Having been an employee at highlands I'll tell you that you must keep in mind that not all "assistants" are cut out to be animal care givers. The good assistants realise their calling and go off to college to become vets or registered vet techs, while the staff that are don't do their jobs well are fired. That is the reason why you find so much worker turn over at highlands. Keep in mind that the bad reviews that "old employees" give is usually the response of one that wasn't giving the best care to your animal and was fired due the inability to work at the hospital's standards of animal care. As for Dr Jutras, he is one of the best Vet's I've ever met and I trust him with my animals to the utmost. He is also one of the best animal surgeons in Indian River County. The best advice I can give you about Highlands animal hospital is to ask for a tour of their kennels and see for yourself that Highlands really does put the animals first!P.S. Dr Sigman, Frankenburger, and Donaldson are just
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