Complaint Review: California Veterinary Specialists

This place is a joke. My Yorkie poodle fell down the stairs and broke both of his front legs. When taking him here for treatment, they specifically told us that due to the way the bones broke, they could not set the bones (put them back together) and that he needed surgery that would cost between $5-10K! They splinted both legs leaving them broken and without setting an appointment, said we would have to wait for the surgeon that would be in three days from then. We could not wait around without a solid appt to be seen or for the surgery date to be set, so we had the xrays looked at by another surgeon who was able to make an appointment for the surgery 5 days from then. When the puppy was brought in for the surgery, the surgeon was in DISBELIEF that the bones were not set (put back together before being splinted) at all! They left the bones broken, sitting side to side, and they had calcified and started healing broken! The new surgeon said that the break was such a clean break that he was a PERFECT candidate for the bones to be reset and was outraged that they didn't do such a simple thing before splinting them. If the bones had been set before being splinted the way they SHOULD HAVE BEEN, my puppy might not have needed the surgery that the new surgeon was able to do for $4000. CVS obviously wanted that $10K surgery so bad, they splinted my poor puppy's leg without setting it because they knew that would secure the need for surgery. When I called them to ask why they didn't set the bones, they said they "stabilized the leg" with the splint. Any common sense vet would have known to set the broken legs before splinting. Don't take your pets to this incompetent, money-hungry, lying place.