Emanoel Kotev DVM

I was lucky enough to find Dr Kotev throught reviews on Unilocal (under the lake street animal hospita review) I have a 9 year old male husky named Juneau who tore his ACL in January of this year. I took Juneau to lake street animal hospital and they confirmed torn ACL and torn meniscus. I had a consult later that week with Dr Kotev who explained everything in detail including the different options, cost, recovery time, etc. I felt Juneau would be in great hands. However, he ran some tests and his ALT numbers were too high for sedation. Dr Kotev put him on liver supplements and we kept testing him ever two weeks, his numbers were up and down and since he didnt want to take the risk of sedating him and possibly losing our beautiful husky in surgery he took extra precautions. He eventually performed a liver ultrasound and noticed some white spots. He immediately scheduled a liver biopsy (all done by him at the lake street location) and it came back non-​cancerous. We finally were able to get Juneau in for TTA surgery. That day, Dr Kotev took more blood work to make sure everything was good, took really great care of Juneau and me (I was a mess)! He had me stay with Juneau until they had the drugs ready so that my dog wouldnt get scared and then they texted me when he started surgery. He called me immediately after and everything had gone extremely well. Let me mention that by this time I had spoken to Dr Kotev a million times during the t