Pennsauken Animal Hospital

I had the WORST experience and will NEVER go back to that place. Bunch of idiots. Anyways, I have a 1year old cat, and she broke her arm. So I take her to this place, and they bandage her up (which I could have done myself) and they tell me she needs surgery,(which they don’t even do surgeries there, wtf?!) she’s gonna have to stay overnight at the place that does surgeries and it’s going to cost me thousands. At thispoint I’m in tears, and while this emergency was so unexpected, I had little money. So their «associates» begin to talk about me in the back, and not only that, the receptionist kept questioning me if I had talked to the doctor about my no money situation… as if I had to… I flipped on her and said He ddnt talk to Me about it!!! They LITERALLY acted like this never happened before, made me feel like the poorest lowest person ever. When I got to the great place that I always go to now, they fixed my cat, they reassured me, and told me my baby was so young they didn’t wouldn’t even think of surgery. I WILL NEVER take my baby to pennsauken EVER AGAIN, that place needs to be shut down. Protect your animals everyone. Stay FAR away from that place.

Brought a sick cat in and then wanted to keep it overnight for observation. Next day dead cat and huge bill. They did nothing for the cat…

** NEVER GO THERE. TWICE THIS YEAR DR RIPPIE HARMED MY ANIMALS WITH VACCINES I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM NOT TO GIVE**
Last fall I brought a young kitten with Cerebellar Hypoplasia to this vet for an infection. He was stray and had a serious calicivirus. Being in rescue for years I know that a CH kitten with an infection at this young age should have been allowed to heal first. I specifically told Dr. Rippie — DO NOT VACCINATE HIM I WILL BRING HIM BACK NEXT WEEK — three times. The kitten was coughing, had discharge and inflammation throughout his resp system, and a high fever. Dr Rippie stepped out of the room and came back a few minutes later with a syringe and gave my kitten the FVRCP vaccine despite my clear and repeated instructions not to. My kittens fever skyrocketed that night and his motor skills went out the window. He laid in a bed unable to move for 2 days and I had to take him to another vet for treatment.
Recent a family emergency demanded that we board our puppy. She had already had the distemper, rabies, etc shots but needed a bordetella. I specified this and he gave her everything but. My puppy hallucinated and barked for a week straight. Google the neurological/​psychological effects of having a puppy over vaccinated and it will show aggression and mental instability as a side effect.
He’s not even the worst this place has to offer. Thinking perhaps DDr. Dubin, one of the doctors, might be okay, I took a cat there. He is a bit of a quack and all too happy to do surgery unneccesarily. I took a polydactyl cat there who had standard poldactylysm … one thumb on each hand, no real complicating factors… for a simple wound on her foot, far away from the thumb. The doctor said he would have to amputate the thumb to treat the wound. He also said he would amputate the extra digit from the other hand too, for no good reason. He said he always removes polydactyl thumbs. I took her for a second opinion and was told it was completely unneccessary and absolutely should not be done. After a round of CLAVAMOX, Noni is perfectly healthy and still has all her digits. This vet was very checked out, and talking in a dazed out voice the whole time he «examined» my pet. which consisted of looking at the paws and making little noises. He never listened to her heart, checked her other vitals or did anything else you should do with an infection. He didn’t even prescribe antibiotics, just pressured me to set up the surgery «in a week or so» … leaving ample time for unmedicated infection to travel to her blood.
The only person in this place who has a moment to spare or a friendly word is the receptionist. I don’t know her name but she is very nice, and I thank her for her compassion toward both of my cats.