Boulder Veterinary Hospital PC

I really like this vet office. They are a very thoughtful caring and competent group. I also think the women at the front are fabulous. I have called with issues that needed quick follow up and the reception group has been very helpful in getting me to the right people and also getting a response. I have been going here for 12 years. They are also very helpful in giving you treatment options and the doctors provide the best follow up of any vets that I have ever worked with. I really appreciate the thoughtful and prompt follow up.

I have taken my chihuahua to Boulder Veterinary Hospital 6+ times. I have mostly seen Dr. Ed Berman. I really trust Dr. Berman, he is a patient, active listener. I recently took my dog to see Dr. Berman as she had seemingly hurt her back the night before. The Veterinarian suggested a conservative approach, he examined the dog and answered all the questions I had. He spent more than 30 minutes with us. I had a rather unpleasant experience with Alpenglow the previous night (when the dog injured herself). The Veterinarian at Alpenglow was rude and didn’t listen to one word I said about how the dog had been hurt, he literally spent 2 minutes with me, didn’t examine the dog and suggested deep sedation, x-​rays and complete blood work?!? We decided to wait until the next day and take the dog to her regular vet. I’m so very glad we did! I never feel like I’m being suckered in to unnecessary tests or procedures at Boulder Veterinary Hospital, establishing a trustful relationship with the doctor that takes care of my pets is important to me. Additionally, Dr. Berman called 3 times to check in on my dog! I will always recommend this animal hospital.

The doctors here get 5 stars all day long, great and personable and have an awesome bedside manner
The receptionists are a totally different story; most of the time you’re ignored when you walk in, they have the bedside manner of a grizzly bear making it about the most unwelcome place to enter into.
My advice: ditch miss New York at the front desk and hire someone with a sense of humanism and what it’s like to come in with a pet emergency because by her actions today she could care less…
I had an emergency and wasn’t even acknowledged, rather she yammered on the phone about underwater dog treadmills to whoever she was talking. Even a simple «I’ll be right with you» would suffice.

We’ve been taking our dog here for 8 years. We always see Dr. Ed Berman. He’s great and truly cares for our dog. Not sure about the other docs but I’ve never had any issues here.

I also just wanted to give some example prices, since its so hard to find out what a vet is going to charge you ahead of time – for a regular visit, its $ 55, for a follow up or puppy exam, its $ 44. Shots for my puppy were around $ 25 each… nail trimming/​ear washing is around $ 22-​$ 25. I don’t have much to compare it to, but it seems pretty reasonable.

We have a rare-​breed, special needs cat and learned quickly that he requires an extremely qualified vet to handle his issues. Boulder Vet fit the bill, they have taken wonderful care of him! The vets here are all gentle and patient with our cat, and he is not always easy to handle! They also recognized potential health problems unique to hairless cats that our previous vet completely overlooked. They also accept that we may know some things about his care that they might have overlooked, and consider the breed-​specific concerns we raise. Overall, we’ve been highly impressed with the level of care they provide.
They are also super easy to communicate with: In the month before his surgeries I called them at least twice a week with some new concern or question, and they always took the time to fully answer me. They called a couple of times the week after his surgery to check in on him, and then again a week or so later. We also appreciate their cost consideration: If there are two treatment options, they’ll tell you the pros and cons of both, including cost, before letting you chose, and they do their best to come up with affordable, simple treatments when possible.

We just rescued a kitten from rural Colorado and called first thing on Monday morning hoping to get an appt that day. The receptionist was very friendly and she got us an appt in the afternoon. The doctor was very nice and gave us some helpful advice for our kitty. We’re going back in a month for shots. The costs were surprisingly low too. It’s a good feeling having a local vet that we like!

In my never ending and quite frustrating quest for holistic vetcare in Boulder, I have taken the beasties in to this clinic a few times over the years. They sure are nice and very earnest in their efforts but they failed us recently when, upon the aspiration by the doctor of a small tumor which was very ambiguously cancerous, I decided to get a second opinion at CSU’s Animal Cancer center in Ft. Collins. I collected the necessary medical records from BVH and brought them with me to CSU. Strangely the doctor there could not locate the very obvious tumor. He asked me to point it out to him and exclaimed ‘Oh it’s on her LEFT side, all the medical records state that it’s on the RIGHT side!’ Oh my goodness let me tell you, if your veterinarian mislocates something as important as a tumor that needs operating on, what would happen when you let him perform surgery and he cuts open the wrong area to remove a tumor that suddenly is not there? Definitely not recommended.