Arvada Flats Veterinary Hospital

We have been taking our dogs to Arvada Flats for the last 20 years. Dr. Bassett's team is compassionate and skilled at what they do. They have supported my family through the good pet parent times as well as the bad. They do not recommend tests unless necessary. I would wholeheartedly recommend sending your pets there.
Mar 4th, 2024

I always like them. Never had a problem except for one billing issue but it wasn't a big deal. They usually take my dogs in on the same day as calling. It's a little more expensive than others, but it's worth it.
Feb 15th, 2024

Jan 22nd, 2024

This place is great the staff there are very nice , very helpful and professional they took great care of my cat, extra thanks to all the receptionist especially Alicia thank you for being so friendly welcoming, I definitely will be bringing my cat here in the future ! And I would recommend this place to anyone with a pet.
Dec 8th, 2023

Never made a review for my experiences at this place as I really like DR. Bender, huge respect for her but everything else is beyond acceptable. I wanna bring up 3 examples, which are the 3 examples why I was visiting this place, the last example happened today. I was only 4 times at this place. As a side information I am a breeder that breeds extra healthy dogs and I'm a homeopath as well treating my animals by myself due to straight bad experiences with vets either misdiagnosing , mistreating or both in order to keep making more money. Example 1: in 2021 I had a healthy litter of 12 pups. I deworm my dogs naturally and homeopathically and never had worms. For the litter, as usual I gave the vets a collective stool sample of 11 pups and one separate example from a pup that had diarrhea. The results were all negative, both for worms and unusual bacteria. When paying for the stool samples I was told to purchase dewormer for all pups and an antibiotic for the diarrhea puppy. I asked why since the samples were negative so why would you treat healthy dogs with dewormer and antibiotics if it clearly harms them? Example 2: My youngest offspring had an ear infection. Avada flats decided to treat the infection with antibiotics against my concerns. The infection got better for a couple of weeks and then came back way worse and when I went back to the vets they suggested to give more antibiotics which I denied and decided to treat my dog with homeopathics and healed him completely without the ear infection reoccurring. Example 3 and the reason why I will never come back and highly warn you get your pet treated here: A week ago one of my dogs broke his toe. when it happened I felt already the toe is broken but wanted to get an x-ray to be sure. The x-ray at avada flats showed that his toe was broken several times. The vet said there's no way around a large stint to keep the toe safe to grow back together healthy. I received my dog back with a stint all the way up his leg. Even though only his little toe was broken. I declared my concerns that I think that the stint might have a negative impact on the physique of my dog. I was assured that the stint is necessary and i was told to come back earlier than in a week if something doesn't feel right for the dog. 4 days after having the stint I noticed that my dog seemed to be all of a sudden in pain which he wasn't before. So I called the place to get the stint sooner changed than just after a week. they were not able to give me an earlier appointment not the day I called. Not the day after. I had to come back at the original appointment which was today. Another vet removed the stint and saw a major damage on my dog's dew claw now which was fine prior to stinting him. Now the dew claw was barely hanging on. It was bloody, it was stinking and highly infected. The treatment had caused an infection in the dew claw of my dog but instead of paying me money back they wanted to charge me more and of course give my dog again antibiotics. I denied and refused. This clinic has caused an infection injury in my dog by treating him the wrong way and now not being able to treat that way as they suggested with a stint which is now not possible anymore. Instead of saying sorry for harming my dog, they charged me even more money. This place is not helping you. It is harming your dog like most of the veterinarian clinics. It makes money by harming your dog so you can come back and pay even more money. They also suggested to amputate my dog's toe which is clearly insane when you imagine what an impact it has again on the dog's physique. When you take a toe off that is simply broken. Who amputates a broken toe from a human? I feel highly offended by this veterinary clinic by how stupid they think I am. I know more than them and I'm better off treating my animals completely by myself. Then going to this place, paying money and getting my dog back in worse condition than before. Avoid this place and all greedy vets in general. They are business and not out for your dogs health!
Apr 5th, 2024