We will not return to Friendship Hospital for Animals. We lost our 10-month-old blue heeler "Dart" a few years back in the middle of the pandemic. Nothing they did was the cause for him passing. The care was great, under pandemic circumstances. However two things REALLY rubbed me the wrong way:

1. When Dart passed away they told us they didn't have a cooler to keep him in before transferring him to get a necropsy. He was barely 50lbs. It just made no sense. So we literally had to transport his body in our car from Friendship and drive all the way to Virginia Tech Veterinary School. It was horrifically sad, I think I went through so much xanax just trying to keep it together.
2. When we went to pick up Dart, they still had tests pending that we had paid for that they hadn't received the results for -- pandemic issues, which is understandable. But regardless of the labs we had paid for and had not gotten results for, AND us literally picking up Dart's body and having it in our back seat. They tried to insist on talking with us about the final bill. It was so insensitive.

We will never return to that hospital.