Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Care varies wildly depending on who's treating your animal. Prices are extremely high and they often push for additional expensive tests even when they wouldn't help the animal. They offered no low-income options and had no problem wiping out my broke college student friend's bank account just for giving a pet an IV and monitoring it overnight. Sometimes they want to euthanize an animal that's easily save-able, probably so they can let their students use the body for practice. My other friend has a bird that hurt itself and took it here for treatment and they pushed so hard to euthanize. She took it elsewhere and that vet said it wasn't even life-threatening and treated it. The bird is still alive and doing well no thanks to this teaching hospital that wanted to kill it. If you have a rare exotic or an animal with a rare disease, beware! They will most likely try to convince you to put it down so they can experiment. Take your pet somewhere else and get a second opinion! Go elsewhere and use this as a last resort. Even if you get a decent doctor you will still be paying more than you should.
1 8 years ago (24-05-2018)

I see a lot of reviews on here complaining about the cost, but you get what you pay for here in my opinion. I took my bird up today for a medical emergency and they took him right away and he is having surgery first thing tomorrow. Thank God they are here because they are giving my bird the best chance to survive. Without them, he wouldn't even have that chance. Highly recommended for any animal.
5 8 years ago (08-05-2018)

Took my dog in. Vet recommend over 1k of testing because my dog might have cancer. Took her to regular vet the next day. Problem was very simple to find and treat. Cost: $80, not to mention the emotional cost...all the tears about losing our dog.
1 8 years ago (13-05-2018)

I would give them 5 stars but you will be here awhile (maybe even a couple hours longer then you need so minus one star) and their billing is a bit silly (minus half a star). However they are knowledgeable and open all the time. No matter what hour you come in the staff work their hardest to help your pet. Everyone has always been very nice and they do check up on your pet after.
4 9 years ago (21-02-2018)

Take notice of all the one star reviews and go elsewhere. We brought in a dog found outside to see if she was microchipped. After asking three different people their policy on scanning microchips, no one could answer us. They did not allow us to see their examination rooms either. The dog was taken from us without our consent and they came back out empty handed saying the dog was not chipped and they could not give the dog back to us. We explained that we wanted to take the dog back to the apartment complex where we found her to try to find the owner and if not, she could stay with us rather than a cramped kennel space. They would not allow it. They claimed they were required by law to take the dog and give her to the Humane Society though no such law is in existence. We were told the dog would be given to Larimer Humane Society and, if the owners not found, put up for adoption and possibly put down if not adopted. The system and this hospital specifically have failed this dog and the good people that try to do the right thing by animals. I would not believe that they have the best interests of any animal in mind.
1 8 years ago (11-03-2018)