Adelaide Animal Emergency

I took my cat to this facility. Unless it is in a most desperate situation I will not be going back. I paid $ 1200 for the vet to keep him there over night they thought it was gastro, but couldn’t rule anything out. They pushed me to pay a further $ 1100 on top of this for X-​rays and bloods. I decided to wait and go to my normal vet once I picked him up the next morning (which they said I would have to do anyways). When I picked him up they said they still had no idea what was wrong being emergency they didn’t have time to figure it out. I took him straight to my normal vet who said it was a throat infection within 5 minutes of me being there. Nothing to do with gastro and not necessary for X-​rays etc. This facility is nothing more than money driven and is preying on innocent people worried about their sick pets. Unprofessional, money scamming.

Not much to say except this is a life saving animal emergency service, even though it’ll cost ‘you’ an arm and a leg! It’ll certainly make you think how much do you really love that cat, dog, rabbit, mouse, whatever species it is (unfortunatley we don’t have a say for humans… some get fixed like it or not).
I’ve had several occassions over the years where pets have become ill or had an after hours accident (damn it). One of the most memorable ones almost made me broke… my huge, overgrown, lion of a german shepherd had been desexed and for the recovery period had a buster collar around his neck to prevent him from chewing the stitches. Yes you guessed it, bloody hopeless collar fractured and broke (note: always re-​inforce these damn things with strong tape, especially with big dogs as they bash them about trying to get it off), on a weekend, after hours, family vet not open so off to the AAE. The amount we paid at our vet was in three digits but at the AAE, it was a four digit amount, grrrrr!