Best Friends' Veterinary Hospital

We have taken our dog here for 12 years. Dr. Hollifield is very knowledgeable and caring. She and her staff take good care of all animals. We are thankful to have found such a good vet practice!

Excellent care for my pet pig. Dr. Hollifield drained a large abscess under his chin as an outpatient, stitched up the incision with dissolving stitches, sent us home with some pain medicine and care instructions. Several days later now, he is doing very well.

The veterinarian was super nice and loved my ball pythons. The lobby is also really cool looking they have several fish tanks. They seem to really care a lot about the animals and live their work. Edit: This is one of the closest places near Frederick that accepts treatment on snakes. Also this veterinary office tries to make sure your animal is living in the right environment and gets the correct and needed nutrients or equipment. I might switch all my animals here even though it’s a long drive.

We love Best Friends Vet! They always take such good care of our pet parakeets. Dr. Hollifield has an amazing demeanor with us and our pets. She clearly cares a lot about her animals!

The staff here is amazing and the prices are great! Dr. Hollifield is the best, I have had all of my cats and dogs kept healthy by Doc and her staff. I first came here with a dog of mine dog back in 1995 and ever since then I've brought all of my animals here (dozens) and I've never had a bad experience. I would recommend anyone who loves their pets and considers them a part of your family to go see the caring and knowledgeable experts at Best Friends!

I had an emergency with my parakeet. They got me in quickly and the doctor made herself available via email over the weekend. It was a dire situation that unfortunately did not end well for our little guy but the staff was wonderful, kind, caring, and compassionate. We truly appreciated everything they did and if you are looking for an exotic vet (which is hard to find) I would not hesitate to recommend!

After many visits with my beautiful, beloved 12 year old leopard gecko that went pretty well, my final visit went very poorly. It ended up leading to me having to euthanize my beautiful gecko. I’m only leaving this review so no one else has to go through what I went through. At the end of my last visit, they suggested to cut her claws and they did. I did not know any better. This was the first time I’ve ever had a gecko and did not know that you should never ever do this. My gecko trusted me and I let her down. Please don’t ever let any Vet do this to your lovely gecko. She ended up getting an infection in all four of her paws. She could not walk around. She was in extreme pain and it was excruciating to watch her demise. I emailed them a couple times to ask them what I should do. It was under their suggestion that I go to Pender. It was not a very kind email. When I did finally hear back from them after I let them know what happened it wasn’t even from the doctor. At least it was from one of their staff, which I was grateful for. I had to give my poor little girl shots of antibiotics and morphine for the pain she was in. The antibiotics cleared up the infection, but the morphine caused more problems for her and I had to end up euthanizing her last week. My heart is crushed. She would’ve been just fine if they would’ve just left her claws alone. Please don’t EVER let anybody do this to your leopard gecko Thank you for responding. I want to clarify that it was Pender veterinarian hospital that prescribed antibiotics for her infection not NSAIDs. The antibiotics did clear up her infection in all 4 paws she got from the nail clipping. Pender also was the one to prescribe morphine to my leopard gecko since she was in so much pain from the infection. They did the best they could given the situation. Sorry for any confusion in my review