I had a fantastic exerience with Dr. Wolf back in Sept. 2014. She took me seriously about my concerns where the U of M did not. We did an MRI and found a herniated disc in spite of my dog's symptoms being very subtle. U of M said it was only a strained muscle. She also prescribed a treatment that was excellent and cutting edge. My dog is expected to make a close to full recovery.

Having never heard of Blue Pearl I wish I would have gone with my gut instinct and stuck with my second opinion appointment with the UofM, but my vet had me so scared about the aggressive nature of my dogs condition I went ahead with their referral to be seen the same week. The visit with Dr. Schmidt she seemed caring and provided a variety of options for treatment, none of which were outside of the box. Basically here are your options, take your pick and then sign off on the estimate. Since the time of my initial appointment I have had nothing but problems getting a call back from the doctor herself and issues with staff returning my calls. When I have gone back for prescription refills, everyone is very nice but even having called in the prior day have had issues with the refills being ready to pick up, it's like mass confusion. What I have noticed is everyone who goes into Blue Pearl leaves with a goodie bag of pills. I could go on and on about my experience with the refill process, but... If you do decide or are already a referral customer, do your research on the pill costs, they are much more expensive, at least the ones my pet is on, than from my normal vet, whom they have told me they are not able to transfer the prescription to them. Come on Blue Pearl, you are a referral only vet that my vet referred me to. Leaves the lasting feeling of a greedy money hungry company. My dog is my family, as dear as a child. I would never recommend this Vet to anyone. Just a side note they are not into any alternative treatment options, i.e. holistic or otherwise, as some of their bios describe. Very frustrated with this "cut and dry" approach to the care of my pet.

Dr. Wolf is not very caring or compassionate. My dog was/is very sick with Megaesophogus and Aspiration Pnuemonia-Dr. Wolf was very short and rude-she talked down to us and didn't explain what was going on with our dog. This was the worst experience I have ever had with a DVM.

As Zorro was in advanced lymphoma - I thought I had no options. After talking with Dr. Husbands we had a 3% chance. As I told him 3% is better than 0%. He was very up front about the cost - which I could deal with. In the end the 97% took over - after a number chemo treatments & blood transfusions Zorro was just too weak. The entire staff at Blue Pearl & Golden Valley Vet were so wonderful to deal with during this painful time. When I contacted Golden Valley Vet about the situation - I told them I did not want any paper work during this - I walked in the reception staff just took me to the private room - where Zorro passed.