Baker Veterinary Clinic

Time is of the essence when a creature is dying.

Posted by kfirouz on 10/5/2009

My pet goat was dying from a diagnosis of "pneumonia" and I don't feel that this veterinarian applied any effort toward a thorough treatment plan. He arrived at my home on Thursday around 2pm, listened to his breathing gave my goat a few shots, charged $150, then told me that I would have to drive to his office the next day for the rest of the antibiotics. I arrived at his office the following day around 11 am, he was gone to lunch. His office help had no knowledge of what medicines I needed, and Dr. Baker was not answering his phone, so I was told to try coming back in an hour. I went back in an hour to find that still there was no medicine for me to rush home to my dying animal. I had to leave to get my children from school. When I arrived at his office again for the 3rd time that day, he was sitting with his office help discussing a call that had come in earlier and that went on for five minutes before he ever acknowledged my presence. Finally, he got the medicine, which, was 1 gram of Naxcel, to be administered once a day and the prescribed dosage was 3cc. My goat can't stand, my goat wont eat or drink, he has scours, he may or may not have a fever we don't know because he didn't check, but he was still holding on to his desire to live. I would have done anything to save that goat, and I would have spent any amount of money to heal him. He didn't suggest anything else for my goat, and when I asked him whether or not he could give me something else in addition to the antibiotic that would help the goat to feel better-he gave me a few bottles of Amino Acids and a $65 bill. My goat had to be euthanized on Sunday (not by him). Having the medicine ready for me the next day would have been a step in the right direction to at least appearing concerned.