Animal Emergency Clinic of San Diego

What started as a freak accident turned into a long expensive and high risk journey for my cat because they put a bandage on too tight. I brought my cat in because she had degloved the very tip of her tail. The doctor examined her, said everything looked good and perform surgery to amputate the tail of that evening. When I picked her up the next morning, a bandage was wrapped around the surgery site and about three inches up her tail. I was instructed to have the bandage removed in two days. When the bandage came off, it was obvious her tail had been deprived of blood flow and was turning black. When I notified the hospital, they told me I could bring her in and they would amputate again which I was not comfortable doing. I took her to a different hospital who said her tail would likely

Rip to my amazing foxy woxy ginger baby bisher ! We are all so heart broken. But she was beyond help and I would never want her to suffer. We all got to go kiss her goodbye and be there at the end. She went fast and peaceful. The employees at the emergency vet office were so fast into action when we brought her in and very very caring. Bill was higher than I thought but it is what it is. Thanks to foxy for her 13 years of love and happiness 😊 ❤ 💕 they put this necklace on her for us to take and prepared her arrangements. When filling out forms for her urn I asked what it should say, my 16 year old son immediately said "ginger baby" I lost it. Again the staff was great

It's taken me 3 months to write this review, but I feel it's important that others know about our experience. We've taken our animals to this hospital in previous years and have been very satisfied with the services-- but it feels like things have drastically changed. Recently our senior dog was having difficulty breathing, and we took him in right away to this hospital. After a myriad of xrays, bloodwork, and other diagnostics (and $7K), we really were given no answers. We felt like the vet was just stringing us along, offering a ray of hope when clearly there wasn't one. Looking back, it seems like he most likely realized our boy was in bad shape, and not going to recover...but somehow we were convinced to leave him there for 3 days, racking up an enormous bill, and putting our poor dog

The front desk staff was really helpful and communicative, and we came on a busy night, but I waited over 4 hours for them to tell me the cat I brought in was just in pain. It was 10:30 at night and very cold outside and I told them multiple times my dog was in the car and that I couldn’t make decisions for the long term care of the cat. They still brought me an estimate for more services than I agreed to and tried to convince me to add services, and added another 30+ minutes onto my visit to fix the estimate and do what I asked.

Overdue review of this place. They took phenomenal care of our little bichon when she was sick. The vet and technicians were quick despite us bringing her in very late at night and were able to diagnose pancreatitis, provide a treatment regimen, and keep us continuously in the loop with meaningful updates. The vets, in particular, took great care in making sure we understood everything; all of our options for care, and that we had all of our questions answered. Definitely recommended!