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Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clnc
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Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic is committed to providing high quality, compassionate veterinary care at affordable prices. We strive to work with you to keep your pets healthy and happy from puppy/kittenhood through their golden years., Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic in Centennial, Colorado, is a small animal clinic, offering wellness care, pet diagnostics, surgery, dentistry, and geriatric...
Words cannot appropriately describe my high recommendation and experience of Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic, Dr. Shannon and her entire staff.
I have used Dr. Shannon for 5 years and have never been treated more professionally with concern and caring for my cat and myself. Not only is her clinical work of top expertise, she has compassion and caring for animals like I’ve never witnessed before. Just stop by her office and visit. You will be met by an array of animals that people didn’t want, were ill or injured. Dr. Shannon rehabs them, adopting out the ones that are adoptable, the remainder are part of her clinic family. Amazing. It touches your heart just to walk in and see this amazing facility and staff.
My first encounter with Dr. Shannon was around 5 years ago and I had never met her -- I had a cat that was urinating blood shortly after my husband passed away and my regular vet would not see her that day. I called Dr. Shannon (having never been to her before) and she saw my cat immediately and scheduled surgery. My cat had four stones in her bladder. Now the story continues. My husband had just passed away and probate had not been completed – Dr. Shannon did the surgery and let me pay AFTER probate. My cat would not be alive today if it weren’t for that one act of heroic kindness. My cat just had another surgery last week from Dr. Shannon for 3 more stones in her bladder. She has her on prescription food and will be checking her every couple months to monitor the bladder and kidney. This cat is very “persnickety” about her food and Dr. Shannon has/is trying different ones in hopes of finding one that she likes and will eat. This will help prevent further stones. I must add, this cat is not cooperative in the “food” department and has a mind of her own. Yet Dr. Shannon patiently keeps trying.
If this story does not touch your heart and send you to Dr. Shannon at Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic I don’t know what will. They are a top notch facility in every way and I, for one, am so thankful I found them. Little did the vet that refused to see my cat know, he was doing me and my cat a big favor.
I have recommended her to owners with dogs and/or cats, to their overwhelming satisfaction and appreciation of everyone in the clinic.
You owe it to yourself and your pet to, at a minimum, visit this amazing facility – then you will know this is the right place for you and your animal family.
P Lee
Centennial
We took our golden retriever to them because he had a lump on his neck and mouth. Rather than carefully diagnosing the problem with X-rays and proper tests, they decided to go straight to surgery. During surgery they discovered that they could not remove the lump. THEN they decided to do X-rays and discovered he had other lumps and stage four cancer.
They are only out to make a profit or they are just that stupid.
My Husband and I took our 2 dogs in for bordetella shots and one dog needed an exam. We asked a few questions about the other dogs bladder and the doctor, not Dr. Shannon, suggested a urinary test. We asked how much and she said $28 dollars. We said OK. She said we should get blood on both dogs. We agreed to one of them and since the other had blood test a year ago, so we decided to have his taken next time. We asked how much and they said the blood was $60.00. When we check out they were billing us for blood work on both dogs, the bill was $36 for the urinary test + another fee for getting the sample , a partial exam fee added, the blood work was not just 60 dollars, but there was a draw fee and more. ($78) We felt like we were up front in asking how much everything was and then surprised with all the additional fees. We spoke to the office manager and told her we felt like we were being nickled and dimed. She hesitated at first to work with us but eventually she credited us what we were not advised of. A few days later we received a letter from Dr. Shannon, who was not even there that day, telling us that we changed our mind about the other dogs blood draw after they did it and that she could not believe we were complaining about the additional fees. She fired us as a client. My husband and I discussed that we owed it to her out of respect to go and speak to her in person. We were a little shocked she did not call us first and only sent the letter. Dr. Shannon was not even there that day and I felt I should go speak to her. I went in and asked to speak to her and was told no problem , I just needed to wait until she was done with her appointment. I said OK. I waited 30 min, she came out to look and another dogs teeth and then the office manager escorted me into the exam room. She wanted to know why I was there and I told her I wanted to talk to the doc about her letter. I would only take a couple minutes of her time. The manger said it would be just a min more. Then after she spoke to the doctor , the office manager came back and said the doctor felt she said everything she needed to in her letter and would not come speak to me. I went there out of respect to talk to her first before I posted my thoughts and after she knew I waited more than 35 minutes she didn't even have the courtesy to speak to me . She basically said F You, I do not care what you have to say. I do not mind fining another vet, but to know when you deal with people on a daily basis and you can not even give them (her clients) enough respect to hear them out, The whole thing left a very bitter taste. I will admit I left very angry, but I know if it had been anyone else they would have too.
How dismaying it is to see a vindictive review submitted during a time when someone is unmistakably in the throes of emotional stress and — as a result of that condition — not thinking coherently. It is sadly evident that the author of “AWFUL experience with euthanasia service” was lashing out spitefully in an attempt to discredit a warm, loving, compassionate veterinarian staff. This scathing review by Meghan (aka “nutmeg14” at Citysearch) — who took her cat for a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic — is clearly a diatribe that was written in an extremely emotional and agitated frame of mind; a mindset that can be aptly described as being fraught with prideful defensiveness. Based on my personal observations and interactions with the Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic, my view regarding the caliber of the medical professionals and office personnel at Cherry Knolls clinic is vastly and diametrically different from the disparaging picture painted by Meghan/nutmeg14.
My own experience with the staff at Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic has been nothing but extraordinarily positive. The clinic’s doctors and veterinary technicians are ardently devoted to providing the best and highest quality of care for the innocent and helpless creatures for whose well-being they are responsible — a level of care that goes above and beyond the scope of medical services to include emotional nurturance for the animals as well as a scrupulous commitment to striving for optimal quality of life for the animals. Dr. Shannon and her staff are deeply dedicated to the welfare of the animals that come into their care, and they go out of their way to rescue, save, and help a wide array of animals, frequently donating their services at no charge and spending exorbitant amounts of money out of their own pockets to nurse their patients back to health. The staff members at Cherry Knolls clinic are a tremendously beneficent team of altruistic advocates for the animal kingdom — a world comprised of a populace of creatures who have no voice of their own with which they can speak for themselves.
I can imagine all too well — and can empathize with — many aspects of the emotional turmoil that Meghan/nutmeg14 was (and undoubtedly still is) feeling. I say this speaking as someone who has faced the excruciating process of having to make the decision leading to euthanasia of a beloved pet, and then following through to the conclusion of that process. I have gone through the experience more than once, and it truly is a soul-crushing ordeal. Nonetheless, Meghan/nutmeg14’s vituperative upbraiding of Dr. Shannon and her team is utterly unjustified. From the content of Meghan/nutmeg14’s review, it is obvious that she had firmly made up her mind — prior to taking her cat to a veterinarian — that the only course of action she would accept was euthanasia, regardless of whatever evaluation the medical personnel might make. When the professional staff informed her that the cat was not suffering and could probably be treated and continue living a good quality of life, Meghan/nutmeg14 refused to accept the possibility, apparently because it was outside of her preconceived plan of action. She emphasized that she couldn’t afford any treatment for the cat, which is certainly understandable, particularly with the current economic hardship that so many of us are enduring. It’s not so understandable, though, that when presented with the option of letting someone else care for the cat rather than ending his life, she was outraged, apparently because of some sort of possessive attitude to the effect that if she couldn’t take care of the cat herself, she wasn’t willing to accept the idea of anyone else taking care of the cat.
The mentality behind this attitude reminds me of an appalling situation that occurred — and touched my life in a terribly poignant way — many years ago. A man (a friend of my father’s) had passed away. At the time of his death, this man had two dogs. Both dogs were still relatively young in age and they were in excellent health. Unfortunately, though, the terms of the man’s will stipulated that after he died, any dogs that he owned were to be “destroyed” — regardless of what might be the health status of the dogs at that time. His reason for this mandate was that he believed there was nobody who could take care of his dogs as well as he did, therefore, the dogs were to be “destroyed” (that was the exact term used in the deceased man’s will). Despite the anguish and protest of the deceased man’s family and friends — who loved the dogs and wanted to keep them alive and care for them — the court system ruled that the terms of the will had to be met as specified.
The attitude and mindset evident in the account relayed by Meghan/nutmeg14 in her ranting review is distressingly reminiscent of the attitude and mindset of the man whose two dogs were euthanized due to what seems to me as being a prideful possessiveness that is completely inappropriate — and detrimental — for the well-being of the pet(s). I apologize if this is offensive to anyone, but that is not a compassionate attitude, and it is not in the best interests of the animals! As such, it is an attitude that, in my opinion, is absolutely indefensible. The indignation blasting out of Meghan/nutmeg14’s review is not a sentiment expressed out of concern for what is best for her cat. Dr. Shannon and her staff were doing their jobs excellently as advocates for an animal who can’t voice its own wants and desires and preferences; a cat who is at the mercy of whatever human beings whose paths in life intersect with the cat’s path in life.
I admire Dr. Shannon and her staff for their collective integrity, and for standing by their principles and convictions. As Dr. Shannon said, not everyone will agree with her philosophy, but i commend her for sticking to her ethics. I like the thought that if she had been confronted with a situation such as the one in which my father’s friend had dictated that his dogs be killed for no other reason except that their owner had died, Dr. Shannon would not have felt comfortable about euthanizing the dogs and would have refused to end their lives prematurely. Sure enough, the people appointed to uphold the man’s “last will and testament” would simply have moved on and found another veterinarian to carry out that dreadfully unfair death sentence, but it’s heartening to know that Dr. Shannon would not have taken part in such a barbaric undertaking as killing those dogs under those hideous circumstances. I feel certain that if my family’s pets — or anyone else’s pets for that matter — could express an opinion about this, they would agree with me!
I consider Dr. Shannon and her team to be the best kind of caregivers for animals — caring, kind, loving, and compassionate people who look after the interests and welfare of the animals. I wish all veterinary clinics could be so wonderfully and superbly exemplary.
We would like to thank Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic and its staff for taking care of our pets through the years. They really went out of their way to take care of one of our dogs when everybody had given up on him. They not only really love the animals you bring in but they also show a lot of compassion for the owners.
Love Dr. Shannon! She is thorough in her exams and her care shines through her work!
Best vet clinic out there! They are amazing people doing amazing things for our furry friends! Much love and appreciation!!
The clinic hours are very convenient, the techs are always in a good mood, even if they have to clean up after a pet! Most of all, Dr. Shannon is the greatest! She treats your pet better than most pediatricians treat your human children.
Megan and her team were great they took GREAT care of our Bruiser and we are so thankful.
Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic is a Animal Hospital facility at 7300 S Colorado Blvd # 3 in Centennial, CO.
Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clnc is located at 7300 S Colorado Blvd # 3, Littleton, CO. This business specializes in Veterinarians, Pet Care Services and Veterinary Medicine.
Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic - Meghan Shannon DVM can be found at S Colorado Blvd 7300. The following is offered: Pet Sitting Services, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Emergency Services. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Jul 31, 2014. In Littleton there are 4 other Pet Sitting Services. An overview can be found here.
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Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic is committed to providing high quality, compassionate veterinary care at affordable prices. We strive to work with you to keep your pets healthy and happy from puppy/kittenhood through their golden years.
Cherry Knolls Veterinary Clinic in Centennial, Colorado, is a small animal clinic, offering wellness care, pet diagnostics, surgery, dentistry, and...
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