Skeldale Veterinary Centre

My experience of this vets has changed dramatically, I found some of the vets to be inexperienced at best, negligent at worst and I believe this led to my dogs illness being misdiagnosed. He had three visits so they had three opportunities to get it right!! Having paid them over £600 my dog was still suffering symptoms. I took the decision to get a second option and thank goodness we did. My dog has now been correctly diagnosed and treated (at a cost of less than £100) and thankfully he is on the mend. I wrote directly to Skeldale to give them an opportunity to explain and all they came back with was untrue comments and excuses, certainly no apology or offer to put anything right. They replied saying I had declined further investigations and this is not true as I took their 'professional advise' at all times. Also my dog had three examinations, three urine samples, a blood test and a scan and they still failed to find the problem. The fact is the additional tests have been proven to be unnecessary as my dog was diagnosed within a normal routine appointment with no need for samples, blood tests or scans. There is simply no excuse for this, it is appalling. Truthfully the money side of this is disappointing but the unforgivable part is the fact that my dog has had prolonged suffering of an illness which was easily and correctly diagnosed by another vet. Clearly I would not use this vets again, nor would I recommend them to anyone else.

Everybody is so friendly, professional and helpful. We feel confident that our pet is in the very best hands and we are surrounded by people who do their very best of her. Nothing ever seems too much trouble . . .

Our cat had a basic fungal skin infection and they tried to scare us into paying out £560 on skin biopsy, blood test, and an operation, they tried to scare us into thinking he had skin cancer at one point. Thank God for the option to have a second opinion. I do believe they have the animals best interests at heart but they are a business and those vets wages can't be cheap. But we took him to vets 4 pets and they sorted our cat out for £60 and he is healing up nicely. So people, don't be scared into giving in to their advice, always seek a second opinion, we did and it saved us £500.

My dogs didn't die after eating my sister's chocolate because they came here, so this is a great place in my opinion!

As every time I visit the practise, having only joined during lockdown I always leave feeling very informed and satisfied that they are doing the best for our boy!