Kensington Veterinary Hospital — Attraction in San Diego

Our 4 pets (2 cats and 2 dogs) all go to Kensington Vet (bonus: they give a discount to families with 4 or more pets) and we love the care they receive. We’ve been going to KV for approximately 3 years and don’t plan on switching anytime soon!

The vets we’ve received care from (Gossard, Mason, and Seitz) are wonderful. They all have an incredible general knowledge, each has a specialty that allows you to get the care you want (including acupuncture!), and they consult one another about the best care plans. The techs are all intelligent and incredibly caring about our pets. And the reception team deserves sainthood for how they handle everyone’s (including my own!) craziness, the volume of people they see, and how quickly they can get you in and out.

What I especially like is that their care isn’t limited to the actual appointment itself. They do follow-up calls and emails to see how your pets are doing, they are responsive over emails to help understand when a visit is needed or if something can be done at-home, they’re very communicative about upcoming appointments or when your wellness visits are due, and they even proactively coordinate with other vets and clinics to ensure your pet receives the best care outside of their own care.

While most of our visits to KV have been routine (thankfully), one of our cats was attacked by a dog recently, and we ended up making 26 visits to Kensington Vet between August and November (in addition to hospitalization at an emergency clinic). So to say that we know what the KV team is like is an understatement! And there honestly wasn’t a single time in all the 26 visits that we didn’t receive the same love and care that I’ve written about above. I cannot recommend this team highly enough. We’re forever...

I highly recommend Kensington Veterinary Hospital for your pets care.

Since my chocolate lab (Jake) was a puppy (2009) and for his entire life, the incredibly caring and competent veterinarians and staff at Kensington Vet have been overseeing his health and well being and did a truly wonderful job. He made it to 15 years old and with the good guidance of Kensington Vet, was a happy and healthy pup for all of those years.

Throughout his time there, he saw most every doctor at Kensington Vet including Dr. Gossard, Dr. Seitz, Dr. Unger, Dr. Valdez and Dr. Mason. They were all so kind, gave him lots of love and the best care you could ask for (even if that meant recommending that we see a specialist elsewhere).

For his last 5 years or so, he mostly saw Dr. Gossard as she also does the acupuncture treatments (which really helped with his arthritis). Her incredible kindness and caring bedside manner felt like Jake was as much her dog as he was ours. You can’t ask for more than that from your vet.

I also really appreciated the fact that over his lifetime they didn’t oversell or overprescribe for his care. They would always layout options and give us recommendations (mostly from a holistic perspective), which I really appreciated as other vets often overprescribe. Thankfully, Jake was rarely medicated until his last year or so when he needed it to manage pain.

Dr. Gossard and her entire staff are one of the big reasons why my pup lived a happy and healthy life to the ripe old age of 15 and I’m so grateful to them for that. I recommend Kensington Vet with my highest praise and when I’m ready for my next dog, they will definitely be my...

Last year, I took my senior kitty into see the vet due to her drinking a lot of water. She got her bloodwork done, and they said everything was fine. Some elevated kidney levels but that’s stress, and that she was really healthy and they couldn’t believe she was 16. I felt great!

I moved to Santee, so driving all the way to Kensington was just too far for my senior kitty. I went to a new vet. First thing thing the vet said after they introduced themselves,“I see her last vet visit had she had beginning stages of kidney disease, and high glucose. I’m a little worried that she wasn’t rechecked 90 days after.”

Kensington told me to recheck in a year. That she was healthy! That I didn’t need to worry. Fast forward 11 month later, and my cat is severely diabetic and with full kidney disease.

What’s frustrating is my concern and main reason I brought her into Kensington a year ago was that she was drinking a lot of water. So the signs say kidney issues, and I knew that. So why tell me all is fine? I was lead to feel like I was just being over protective.

If she now suffers at the end I will forever think about how much I dislike this vet.

Please just be transparent about everything. If you aren’t 100% sure if it’s stress or something else, then just say to retest sooner rather than later. If the pet parent doesn’t do that, that’s on them, but give us the choice. My girl was doing the pain shots and was at your office monthly for 6 months. She could have gotten...