Lakefield Veterinary Group

Jan 2025

This is a private equity group that buys out a lot of animal hospitals such as emerald city emergency clinic in order to make profits for their investors.
Please make sure your vet is locally owned and not a private equity owned business as the priorities of the patients and PE-owned business are obviously very different.

Jan 2024

Always check a veterinary clinic to see if it is owned by Lakefield Group or your pet will be irreversibly harmed or killed.Lakefield is not a “veterinary group” but a silly group of wealth management dabblers who are also hostile, heartless animal abusers taking advantage of the public’s trust to take your money and kill your pet for meaningless supplier incentives.All of their clinics have the same reviews and complaints of crazy, hostile staff, and frequent animal deaths and abuse.They killed our dog the first time we walked in that door. He was happy, healthy, ready for life and an upcoming hike.He was scheduled for a routine vaccine and was slaughtered at 8...read full review

May 2023

One of their owned vet office in Arizona has been losing patients because of the rudeness of the office staff. Vets are very well trained and personable - have been a client for a few years and have poured so much money in there with my 10 dogs only to be disrespected by an office person- when I complained to the higher ups, I was canned as a client- I transferred my records to their sister clinic only to be booted from that practice while having no issues there- I’m afraid by hiring incompetent, rude, disrespectful office staff will bring their own demise- oh and they slandered me/ libel saying I was the one that was abusive- May be worth a trip to my attorney and...read full review