Nehalem Animal Healing — Local services in Nehalem

Our 10 month old kitten was injured by a racoon just over a week ago. We found slight injuries over the weekend and brought him in first thing last Monday. We were told there was possible fractures in the tail and back leg. We waited for 2 hours before being told he was being kept for observation, and later that day we were told there was no sign of a break and to bring him home and watch him. He was given a steroid shot, antibiotic shot, and pain medicine. On Wednesday he puked or passed blood and a clot of tissue several inches long. The clinic was closed for surgery that day so we brought the kitten and the tissue clot in on Thursday morning. They looked him over and we were told internal injury was unlikely and to continue watching him. They sent us home with an IV bag and some medicine to sooth his gut. He got worse over the weekend and we were unable to get him to this clinic or any other. We brought him in at 9:20 this morning and waited over half an hour. After he was looked over we were quickly told that there was extensive internal trauma, and the prognosis with immediate emergency treatment was unlikely to save him. We decided the only humane thing to do was to let him go. He was gone at 10:53 this morning, and we got him home at 11:06 and began to bury him. Had the vet listened and done more for him on Monday or Thursday, we could have saved his life or at least saved him a week...

Several years ago, I took my cat in for a dental cleaning. That afternoon, I was told to pick him up at 5:15pm, so when I got there, everyone was gone except for one person. He was not the vet or a technician, so he couldn’t tell me anything about how the procedure went. When the guy brought out my cat in the cat carrier, my cat was still so drugged up, and completely wet from urinating on himself. I felt so horrified that what I thought was a professional clinic, couldn’t be responsible enough to have the doctor and/or technician remain in their clinic until all of their patients were released. Why didn’t they call me to show up earlier? What cowards!

Later I was looking at my cat’s teeth, happy to see how clean they were, and saw one tooth still covered with tartar! I called the clinic, and though they doubted what I was seeing was tartar, they let me come in the next day. Both the vet and technician came into the room to take a look, and after seeing it for himself, the vet said “my bad”. Well that’s a real professional reaction. They took my cat in the back and manually scraped off the tartar. I heard my poor cat yowl.

I will never take any of my pets there again, and will never recommend that place. I actually discourage people from going there. The savings isn’t worth the risk...

Dr. Matt is the only vet I will take my pets too! Our little “mini” midnight started seeing him when he was still at gozas office. He saved her life with salmon poisoning at 6 mos. Old! She’s still seeing him at 13! He saved her life once again last year, she had a huge cancerous tumor, I was afraid because it’s my daughters dog. She’s so attached to her, I couldn’t bring myself to put her down. My daughter graduated from college and moved back home, took mini to Dr. Matt. She called me at work in hysterics, there was nothing they could do, the tumor was huge! I told Dr. Matt to let mini decide if she was going to make it on the operating table or not. He didn’t give me much hope. He did the surgery and Brad even brought her home for us with instructions ❤️ the tumor was 6 pounds. A year later and she’s like a new pup with a few aches and pains! I started making her food and giving her all the holistic medicine he told us too. She’s still going strong, Dr. Matt saw her a yesterday for a bad back, at almost 14, what would you expect. He couldn’t even believe how well and snappy she is😁 with the old girls ibuprofen, she’s playing with our puppy, who Matt has also...