After being a client at Cat's Exclusive for 16 years, we were recently dismissed as clients because we complained about the horrendous treatment we got from a vet who looks like she has been out of veterinary school for about 10 minutes. We used to always see Richard Lester, but recently we brought our 1 year-old Abyssinian in for an ER visit. It happened to be Lester's day off. The cat was running a temperature and his breathing was rapid and shallow. We were shown into a room with a "Doctor" Fleigel who decided to do not diagnostic testing, even when we begged her to. She told us that "there is a nasty virus going around that is affecting indoor-only cats, and the reason your cat is breathing that way is because he is trying to cool himself down". LIAR! Cats do not do this. He couldn't breathe because he was dying of pneumonia and fluid was building up in his lungs. He needed to be on intravenous antibiotics, oxygen and needed a chest X-Ray. Because we had just gotten some new kitten
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