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    Knife River Veterinary Clinic

    5.0 (1 review)
    Closed 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Pet physical or wellness exam

    Pet vaccinations

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    10 years ago

    Very nice staff in a clean clinic. You can tell they love animals. Also very affordable. I brought my cat in and everything went very well.

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    Bismarck Animal Clinic & Hospital

    Bismarck Animal Clinic & Hospital

    (6 reviews)

    took my dog in and found out she was pregnant, the Veterinarian decided to give me a lecture on how…read moreit wasn't a good idea to breed my dog, without asking the circumstances around how it happened or why. Then they lost one baby during the c-section, and when an emergency happened with the 2nd baby, the baby died because their on-call decided it would be better to wait until morning, instead of staying at the office the extra hour to save it. They then told us we had to wait three months to have our dog spayed, then denied it when we called back and told us we had to wait another two months, despite us telling them she was going back into her cycle and that it needed to be done very soon. The reception staff are horrible, they showed no compassion during this entire situation. I would not ever take any of my animals here-ever again.

    This clinic does not allow animal owners in the exam room and after several visits, I realized it…read moreis a policy they use to cover up their own lack of veterinary knowledge and their own inability to handle any uncomfortable conversations. They do not disclose this policy when booking appointments, because that would be uncomfortable conversation number 1. Nor do they disclose it during check-in or even during the appointment when they grab your animals and take them in the back room. This is a practice that is not recommended under the Low Stress Handling standards. Certainly imposing it without disclosure is not recommended by any certifying authority, including the AVMA. During a series of medical appointments, the team had terrible communication and the DVM kept forgetting parts of the treatment process, or forgetting parts of an exam, in part because you are not talking to a vet until the appointment is over, and maybe you thought this was just some sort of a scheduling mistake. Then I saw the vet blame her mistakes on her tech and I started to worry that this was actually dangerous. When we politely requested to be present during a routine exam, still never having had their policy explained after several visits--the vet discontinued care in the midst of a chemotherapy treatment, disrupting continuity of care, a practice that is also not endorsed by the AVMA. Cutting their clients off suddenly when the slightest challenges arise seems to be their preference. We had one day to find a new vet in order to avoid a lapse in the treatment. They also refused to release the medical records so I could provide them to the new vet. The vet had to "sign off" on them, which included adding new information to the chart more than a month after the last appointment. More hiding of incompetency. Several other vets that I called trying to fit in a next day appointment mentioned that Bismarck Animal Hospital routinely delays releasing medical records when they are requested, which means they are "signing off" on everything. The cost was also 4 times the price of other vets in the region and they take a booking deposit that you loose if you have to cancel or reschedule. I am not sure why they have such a high rating. Is it because the waiting room looks clean and they have WiFi? Or maybe it is because the reviewers don't get to see what kind of care is actually taking place when they hand their animal over to be cared for in a mystery room with documents that are being altered long after care was completed.

    Knife River Veterinary Clinic - vet - Updated May 2026

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