If I could give them 0 stars, I would. Noah's Ark Animal Clinics is the most unprofessional, dishonest, immoral and inhumane animal clinic I've ever come in contact with.
Here's my complete experience:
On April 15th, 2020, my cat, Coal, needed emergency surgery as he ate a bunch of plastic Easter grass a few days before and showing symptoms of an intestinal blockage (constant throwing up, loss of appetite, and no bowel movement for a few days). I made the decision to take him to Noah's Ark in Ft. Wright knowing they took walk-ins and my cat needed to be seen ASAP.
We arrived at our appointment at Noah's Ark and Dr. Travis Koopmans looked at Coal and took some X-Rays and determined that Coal needed surgery. From my understanding Dr. Koopmans did not perform the surgery, he just examined Coal. Dr. Kassandra Ernst was the one who performed the surgery and was also the surgeon that talked to me about how the surgery went when it was finished. Dr. Ernst performed a basic surgery on Coal on April 15th, 2020.
That same night Coal came back home with me. The next morning, April 16th, 2020, I noticed multiple stitches had come out and some were still in Coal, but very loose. I called Pet Wellness Group in Florence to see if Dr. Wilson could get Coal in to stitch his incision back up and fix the loose stitches. Pet Wellness Group was able to get me in right away. My dog has been going to Dr. Wilson since he was two months old so I knew I could trust them. Once Dr. Wilson took a look at the stitches on Coals incision she called me (I stayed outside in my car due to COVID-19) and informed me that the stitches on Coal's incision were meant for incisions on the inside of your body and not the outside and the stitches were not knotted right. Dr. Wilson had to put Coal back under with anesthesia and remove the stitches and staple Coal's incision. To correct the wrong stitches that Noah's Ark put in and knotted wrong, I had to pay $261.61 the next day after his surgery at Noah's Ark.
Coal was scheduled to get his staples out with Dr. Wilson at Pet Wellness Group on April 30th, 2020. We got to our appointment with Dr. Wilson on the 30th and once Dr. Wilson took a look at his incision she gave me a call. The incision on the outside was not healing right. Dr. Wilson took a few staples out and looked at the incision on his abdomen to find that Noah's Ark put stitches meant for the outside of your body on his incision on his abdomen. This would explain why the incision on the outside was not healing correctly. We scheduled surgery with Dr. Wilson at Pet Wellness Group the next day, May 1st, 2020 to fix this.
Once Dr. Wilson opened coal up during surgery she found multiple things that were done wrong by Dr. Ernst at Noah's Ark. To name some: Dr. Ernst put the wrong stitches on the inside and outside of Coal's body, Dr. Ernst did not close Coal's abdomen incision all the way, how things were sutured were completely wrong, wrong layers were closed, and there was a lot of dead tissue that Dr. Wilson had to remove due to the stitches. Dr. Wilson is willing to explain everything that she found during the surgery on May 1st, 2020, and provide records. The balance of the second surgery to fix Dr. Ernst's botched surgery is $541.02.
I paid Noah's Ark $1,131.30 for the basic surgery that Dr. Ernst performed and botched on my cat. Noah's Ark also gave me Cerenia for Coal and the box of the medicine said clearly on it "only for DOGS' Coal is a cat. It is very concerning to me that Dr. Ernst botched a basic surgery on Coal and worries me about her performing more surgeries and difficult ones in the future on other animals.
I have paid a total of $802.63 to fix the botches surgery that Dr. Ernst at Noah's Ark performed. I'm in the hole $1,933.93 altogether. I finally was able to get ahold of the front desk manager to try and resolve the issue. The front desk manager said she was going to talk to the medical examiner and I would either get a call back from her or the medical examiner for an update. A couple weeks have gone by and I have not heard back. read more