Purdue University Small Animal Hospital

I took my dog there to get FHO surgery done. Took him there on Thursday August 12th for xrays and blood work to make sure everything was ok before surgery on the 13th. Everything came back good so they kept him there overnight for surgery the next day. Had to put deposit down. I paid $1500 the bill was $483 for Thursday and the rest was a credit for surgery. Friday morning cane and doctor called and said he has a skin infection and surgery could not be performed that day. So I went and picked him up and when I checked him out I only had $14.83 in credit. They stole almost $1000 from me. I would never ever refer anyone to this place.
Sep 29th, 2021

The staff was amazing. We had to visit twice due to one emergency with our dog, and one with our cat. On both occasions the doctors and staff were so kind, caring and professional. We appreciate them all so much. We are so glad you were there for us in our time of need.
Sep 24th, 2021

Great place of you want to spend an entire 10 hour day on a 2 hour procedure. And it will NEVER fail when it's time for pick up you will wait another 2 hours.
Sep 18th, 2021

Sep 15th, 2021

Brought our young adult rescue shih tzu here in August of 2017 with the intention of him having surgery to correct an involuntary urine leaking problem. We went to Purdue based on recommendations from our local vet and a local vet specialty center (Chicago area). The first day at Purdue was spent doing testing and examination. At the end of that day it was concluded that surgery may not be able to correct the problem as we had originally anticipated. We made the decision to cancel the surgery and bring our dog home the following morning. ***We did not want to put him through surgery unless the doctors were confident his problem could be corrected.*** The following morning when we arrived to pick him up to drive back home, the specialist sat us down and convinced us that he COULD fix the problem even though the night before they were uncertain. I was in tears as I was unsure about all of this, but again, the doctor assured us the problem could be corrected via surgery. So we made the decision to leave our dog and drive back home. I cried the entire way home uncertain if we made the right decision or not but my mom told me to have faith in the doctors. Surgery was performed and the issue ended up not being able to be fully corrected after all. My fears realized. Our dog spent several days there recuperating. The poor thing now had a very large incision that had to heal. We began nursing him back to health at home and soon after he began regurgitating food right after he would eat. This started becoming a regular occurrence. A dog that had never thrown up before since we adopted him, now could not keep food down. We started adding water to his food while he was recovering (mind you this wasn't even kibble, it was that brand sold in refrigerators at the store) with some success of full digestion. We eventually introduced him back to his very high end kibble in hopes that he had recuperated enough and could go back to eating normally. Bad decision as he could not keep that down at all. He would begin gagging after eating and then regurgitate everything with a phlegmy substance. Since the surgery (total cost of $3648.86) we have spent thousands of dollars more on visits to our local vet trying to get to the bottom of why he regurgitates his food (he still does to this day almost 2 YEARS LATER). Our best guess is something happened to his esophagus during the surgery. He now is hand-fed incredibly expensive canned food three times a day to avoid regurgitation. If he happens to sneak kibble from our other dogs bowl, he regurgitates. Very dangerous as this could lead to aspiration pneumonia. To sum up, we had a terrible experience as his original leaking issue remains (he wears diapers 24/7) plus the new problem since surgery of regurgitating his food. I cry often for him as I can't imagine his quality of life is that great even though we try to give him the absolute best care possible. I do not recommend Purdue. UPDATE 9/18/2021: Luca passed away on January 24, 2021. He suffered from a string of health complications following his unsuccessful surgery at Purdue and we finally had to say goodbye to him. The biggest regret of my life was going through with that surgery.
Sep 16th, 2021