I love Clovis Vet! They're caring and polite and have a great facility!

I am so sorry for the previous poster's loss of their family members. It is heartwrenching to lose a member of your family.
I work at the Clovis Vet Hospital, and we have not seen a Chihuahua for a pin removal in the past few months. I am sure that we all would have remembered an emotionally trying case like that. There is a Clovis Pet Hospital just a few blocks up the street, and I wonder if perhaps that was where the dogs were taken.
Also, we ALWAYS offer xrays for lameness. If you can't afford them, it's fine, but we think they are important. Again, I am surprised that such a thing happened here.

My golden retriever that we adopted through a rescue was taken to them because he was beginning to limp. We weren't sure of his age and the doctor there suggested that we start him on arthritis treatments. They performed no tests, no x-rays, nothing! After a few months he wasn't getting any better and was actually starting to get worse. We needed to go out of town for a family vacation but wanted to board him at a vet office in case a complication arose. As soon as we got to our destination we received a call saying that he had a mass in his chest the size of a Basketball and A Half! We were stunned!!! How do you miss something so big?! It was literally pushing on his heart and other internal organs. We were then informed that his internal organs were shutting down and that we couldn't wait to put him down until we could be home with him that we needed to do it right then! Imagine our horror to hear that our beloved family member would pass away in the arms of strangers while we were thousands of miles away. Why would they not have ran more tests to make sure it was or wasn't arthritis? They probably would have found the tumor then if they had done an x- ray or some kind of tests. Maybe he still couldn't have been saved but maybe with chemo or radiation it would have bought us more time with him. Maybe he would have passed in the arms of his family instead of strangers who didn't go the extra mile for him. We did have him cremated so we could finally bring him back home where he belonged. I'm ashamed to say we continued to use them after that experience because although it was very painful we understood that people make mistakes. Continuing on with them was the worst mistake we could have ever made because we lost a healthy pet to them only a couple years after. Our chihuahua had a broken foot that required her to have surgical pins put in to help the bones heal straight. This procedure was done at another vet hospital in town with no problems. They told us that if she did well under the anesthesia that they would spay her as well and it went off without a hitch. They did tell us that eventually the pins may start to work their way out and would need to be removed if that happened. A few months later sure enough we noticed the pin close to the surface of her skin as it was working it's way out. The clinic that put them in couldn't get her in for over a week so we went back to Clovis Vet to have them remove it. We were told it was going to be a simple procedure and that it should be easily pulled out. We dropped her off that morning and a few hours later I get a call saying they had bad news. My daughters baby had a heart attack after they administered anesthesia and died on the table! Who knows how much or what they gave her but she was gone forever. It was literally like losing a baby in our family, she was just over a year old and in perfect health. She slept with my daughter every night. In fact, that was the only way we got our daughter to sleep in her own bed at night because her baby was so protective of her. I spoke to another vet after the fact and was told there was no reason to put her fully under that general anesthesia would have been the best option and all that was necessary.We had her cremated as well so we could bring her back home and reunite her with her family. I look at their urns everyday on a shelf in my living room and they are a constant reminder of our experience with Clovis Vet. I can't begin to express what we feel we have lost but I pray no one else has to ever go through the pain that our family has endured. Please, think twice about going to this clinic if you truly love your pet. I wouldn't even rate them one star but unfortunately you have to rate them or you can't share your experience at all, just an FYI.

I brought my dog in for a routine foxtail removal. they gave me an appropriate estimate and i left them to it. 2 hours later they called me claiming that it would cost an additional $300 (never mentioned as a possibility before I left my dog there). the reason for this, as I have come to know, is that they had sedated my dog improperly, tried idiotically to get up his nose when he was awake and now they needed to put him completely under because they weren't successful. of course they couldn't get their tools up his nose when he was awake! the next vet I took him to removed the foxtail within 10 minutes, easy as pie -BECAUSE MY DOG WAS PROPERLY SEDATED- and it didn't cost me anywhere near what Clovis Veterinary Hospital wanted to charge me. anyway, I had to pay Clovis Veterinary Hospital $118 to get my dog back after they had done nothing but intoxicate him. he was hardly able to stand when i took him home and he was miserably sick all night. I have since contacted them to contest the bill and they basically told me to screw off (great customer relations right?). so now i'm stuck with 2 vet bills instead of one because i made the mistake of taking my dog to Clovis Veterinary Hospital. don't make the same mistake yourself.

The staff at Clovis Veternary Hospital is top notch and very caring.