Scio Animal Clinic

We had a cow give birth and then have issues post partum. She was unable to stand so we called Dr. Dietrich. He came out in the morning and administered electrolytes IV, told us she had milk fever and that we needed to try getting her up. He never completed a physical exam or even took her temperature. After trying all day, and rotating this 1000 lb cow every few hours, she was still not up by the evening. We called him back to give an update and ask for advice. He told us there was nothing else he could do.

At 6:00 that evening we were desperate for help and called a second vet. We had used this clinic once, over a year ago, for one of our dogs. This vet did not hesitate and came out within an hour. Took her temp, listened to her lungs, checked her uterus (the usual exam things). Unfortunately, he was also at a loss as to why she was not standing. He still went the extra mile to help and took my husband back to his hospital to loan us a lift to assist with getting the cow on her feet. Unfortunately she had been down too long and it turned out poorly in the end, but I wish we had called the second vet first as she may have had more of a chance if we had been able to use that lift from the beginning. If the first doctor had bothered to tell us that there was such a contraption that we could purchase, we would have been more than happy to. She may have been a cow, and not a family pet, but she was a living creature, suffering and needing assistance. His lack of compassion or willingness to help was not OK. We will not be using this clinic for any of our animal care needs in the future as I do not want to chance that same type of care on one of our family pets.

We brought our puppy in for standard neutering and when we came back to pick him up in the afternoon, he had massive swelling in his belly and testicle area. They were going to discharge our dog without taking a second look at this. Dr. Cole had already left the office with no mention of anything possibly going wrong during surgery. We had to draw attention to the swelling, his belly was purple from internal bleeding, turns out he had a blood clot. Dr. Cole came back and had to do an emergency surgery. We never got a follow up call. They helped us bring the dog back to car after 15 minutes post surgery still under anesthetics. Our dog had to spend the following day at our local bet to be monitored. We had to get additional antibiotics and sedatives neither did she recommend of prescribe.