Stuart Spencer

I have been taking my cats to Queen Anne Animal Clinic for several years now.
Dr. Spencer and the rest of the staff at QAAC have always treated me very well. I had two cats (prior to the 3 I have now) and Dr. Spencer was amazing when I needed to make important decisions about their care as they got older. I lost one to cancer and one to kidney failure. It was a very difficult for me. I had my female until she was almost 20 and my male until about 17. I felt so much better knowing that I had a good vet to work with and I completely agreed with what he thought I should do. I talked to him a lot on the phone too. He even called to talk to me about my girl after she had been put to sleep. I thought that was so kind. He didn’t have to do that. He’s very busy and he took the time to call me and make me feel better. When I had to say goodbye to both of them, each time the people in this office were so compassionate. I was scared and Dr. Spencer, the other vets there, the techs and the front desk support staff got me through it. I received beautiful cards that were signed by the staff and it meant a lot and I’ve kept them. I know other people that go to him too and we all agree he’s very knowledgeable, proactive about home care, and has a very pleasant style with customers.
The review written by Lily H seems rather snotty and rude. It is not the Dr. Spencer I know and I have seen him at least a dozen times. He has always been competent and caring. Thank you Dr. Spencer. I appreciate you and everyone at Queen Anne Animal Clinic. Thank you for helping us take good care of our beloved animals. Also, I don’t expect perfection. I expect people to try every day to do the best they can and in my view that’s what they do at Queen Anne Animal Clinic.

Three of my cats now have been patients of Dr. Spencer’s. In a nutshell, he is extremely knowledgeable, competent and compassionate and truly cares about animals. I wouldn’t trust my beloved pets’ care to anyone else.

Jocular he is, competent he is not.
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Over two years ago we brought our ailing 19-​year-​old cat here. The professional ineptitude and desultory attitude of Dr. Stuart Spencer was nothing short of remarkable.
(1) He took a five-​second look – I am unable to use the word «analysis” – of my cat’s nose and then laconically – I detected a yawn of complacency mixed with boredom – and solemnly declared that «he [not Dr. Spencer] has a precancerous lesion.*»
Without missing a beat, he turned what had been a rather less than enlightening medical examination to the subject of surgery [removal of the supposed lesion] and how it, in terms of logistics and cost, would proceed.
(2) I will not go into the ethical implications of a veterinarian refusing to see the dying cat of a client. [Whatever reservations we had had about his clinic had, all along, been kept to ourselves].
Nor recount the particulars of his soft-​shoe sell of a highly improbable «dental package» for a 19-​year-​old cat in renal failure.
Instead, I will simply state here that on our very first visit to the Queen Anne Clinic the actual physical examination of our cat lasted a total of 90 seconds and that the rest of the time Dr. Spencer droned on about options for treatment and offered dubious explanations – more his own personal («armchair philosophy») opinions – that could have been just as easily and certainly more profitably been kept strictly to himself.
* dermatitis, in fact
Please read my original review:
I am still very troubled at the treatment we received here. More to the point, I would never take my pet to see Stuart Spencer.
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Queen Anne needs a decent veterinary clinic. Unfortunately, this Dr. Spencer lacks the prerequisites, professional and ethical, to be employed in such an establishment.