South Federal Animal Hospital

I have been using South Federal Animal Hospital for about 1 year now. The staff is the best. All the doctors are great I especially like Dr. Fumi who calls me from home about my dog. But the receptionists and medical Technologists are the best. The waiting room is comfortable and homey with cute ceramic things depicting dogs and cats. My dog loves going there.

We’ve been taking all of are rescued pets here for years. Dr meilan Dawn and Brian are awesome. .kudos to the whole staff .True animal lovers here

The best animal hospital in south Florida. They will take care of your pet like it was there kids.

We have been taking our cats to South Federal since we moved to the neighborhood in 1988. Dr. Melian is only the start of the caring folks at this clinic. Dr Stelljes is normally the vet that sees our cats and she also truly emanates nothing but caring for them, even when one is a bit «testy».
I have never felt taken advantage of, nor has any process or procedure been suggested that I didn’t agree with.
The only negative for me is that if it is busy, my cats are terrified by barking dogs being so close as it is a small waiting room. However, not a big enough issue to change. I probably feel worse than they do.

We have been taking our pets to South Federal since we moved here about 9 years ago. Our pets were getting on up there in years and so we would go to South Federal and then end up having to make their primary vet one of the larger (far away) hospitals that had specialists (in our case a cardiologist and a neurologist). It got to where we felt like we were only going to South Federal when our animals where finally ready to be put to sleep. In fact, the last (and third) time we had an animal put down, my husband joked that he was going to go in and tell the receptionist «we’ll have the usual».
That said, I have to say that I have been deeply impressed with Dr. Meilan in all of my dealings with him. Not only do I feel he emanates a sincere empathy toward my animals, but he greatly impressed me with his advice in handling one of our animals who developed a brain tumor. Dr. Meilan was very kind, yet very honest and straightforward with me about what our options were and about what HE would do in our situation. At a time when people will try to sell you just about anything whether you need it or not, Dr. Meilan impressed me as a man who would not waste my money. He in fact discouraged me from further diagnosis and treatments which he knew would most likely do nothing to prolong my cats life and serve only to empty my pocketbook. How often do you have that happen to you in this day and time?! In the final analysis (which came in the form of a 2K cat scan at a specialist), he was absolutely correct! Because of this sort of honesty, I now trust implicitly when I walk thru those doors that I am not being taken advantage of. And let me tell you, that is a great feeling to have.

We have taken our dogs and cats here for the last 5 years and love, love this vet. We tried several others prior to picking this office. We mainly use Dr. Robin Stelljes, we have met with all the Dr’s and they are fantastic! I recommend them to all my friends.

The woman that answers the phone has debilitating RA. The worst I’ve seen and yes you can see it. I assume she is in tremendous pain all of the time. Keeping someone on staff like that knowing she’s going to have mostly bad days says a lot about the place. That being said they are not the most technically astute vet or fanciest aka Gentle Care but certainly not a bad vet and they do listen to you and care about your pet. I was looking for a new vet when I moved to FLL 10 years ago and I went to Gentle Care and they «politely» dismissed me saying that ‘they had enough patients and I should try South Federal Animal Hospital”…So much for Gentle Care eh? So certainly not a bad vet and they do care about your animal