Camden Pet Hospital: Hoge Jeremy DVM

Thank You Camden Pet Hospital for saving my Fuzzy Son Toby Cat. I can't express how much I appreciate Dr J. deciding to say that Toby is too young and before his major health issues too healthy for him to be put down. Tuesday, Jan 30 was the start of Toby's recovery and I owe my gratitude and thanks to Dr J and the staff at Camden Pet Hospital. When I woke up on that Tuesday I saw that Toby was even more sick than the prior days and I called Camden Pet Hospital to make an appointment for them to see him. I thought this was to end his life, that I would have to have him euthanized. I didn't think that CHP could save Toby for an amount of money that I could afford. To my wonderful surprise when I met Dr. J and told her the situation, fairly quickly she said that Toby is too young and healthy to be put down. She came up with a treatment plan that I could afford, around $650 that would basically follow what the other vet companies said they would do, treat Toby for 3 days, for a much higher cost, over $3000. The only difference was that I would take Toby home each day at 5 PM and then return him the next day for additional treatment to cure his urinary blockage. As with the prior 2 days, they continued with his treatments until I came at 5 PM Thursday to pick Toby up at the end of his care at CPH, and bring him home. Dr J. said that his urinary blockage had been cleared and the problem with his liver was fixed. All we could do now was to keep an eye on him. Try to get him to continue to eat and drink water. They gave me some special cat food, both dry and wet food for him to eat. This food was a urinary care type of cat food, Hills Urinary Care cat food. All during the time of his illness, I was praying to GOD to help save my Fuzzy Son Toby. I was so afraid I was going to lose him and it was very difficult to hold it together. I was a mess. That night Toby slept with me as he always does and I had the strong belief that he was going to eventually fully recover. From the time I brought Toby home from CHP, he slowly and steadily regained his health. Each day, his recovery progressed. He started eating his cat food and drinking water. It was not a lot at first, but each day he ate and drank more. Also, he started using his cat box. In fact, I set up a separate cat box, food and water dishes in my room as Dr J suggested. More major positive changes happened. He started walking around the house again. He wasn't just staying in my room. At the end of the first week back home, he wanted to go outside again. The things that really showed me that he was getting better is he started acting like my Fuzzy Son again. He was purring often again, playing with his sister Sophie cat, and looking at me like the old Toby Cat, full of LOVE and LIFE! It's now been about 1 1/2 months since the start of this journey and I'm so HAPPY to say that Toby has FULLY RECOVERED! Of course, none of this would have happened if not for Dr J at CPH. Her decision to help Toby, her treatment plan and the care that she and the CHP staff gave Toby is the major reason why he recovered and is healthy again. THANK YOU DR. J AND EVERYONE AT CAMDEN PET HOSPITAL FOR SAVING TOBY'S LIFE.

We have been taking our pets here since 1989. Dr. Hoge and his staff are great! Even saved the life if one of our dogs.

We love seeing Dr. Hoge and the friendly staff at Camden Pet Hospital! He is so gentle and loving with our dog - even when she's a little nervous or upset. We've been coming here for years and love it. I highly recommend Dr. Hoge! Wouldn't take our sweet pup anywhere else for care.

Great guys. Really saved my dog with good diagnose and treatment. Strongly recommend them. Price was not too steep.

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So far, so good. Would prefer they drop the no contact rule though. Would really like to actually talk to the vet face to face.

Brought three cats in for boosters and flea treatments- one needed deworming. EXORBITANT rates - 75 bucks each for deworming (abundance of caution for the other two - didn't realize it'd be $75 EACH. ) You can get deworming stuff on line for about 5 bucks. The extremely expensive Bravecto flea treatment was completely ineffective, so I was charged AGAIN for a new oral tablet 130 for 6 months x three so $400. So for basic feline shots rabies boosters for 2 and flea treatments almost 2000 dollars. So if this flea treatment doesn't work (are they expired or something) would they charge me for a THIRD treatment? Maybe they should give me effective meds? It seems they are keeping the lobby closed not for Covid protocol but so they can easily anonymously overcharge? The rates are just insanely high in my opinion. This type of stuff will send people online, to shot clinics, or elsewhere.

Sadly, will never return. We had a horrible experience and our dog had to be put down due to this pet hospital's poor care. My dog had a chronic cough and we ended up in a pet ER and given antibiotics. Cough went away-then it came back and the ER suggested we go to our current vet-Camden pet hospital. We did get an evaluation and they suggested more antibiotics and we dutifully gave my dog her medicine. After a few weeks the cough started again and we took her to Camden pet hospital again. They gave us cough medicine and said everything is fine. This happened for a few visits-then she started declining in health-wetting her bed and not wanting to go on walks so I took her for yet another appointment. The vet on staff said she is just having symptoms of old age and gave me medicine for her bladder-I asked about the cough and they said they will give us more cough medicine. I should have pushed harder as she has had a cough for 4 months and they keep giving us cough suppressant instead of identifying the problem, BUT I trusted them. 6 days after her last visit with Camden Pet hospital (and after their vet saying my dog is fine + spending a lot of $$ for an ultrasound and meds) we were in the pet ER again as her cough was so bad she could hardly breath- the ER vet was very concerned about her and took an x-ray + ran several tests: my dog had severe pneumonia, hear failure AND a tumor!!! It was so sad to see my dog in so much pain and the ER vet asked about her chronic cough and why did Camden pet hospital give her cough suppressants instead of taking an x-ray? Per the ER vet, if Camden pet hospital had taken an x-ray when my dogs coughing had started we may have been able to catch the pneumonia and treated it correctly. My dog was very old and I understand that we may not have had success, but her condition at the ER vet was so sad. My husband and I had to let my dog go and end her pain as the fluid in her lungs and heart failure was such a poor prognosis she would not be able to make it. This experience was extremely traumatic. I trusted Camden Pet Hospital, took my dog to multiple appointments, thought I was giving her the best care and she SUFFERED with a cough for 4 months. I still have not gotten a new dog out of fear that I will take her to a veterinarian that is not comprehensive and they too may suffer. I feel guilt that I did not get a second opinion as I trusted this office too much..I could go on and on but seriously have trust issues w/ veterinarians now.

Caution: THEY HURT MY CAT. Last yr my cat had some ear infections and they didn't tell me hearing loss was a potential side effect from the medication. My cat is nearly deaf now and meowing very loudly, so I brought him in to see if maybe something could help restore his hearing. They wanted to do blood work again ($400+) and then said everything was normal he's just old (yet suggested a further $600 heart ultrasound) and said they could rinse his ears for minor debris - I asked if this could harm his ear drum and they said absolutely not, so I said ok to clean his ears. For more than a week now my poor cat has been holding his ears low, shaking his head and can't bear to have his ears touched, only just now healing (I hope) 10 days later. Camden PH is still only allowing curb side so I couldn't hold my cat or speak to the vet in person - I think the quality of care has gone way down, you hand over your pet from the car and who knows what they're doing. I'm taking my cat elsewhere, really upset w the treatment my cat received.

Been taking my dogs here for about ten years. In that time, they have had yearly check ups, one has needed surgery, both have had their teeth cleaned, and I have made the occasional emergency call. I am very confident in care and advice provided by Dr Hoge. I believe he has the experience to know when to act and when to wait. In terms of the office staff, I have emailed them and they have always provided a timely response. Many pet owners talk about the price of teeth cleaning. I appreciate the detailed estimate I received. There were no surprises. In the early years, I was able to get same day appointments for the unexpected but like others have noted I find they need to refer to other facilities. I don't know whether this still the case, but they did seem to have new vets, come through over the years and I found them hit or miss. A hit might be the vet who came into meet the dogs and pet them first, spent a lot of time answering questions. Clearly an animal lover. The miss would be the vet who advised us to see the eye specialist for an unresolved tear. We were fortunate to get a next day appointment, but the ophthalmologist could not see a tear and said everything looked healed. Happy for the results, but that was a few hundred dollars and when asked if it seemed likely it would heal in less than 24 hours the response was a laugh and something non-committal. Their Covid protocol is to pick up the animals from the parking lot with the vet calling for a summary. It's a very smooth process. When I have had questions for the doctor for an upcoming appointment they clearly always pass it along. I would recommend Dr.Hoge but can't speak for the other veterinarians. I have not had enough consistent interaction.