Long Island Veterinary Specialists Killed my dog, veterinary malpractice, fraud, pet abuse, trying to hide the truth on the internet. FIND A OTHER VET. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Plainview NY

Long Island Vet Specialists are a criminal organization. They will harm your animal. They will steal your money. STAY AWAY IF YOU LOVE YOUR PET

 My neighbor worked there and was eye witness to the horrors of what they did to the animals - and how they lied and swindled the clients. It is sickening that they have not been investigated, prosecuted, arrested, and shut down. Do not bring your dog or cat there - you will leave with a dead or injured pet and a ridiculous bill and your pet will suffer horribly. The most evil and most charming and polite people you will ever meet - smooth smooth smooth talking salespeople but the Dr. Joseph Mengele's of the vet world.

They will charm you, rob you, and inflict pain, suffering, and death on your dog or cat. I am certain and my neighbor was certain that Dominic Marino and his inner circle like Catherine Loughin and Jill Faber were legitimate psychopaths. They fit the criteria in that they are very polished and charming and convincing, have no moral regret, will do anything to get money from you and max out your insurance and credit, and either enjoy harming the animals to do this or are just coldly indifferent to it and can justify it as a means to enrich themselves as they feel they deserve. Like any fraud mill, in order to stay in business, they front some legitimate vet services as well such as opthamology which is legit there and then use that as a front to swindle and harm so many others.

Marino is a local who launders his ill gotten gains through many local businesses and buys an interest in small strip mall vets across the island as a method of funneling new victims to his murder chamber for profit. Your local vet is probably getting a cash referal if he sends you to LIVS. They claim to have the only MRI on the island but it is in a trailer in their parking lot and is not inspected or properly maintained or operated. Read the news to see about dogs that have been killed or crippled in LIVS MRI - just check the NY Post or News 12 Long Island. I cant believe this is still continuing 8 years after my neighbor left there.

Thank you for posting your story and allowing me to reply. I hope this saves other people the horrors they will experience if they trust LIVS. You can never get your pet back once it has been killed. Avoid the staff especially Catherine Loughin and Dominic Marino. Every decent vet quit the place 15 years ago except for the opthamologist because he is a part owner.

 They did the same thing to us. Damaged my dog's kidneys beyond repair in a procedure that was sold to me under false pretense. The procedure was not actually appropriate for my otherwise healthy dog but was a lot of money for LIVS $$$$ They had unsupervised residents and untrained techs perform the procedure - which should have had no impact on his kidneys - but they made errors that permanently damaged his kidneys and other areas - and caused him pain and an agonizing death.There was no appropriate supervision. Horrible place. A Mill. My baby is gone forever because of LIVS and his last days on Earth were a horror because of Long Island Vet Specialists (LIVS).

I am so sorry for the sad losses people suffer at the hands of Long Island Vet Specialists which is essentially a fraudulent money mill. After the death of my dog there recently, I have done a lot of research in the past 4 weeks and can shed some light on your complaint and comments - all of which are sadly true. Bottom line - they are fraudulent - they misrepresent -they harm animals and families in Nassau County - they should be closed down and the vets involved in the fraud should have their licenses revoked. None of this will happen however. I went to LIVS because they claim to have an army of great specialists. It is all false advertising and a facade.

My appointment ended up being with a doctor named Catherine Loughin who misrepresented her expertise and convinced me that my dog should have disc surgery or she would decline drastically, and that the disc surgery was easy and safe. Loughin filled me with fear to convince me to agree. She is NOT EVEN CERTIFIED for some specialties where she claims expertise and certification - such as in this case. My dog, I learned after the fact, had nothing more than pulled muscles from playing to much over the weekend. However, it was too late because Dr. Loughin had destroyed her. This doctor is not just incompetent -

I believe she has the qualities of a psychopath - she is charming, convincing, polished, smooth and highly highly manipulative and deceitful. She engenders your trust by making you think she has expertise and has found things other doctors cant find and that if you dont listen to her your pet will suffer horribly. Then she sells you thousands of dollars of procedures - even offering to have LIVS extend credit to you to pay for the procedures (at 30% interest). It is a total sales scam. Loughin, at the behest of her business partner (and boyfriend) Dominic Marino, tries to sell you as many procedures and tests as she can, manipulating you into giving her as much money as she can get (she gets a fixed percent of each dollar from Marino). Then she critically injures your pet - paralysis, punctured organs, lacerations, wounds that should not occur from these simple procedures. She is highly charming and convincing and pre-meditated.

She is soft spoken before the fact - and then hostile after when you question what happened or all the additional things she starts trying to sell. There are differing opinions among former employees regarding if the injuries are inflicted on purpose or just through complete incompetence and neglect but the next step is the same either way. She then tries to extract as much money from the distraught owner to "fix" the damage she caused until the pet is dead after a dragged out painful period. She learned this practice from her boss Dominic Marino who is notorious in the industry for this conduct. It is an unregulated industry so very difficult to bring this to justice. The licensing board in NY has never shut a facility or revoked a license in 50 years and has never opened a hearing on the hundreds of complaints against this place.

The board is a handful of third rate vets and administrators notorious for taking bribes and payoffs in addition to their salaries. LIVS Chief Administrative Officer Brian McKenna actually sits on the board and blocks every complaint against LIVS for 20 years. Some victims and employees claim the injuries are inflicted on purpose in order to sell even more procedures and that Loughin is a pure psychopath as is Marino - charming during the sale - then intimidating and cold while selling you repair services "which are the only way to get your dog back to normal" (normal being how your dog was before LIVS touched her). Others say it is just because they have COMPLETELY UNTRAINED techs and residents working on the pets and that they let completely UNCERTIFIED and UNTRAINED and UNQUALIFIED people operate the anesthesia.

They have chemically destroyed countless pets with overdoses during routine procedures. The industry is so unregulated that they get away with it. They may have more "anesthesia accidents/incidents" than any vet hospital in NY State. Unfortunately these facts are known through the vet community and confirmed by victims and former LIVS doctors alike. Sadly, consumers do not know about it until it is too late - LIVS markets and advertises in the area, on Channel 12, and on the internet, and in Newsday and through advertisements designed to look like news articles when they are not. They pay to have fake good reviews written and bad ones deleted. Most criminal organizations have a legitimate front to make the scam more workable and LIVS is one of these.

They have two good specialists in the area of ophthalmology and this gives credibility to the rest of the organization but the rest of the place is smoke and mirrors and a criminal scam. 15 years ago there were a few other decent doctors there but they all left in disgust at the crimes. All I can say is I am so sorry for all the victims of this place - canine, feline, and the families that loved them. I do not know how Long Island Vet Specialists (LIVS) remain in business - or how Marino and Loughin and McKenna remain out of jail. There are plenty of good alternatives in the area and no reason whatsoever to go to LIVS if you care about your pet at all. Thank you for filing this complaint and for giving me a chance to support it. Nothing will bring my amazing Princess back to me but I hope having this review can help protect others from Dr. Loughin and Dr. Marino and LIVS. It is like a Steven King horror movie behind the scenes/facade at LIVS. Why wont the authorities shut this place down?

They did the exact same thing to our dog. They coerced us through fear and false diagnosis and claims to agree to let them perform tests on our dog who had a minor stomach issue and diahreah. They convinced us he needed thousands of dollars in tests and maxed our credit cards. They even had us sign a credit agreement with them so they could charge us a fortune. A resident and a Dr Loughin terrified us into believing the dog needed all sorts of procedures. We handed over our dog and six hours later he was destroyed - not by an illness but by the procedures they performed.

Then, they tried to sell us thousands more dollars in services to treat and cure the DAMAGE THEY HAD DONE. Total fraudsters - total liars. We got him out of there right away and to another vet who said the dog was clearly injured by the people at LIVS, but the damage was so severe and there was no chanc to save our beautiful baby. LIVS still charged our credit card thousands of $$$. STAY AWAY if you love your pet. They are monsters - fraudsters - criminals. We have heard horror stories about the place since then from 50 different people. How does the state let them stay open?

Thank you for creating this report - we only wish we had seen it sooner. Our dog would still be alive if we had not gone to LIVS.