If you love your pet, Find another vet immediately!
I brought my beloved 7 year old Belgian Shepherd in as kept rubbing one side of her head. It was obviously really bothering her. She’d rub and push the side of her head into anything...me, the floor, a wall, my other dog. Without hesitation Dr. James Young (owner) told it was allergies. Over the next couple months, I brought her in again a few times as it seemed Chloe’s frustration with her head was growing. Again, it was dismissed with ‘allergies’. Then I started noticing a bumb on the side of her head which was actually her skull! When I brought her in this time and showed him, he said it was muscle atrophy and that ‘it can happen’. It can happen?! From what? Allergies? I asked him what if it was a brain tumour. I’ll never forget his reply... “nooooo, she’s too young for a brain tumour”.
I didn’t buy that and insisted on an MRI and a specialist. It turned that Chloe did indeed have a brain tumour (was inoperable). Her neurologist at the VEC, was AMAZING as was the oncologist at The University of Guelph cancer care centre. I took her everyday, Monday-Friday for a month to have radiation. It was a very long and emotionally draining process, but the result was that Chloe and and I had three more healthy years together. Through the whole thing, Dr. young never once reached out to me to say sorry or to see how I or Chloe was doing. We’ll never know if Chloe had been diagnosed sooner, if she could have had more time. Although she definitely would have been happier without having to rub her head all the time.
Of course, I never went back to Boardwalk.