Please share with everyone, this expression of LOVE & GRATITUDE for saving, repairing, and caring for our sweet girl Georgia.

BEVS was on the job long before our most recent visit.  You have always been there for us, 24/7 (people say that about their service, but you prove it true every time) therefore, when I saw Georgia crawling out from the sumac grove, bloody and scared, I already knew how to help her.  I taught Pet First Aid for a few years for the Red Cross so I followed the lesson plan and provided the “immediate and temporary care necessary to safely transport, to definitive and professional veterinary care, without causing additional harm”.  I quickly checked her wounds, carried her to the safe transport set up in my car, and yelled to my husband “CALL BEVS!!”

We headed directly to your hospital and as I’ve experienced it, your bulletproof trauma center.  Start to finish I was treated as an intelligent and emotional human being, and it was pointed out to me that BEVS understood that I too had experienced trauma.  A gurney was used to get Georgia inside, every one was focused, calm, so calm, professional, and ready to go. I approved the necessary things, first verbally (grateful to be trusted) and then in more detail during the cost estimation… which is a critical service, provided judgement free, and for me it was a first look at what you needed to do and could do to care for Georgia. I had no doubt that you were going to give her every chance for a life saving outcome. That’s exactly what you provided, along with all the kindness and care needed to keep her from experiencing additional trauma and for me, to make necessary decisions.

Everything from the car ride to the checkin at BEVS is a bit fuzzy, so I’m not sure if explained that my biological father and my step dad, died 6 days apart, the week of Christmas.  I’d stayed in Massachusetts for 6 weeks to care for my mother who took a fall after my dad’s funeral, and had become wheelchair bound. I’d been home (in VT) for just three days when it happened.  I was bringing my husband home after back surgery when Georgia got loose. I take full responsibility because I chose not to get her harnessed and hooked to her 50’ lead before I opened the front door. (She’s a bird dog happy to trade the invisible fence shock for flushing a woodcock.)  I was exhausted and made a bad decision.  The tears I shed at BEVS, while Georgia was in treatment, contained all the feelings of guilt, fear, sorrow, grief, exhaustion and anger that I’d been holding in, for so long. I knew that Georgia was in your care, that the smartest and best we’re on the case.  The subsequent release of responsibility to you for Georgia’s medical care and the private room and safety provided to me (with tissues) combined for the treatment I needed, to survive.  It’s amazing how often kindness and care for a pet, can be treatment for the person as well…. Who Rescued Who, Right?

I have so much more I’d like to say in praise of everyone there, about checking in and out, phone updates and update requests, a flowing cost estimation process, your facility, and all that stuff. I would but, you’re busy and somebody somewhere will need you any minute now.

With great regard and gratitude,

Dr. Harnett,

I don’t know what we would have done without you.  You made this experience bearable.  Your kindness and care for Thea helped me so much.  I can’t express with words how honored and blessed I feel with the care she received by you and your staff.  She loved going there; I felt safe with her in your care.  Thank you for being the wonderful person you are and the amazing doctor you are too.  We were so lucky to have you!  You are the best!

Autumn Noble, Todd, and Mister

I wanted to send everyone at BEVS an email to let you know how grateful my fiancé and I are for everyone that participated in saving our little Ciel’s life.

We brought her in a couple of months ago after she was attacked by one of our other dogs and seemed to be in not-so-good shape. After spending the night for observation, her health seemed to worsen when everyone was hoping she would be good to go the next day. It seemed as though anything that could go wrong with her health did because of the trauma she suffered to her neck. She battled with fever, swelling, not being able to eat, low white blood cell count, and finally pneumonia in both lungs. As the days went on we became more and more terrified that we were going to lose her. We stayed up for days just holding onto every bit of hope we had so that our little Ciel could come home. After the 3rd night of her observation & treatment, she finally started to eat food again little by little and her attitude started getting better as well. After walking on eggshells for days, not sure, if she was going to make it, there was finally light at the end of the tunnel. On the morning of the fifth day, we were able to bring her home. She was not up to 100% yet, but she battled a lot while she was in the hospital. After many days of close observation, handling her with gloves, and giving her the prescribed medication, she was back to herself in no time.

I cannot say thank you enough to Josie Mallinckrodt, Tom Hecimovich, and all the staff that watched over our baby while she was there. You see, we do not have any children. Our dogs are our kids, so you can imagine how painful it was for us to be unsure if our Ciel was going to make it.

We are so grateful for everyone who helped bring our Ciel home.

Fondly,