From an ex-employee of Brambleton Veterinary Hospital

Because current employees of Dr. Linda Jennings posted here to share their impressions of Dr. Jennings, I thought it would be appropriate to share some comments from a former employee of Brambleton Vet. Unlike the current people, she doesn’t have a vested interest in one side or the other.

Jessica asked that I not use her last name. Except for adding paragraph breaks for clarity, I haven’t edited these except as noted.

Her first note:

I actually used to work at the Brambleton Vet. It was my first job out of high school and it was horrific. I knew I would never take an animal there after working there. I had similar things happen with Dr. Jennings. She is very rude and would leave surgery early for a golf game and just hand over responsibility to someone else. I worked there in 2000, so I’m not sure who is still there. Still, I find it hard to believe it has improved much.

She followed up with this:

There was one incident that probably stands out most in my mind that I can share. I worked in the lower level where the kennels were and we bathed, walked, and fed the dogs that came in for an appointment (or were there beeing borded). I remember two of the ladies that worked there and how unpleasant they were.

One day a dog came in for a bath and nail clipping. The woman started cutting his nails and cut the quick right away. He started to bleed and tried to get away, but she just brought over people to help restrain the dog so she could continue to trim his nails, and continue to cut the quick! No one did anything about it and the dog was hollering and barking and crying, bleeding all over the floor. I couldn’t believe she would conitnue and that people were letting her. I said I would go get someone, went upstairs totally distressed, and no one upstairs seemed to care either.

I can’t say whether those people still work there, but in general, I found that the wellbeing of the animals was not addressed consistently. This may have never happened again, but in the time I was there in 2000, I saw many things like this. This, however, stuck out in my mind because it was so distressing to be there, and perhaps I was not immune to the amount of blood. But this was a simple nail trimming and does not call for tough stomach.

She also mentioned some other things she heard about while there, but as I can’t confirm those stories I won’t include them.