That article hits home so hard for me. I had taken my 13 year old cat to a VCA a few years ago for a check up and they told me he required removal of four of his teeth. They made it clear that it was very important that this be done ASAP and that we needed to go ahead with it, so we signed off and he had his teeth pulled later that week. What they failed to take into consideration, is that our cat had hypothyroidism which had been previously diagnosed by THEM.
We found out later that this can lead to complications as in some animals, because it can slow down healing, hair & nail growth, etc. Unfortunately, this was the case with our little guy and resulted in him not healing in time when his stitches dissolved, which led to an infection in his mouth, which then led to us needed to pay them again to put him under and 'clean-up' the incisions. That led to him declining and losing a bunch of weight due to not being able to eat. The infection never went away, and we ended up paying a different vet to euthanize him a month after his initial surgery. This vet told us that the original dental operation should have been done differently due our cat's hypothyroidism, as the risks should have been known to the VCA vet.
So yeah. #### VCA. Unless you have an excellent vet though them that you know and trust, do not take your animals there. And I am beyond disappointed that the Humane Society is involved in the story above.
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