I brought my pooch in for a chronic dry cough and shortness of breath. My vet was closed and he seemed to be having too much trouble breathing for me to ignore it and put it off until morning to see my regular vet.Dr. Tswugawa was extremely pushy about tests and xrays and quilted me into believing that it was a life or death situation. And that they could not treat his life threatening problem without xrays and tests. They estimated my costs (just testing, NO treatment) at 900.00 to 1100.00 $. I maxed all my credit cards, and applied for their credit to do all of these tests. I left a deposit of 700.00$ and left him for a few hours. When I went back to pick him up, I accumulated another 500.00 $ in additional costs and he still had not received ANY treatment. For a life or death situation, why was he not treated with anything. Its appalling that vets like this raise their prices so much that it cripples the average pet owner to treat their animal. Shame, shame, shame on them! They told
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