Chenango Animal Hospital

In 2015 I had a devastating house fire. The only thing that made it bearable was my 3 yr old kitty, Bailey survived. After several weeks I could tell something just wasn't right with him. The friend I was staying with highly recommended Chenango Animal Hospital. So away we went. The first vet I saw, Maureen, kept insisting there was nothing wrong with him, it was just the stress of the fire. I kept asking her, "but smell his breath, I've never smelled cat breath so bad." She said if he isn't feeling better in 10 days bring him back.

After watching my poor listless boy for 3 more days, I called for an appointment so he could be rechecked. The next vet I saw said to me right off the bat, didn't you smell his breath, how bad it is? I thought I was going to lose it. So the kept him for several days, did tests on him left and right. He had a pre-existing kidney disease, which they informed me he was born with and the stress of the house fire caused it to surface.

A day later, yet another vet called me to tell me his red blood count was horrendously low, he the cat needed a blood transfusion and I needed to take him the the Cornell Veterinary Hospital. He further stated they would be running more tests.

With an incredibly heavy heart, I told this vet enough is enough, stop poking and prodding my cat. I will figure out what I'm going to do and then I will be there to pick him up.

I got a 2nd opinion, he didn't have kidney disease, he was entering the end stages of feline leukemia. There really was nothing that could be done.

He was only 3 years old and the love of my life. He crossed over the rainbow Bridge that day while I held him.

Shame on you Chenango Animal Hospital.

These are friendly knowledgeable people, we have found them to be a great vet service, since Dr. Bellinger retired.

Worst vet experience ever! Don't bring your pet here! Our cat had been vomiting for 48 hours had showed no interest in food or water and was acting unlike himself. We are new to the binghamton area and haven't found a new vet yet so we called around and this was the only vet that could get us in that night- I wish I could give them less then one star the only good thing about the whole experience was the women at reception were pleasent. The vet- (her last name was GayLord) was absolutely horrible. She talked down to me and my husband the whole time. It didn't even seem to listen to the symptoms we discredit because she started talking about an unrelated condition that during the brief exam she deemed are cat didn't have- that didn't stop her from suggesting that we hospitalized our cat for the condition just in case he did. She didn't even ask if he could have gotten into anything or eaten any non-edible things (which is like a primary cause of vomiting cats) until running blood work and giving my poor kitty 3 shots. Ultimately we got no diagnosis (after 300+ dollars for things I have had done for my other cat a year ago for 1/2 the price at a different pice), no ideas or recommendations on how to improve his condition (except isolate him from the other cat and come back tomorrow. Our poor cat is still out of sorts and we are off to a different vet for answers. Save yourself stress and money go somewhere else

Don't go to this vet unless you have money because they won't care for your animal if you aren't a person with money took my dog there with a hurt let couldn't put pressure on it and because I couldn't pay for the X-ray's I was given pain pills and rushed out the door. They wouldn't even work out a payment arrangement to help the animal they were more worried about the money then weather the animal is in pain REALLY your suppose to be in this business to care for animals not send them home in pain to suffer because their owner is on a fixed income. Your suppose to be there to help the animals. BUT THIS PLACE IS NOT THERE TO HELP THE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't go by the star I wouldn't give then any but won't post without one.