South Pasadena Veterinary Hospital

South Pasadena Veterinary Hospital is a full-service animal hospital that offers a wide range of services for pets of all shapes and sizes, including cats, dogs, birds, hamsters, guinea pigs, reptiles, and exotics. The hospital is under new management, and the staff is known for their kindness, gentleness, and high level of skill. Customers have praised the vets as "amazing" and the receptionists as "very patient." The hospital has also been commended for its quality service and the lack of "sour faces or grouchy ways." The veterinarian, Dr. Navia, is a superb clinician with great surgical skills and is very gentle with animals. She treated a customer's dog for a bad heart valve and heart failure over a couple of years. When the dog's disease progressed and the customer decided on euthanasia to prevent suffering, Dr. Navia was very skillful at the procedure and provided emotional support as well. The facility is service-oriented, and customers never feel like they are bothering the staff or that they are in it for the money. Customers describe the hospital as a "great business" that is "caring, friendly, and love animals." They also mention that the facility is "fairly priced to inexpensive," and that the weekly injections for a customer's dog were handled by "extremely nice" technicians who "take great care of him despite his protests."