite the bird being in her care for almost a week. This all amounted to probably about a $900 vet bill for a $100 bird, however, worse then that is the loss of our baby. We were willing to pay any vet bill to have him saved, however, she failed us. If your nosed is stuffed up bad, it's hard to eat and breath, so why was he expected to eat seeds, and why was she ready to send him home in his shape? We loved Sunnybee with all our heart, and he was an unbelievably sweet and personality-packed little guy. It's a great loss to our family, and we're appalled the vet wasn't able to care for him well enough to even clean his blocked little nostrils.
We'll be looking for another avian vet for our other two babies. read more