Animal House Veterinary Hospital — Local services in Alaska

Horrible experience checking in, waiting for Dr. Dee to enter room and leave room several times while I simply waited for her to enter room and leave again at check out of 4 pm and found location at 2:45 pm for 2:20 pm appointment. Buyer BEWARE! Go elsewhere unless You do not mind $240 per hour plus a $85 comprehensive. RUNNNNNNNNNN DO NOT WALK AWAY FROM THIS ARGUMENTIVE, ANGRY, FRUSTRATED LADY. I did not read the reviews before this dreadful absoulety uncomfortable confrontation. I had to smudge Myself after We left! Bad negativity! See invoice. The $240 office visit per hour I was left unattended by Dr. Dee several times sans explanation as to her absence would have been justified had Dr. Dee did lab work, bloodwork, a Wood lamp, a fungal DTM culture, an ear swab, PCR test, or a skin impression in addition to the brutal skin scrape at the area I applied topical flea treatment as She also has irritated ears. $240 for an office visit really!! I still don't know what my recently adopted city shelter animal has or why? Dr. Dee advised Me that she had another client that she had to send home because my visit took so long and that her staff wants to go home too so I suspect that the blood work that I didn't receive for My animal was charged by Dr. Dee to Me for the missed income from the client she sent home while I was abandoned multiple times from 2:45 pm to check out see attached fully paid $508. 29 invoice. Dr. Dee stated that testing may not show results because of ongoing prior treatment of My animal and that she did skin scrape. She had been seen by two other vets after Adoption with no known areas of concern. Half of the actual time in this visit charged per hour was about studies done on foods, shipping costs of said foods and recommended foods Dr Dee has for purchase. I never knew I was being charged $85 base rate on top of an exclusive mystery rate of $240 per hour for the time between time calculator which calcuted an actual time of one hour and 49 minutes from arrival to checkout. I felt used! Also a larger cat walked into the room and Dr Dee picked the older cat up after I looked at the cat and her in disbelief. I told Dr. Dee "Your words do not match Your behavior as no gloves or hand washing is taken place but You state My leas than several days ago adopted kitten who had also been spayed by Her shelter prior to Adoption was a concern. She replied after 25 years she is immune to....I never found out what My precious kitten had but I was charged by Dr. Dee for the appointment she said was rescheduled as she continued to exit the room with no explanation as to why She was MIA several times. I'm going to simply remain with My own trusted Family vets in the lower 48 with higher standards than thieves! They give estimates before they stab You with a $508 bill and up selling of dog...

I went here for several visits and had an OK experience until the last time. When I received a call saying my dog needed his rabies vaccination. I explained to the receptionist that money was an issue for me at the moment. She assured me I would only need to pay for a shot. IN AND OUT were her exact words. So I came in and waited in a lobby with loud construction going on 10 feet away making my dog (A very small pug that was rescued with mange from a puppy mill ) very uncomfortable and skittish. No one entered or exited the rooms and I still had a half an hour wait despite being on time. When I was finally helped I was taken into the room I set my dog on the table. The Vet Tech looked at the chart grabbed my dog hard enough to make him yelp and then held him firmly in place while he gave him his shot. Then said we were done after less than 5 minutes. He never told me any of the side effects that I later found out about, some first hand. And the clencher was when I went to pay and she said $87. Three times what she assured me on the phone. I was being charged for the shot as well as a checkup visit and a lab charge of some kind, none of which was I told about over the phone. Remember this visit was 5 minutes long. And when I tried to explain she said that I was talking to a different girl and this was the price, period. I asked to speak to the ACTUAL vet which I had yet to see and she said she was busy and she would call me. I never received a call. I called and tried to leave a message to call me. Still nothing. That was 6 months ago now and I am writing this because my dog has an infected nipple and needs to be seen but I go to Mt McKinley Animal Hospital now. The prices are better and the care is so far beyond what I have experienced anywhere else and I felt the need to write this review. If I could give 0 stars I would. Oh and the actual Vet when I did meet her for the first visit, as well as my first visit with my other dog...spent half of both of those visit preaching how she had done studies on the special treats she sells and has demonstrations of how the treats remove plaque by screwing a painted screw into the treat and it removes the paint...It felt like I was paying to sit threw a infomercial while the poor, abused , recovering from mange, little pug me and my girlfriend had just gotten sat shaking on the table... so there you go that's...

I love your show!

FYI: about your dog and getting dizzy. This may be way out there but I'm just suggesting.

I was diagnose with labrythitis, I have at least 2-3 times in the past 20 years become suddenly dizzy when moving my head from one position (especially from laying to sitting or vise versa) or just turning over in bed. Back in the early 90's I had a slight case of this and was told it was something that happens with age. It gradually disappeared over time. Then it reappeared out of the blue about 4 years ago. I had fallen flat of my back, on a wagon that we were roasting a pig on. A board broke and boom I went down hard. Well, nothing seemed wrong at the time. That night I went to bed. I was visiting my cousin and sleeping in a soft bed where my head was really lower than my body. I woke up to extreme dizzy spells, even ended up going to an ER. I was okay as long as my head position did not move from upright to laying. Either way the whole world started spinning.

When I drive home from Muchigan to Indy I ended up going to the local ER and was diagnosed with Labrythitis. I was told to stay in bed a week...I could not do that.

Long story short; I did research online about this condition and found that it was suspicion red that calcium deposits in the inner ear become dislodged and start floating free in the inner ear. Then found a procedure called the Epley Manuver. It involves rotations your head through a series of turns (basically a somersault) of your head. What it is meant to do is move those particles through the eustation (I spelled that wrong) tubes back they came from. I decided to try this in my own, exactly as the video showed. I did this in a few minutes, 3 times.

Trust me, after the first time, being very dizzy each move, the second time through I was only slightly dizzy. The 3rd time J never got dizzy at all! It actually worked!

My Dr appointment was a few days after Ibdud this. When au went in and told the Hear nose throat Dr what au did and it worked, he told me it was exactly what he was going to do!

I found out that procedure was not really known back in the late to early 90's.

Now, back to your dog. I wonder if there could be any similarity to this from human standpoint...