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NYE County Veterinary Hospital
NYE County Veterinary Hospital
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700 South Frontage Road Pahrump, NV 89048
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(4 Reviews)
Excellent all the way around
by DON xxx.xxx.61.40
March 31, 2023
Wonderful care.. treated me like a human no complaints from me...Thank you Dr Barbara
by ACV xxx.xxx.155.231
February 05, 2018
Do NOT let this vet take your pet out of your sight
We require a vet who will work with us to find affordable -- and at least moderately up-to-date -- options, but, more importantly, we require a vet who will treat our pets with kindness and respect. When our 17-year-old cat, Leroy, reached a crisis point shortly after we moved to Pahrump in August, 2013, I took him to 3 of the 4 vets in the area and found them ALL to be UNACCEPTABLE.

@Nye County Veterinary Hospital: Dr. Barbara Biermeyer insisted on taking Leroy out of our sight when she treated him. We have never allowed vets to do that in the past but had forgotten WHY we didn't allow that. Dr. Biermeyer helped us remember that ALL competent vets allow you to go with your pet, any vet who doesn't is hiding something. NEVER trust a vet who insists on treating your pet out of your sight, you would be horrified to find out what they are doing behind your back. When we decided to have Leroy put to sleep, Dr. Biermeyer, who has the worst communication skills of any vet I've ever met, told us it would be very difficult to find a vein for the lethal injection because Leroy was dehydrated and 17 years old. She explained that she would take Leroy to "the back room" to give him a sedative before she brought him back and inserted a catheter into a vein in his leg for the lethal injection. Luckily, the clinic's receptionist, a new hire, just happened to let it slip that the good doctor planned to take Leroy to "the back room" to give him an injection straight into his heart, an extremely distressing and painful procedure we had already told Dr. Biermeyer we would not allow. Dr. Biermeyer had been urging us to put Leroy down for some time, she said Leroy didn't deserve prolonged medical care because he was "just a cat." She also said there was a risk that Leroy might die while she was treating him -- in the back room, out of our sight. I hate to think what she had in mind. A great veterinarian at A Cat Hospital in Las Vegas put poor little Leroy to sleep on Nov. 21, 2013. Right in front of us the whole time, they injected a sedative into his rump, then had no problems at all finding a suitable vein in his back leg for the lethal injection.

Dr. Jerry Henseler is the only area vet who will come to your home to put your pet to sleep and he told me he was more of "a dog person." He also said he would administer a lethal injection directly into Leroy's heart, obviously not an option. Before moving to Pahrump, I had never heard of a vet willing to do that to a pet, how odd to find two different vets here in Pahrump, Nevada, who perform this distressing, painful procedure on a routine basis. The more common perception of intracardiac injections is that it is not humane, and the practice is illegal in the state of California. AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia says, “Intracardiac injection is acceptable only when performed on heavily sedated, anesthetized, or comatose animals. It is not considered acceptable in awake animals, owing to the difficulty and unpredictability of performing the injection accurately.” MORE: http://www.examiner.com/article/ethics-of-human-doctors-performing-feline-intracardiac-euthanasia-during-hurricane-katrina AND http://badvetdaily.blogspot.com/2008/03/cat-stabbed-in-heart-with-euth-needle.html
by BlackjackUPDATED xxx.xxx.194.124
November 10, 2013
Nye County Veterinary Hospital is a small office, staffed by one vet, Dr. Barbara Biermeyer, DVM, and 2-3 support personnel. The building is clean, well-kept and comfortable, and conveniently located on Hwy 160 by the McDonald's. Staff are friendly, caring and accommodating. Dr. Biermeyer is experienced and well-competent, particularly for a small Nevada town in the middle of the Mohave desert. The area is fairly depressed, a large percentage of residents do not carry health insurance for themselves or their families, so although we found Nye County Vet Hospital's rates to be almost laughably low compared to veterinarians from Oregon to Florida to Massachusetts, fees are probably pretty standard for the area. If you live in the Pahrump area and are looking for a reputable office with kind, professional office staff and a doctor who can offer adequate veterinary services close to home, Nye County Animal Hospital is pretty much your ONLY option. We have tried three out of the four area vets. We found All Creatures Animal Hospital's Dr. Suzanne Zervantian to be crass, rude and grossly incompetent -- in fact, we wonder if she got her medical degree from an "online accredited" program, opting to bypass actual medical school. I brought an elderly cat presenting with signs of constipation in to see Dr. Zervantian shortly after we moved to the area. Dr. Zervantian's last words to me at the abrupt end of that first and only visit: "If your cat is in crisis, you need to go to Las Vegas." I wholeheartedly agreed with that assessment, and as I departed, Dr. Zervantian added: "And don't come back!" We found Homestead Animal Hospital to be a franchise office of a chain that is unable to staff a full-time veterinarian in Pahrump. The last contract veterinarian they had was fired six months ago, and they haven't been able to replace her yet. We haven't visited the fourth vet in the area, Animal Care Center of Pahrump, since we are happy with Dr. Biermeyer. One last note: If you are looking for 24-hour emergency vet hospitals, you will have to go to Las Vegas, to the 24 HOUR LAS VEGAS VETERINARY EMERGENCY CARE (702-262-7070). If you are looking for a veterinary specialist, you can find them at the same location in Vegas, different name: Las Vegas Veterinary Specialty Center. Be prepared to mortgage your home and/or take out a Care Credit credit card(s) -- both Las Vegas locations charge astronomical fees.
by Blackjack xxx.xxx.184.102
November 04, 2013
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700 South Frontage Road, Pahrump, NV 89048