Cat Doctor (Dr. Eigner) on North 22nd Street. She IS very anal (as someone else said), and expensive. She recommends lots of tests and treats you like you are a bad "parent" if you don't do them all. I stayed with her much too long because she is competent and available by phone almost all of the time.
Cat Vet of South Street (Dr. McKinstry). She is very nice as is her staff, but I'm not sure how knowledgeable she is. I didn't feel confident in her recommendations for my chronically sick cat. Her hours are also very limited.
O'Neal Animal Hospital (Dr. Littlejohn). I took my chronically sick cat to him when Dr. McKinstry wasn't available. He seems much more competent to me and I feel more comfortable with his advice. It's true that he handles the animals roughly, and I don't like the (often) barking dogs. I'm not surprised that he discovered the real problem with Anthony's cat (below) when other vets couldn't. I'm sticking with him.
Margie Politzer
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:18:59 EDT
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Subject: Re: [UC] Vet Recommendation
Our experiences with O'Neill and Dr. Littlejohn were VERY positive. In fact, one of our five cats, Cyrus had a problem that 3 other vets, including the South Street Vet and Bainbridge Animal Hospital couldn't diagnose or fix. They all said the problem was nerves and wanted to prescribe kitty-prozac.
Dr. Littlejohn somehow realized that Cyrus had a 3rd internally-hidden testicle that was the cause of the problems (he had been neutered but acted like he hadn't and he was sickly). He operated and Cyrus is now all better. Dr. Littlejohn treated Cyrus and us with kindness and he was firm with him when he had to give him shots or take blood. To be expected when your patient might bite you.
Anthony and Nick
