Vet Clinic Fakes Dog's Death

[Cataholic]

Loudlou- WOW. I am so sorry to hear the story about Twiggy, and what your family went through That made me really sad.

To think they actually billed you, that sounds alot like fraud, to me.

[Scooby4]

I have to say this post opened my eyes! When I put Dirtnap down, I had gotten a reference from our city's animal control officer. Our animal control office is too small to hold more than 5 animals so they often keep them at local vets offices. When they have to put an animal down, they use this vet they recommended. So I knew he wouldn't try to "talk me into additional care".
Dirtnap was mostly deaf, had arthritis, Cataracts, was over 12 years old, had rotted teeth, and sores/growths over it's body. I suspected possible cancer undiagnosed since he was very sensitive to the touch at times. I only adopted Dirtnap (original name Nicky) so the family who owned it would not see him put to sleep. His owner was confined to a wheelchair and had moved in with her son who could not keep the dog. I felt letting them know the dog went to a good home to live out it's days would be a comfort. They were informed of my plans to eventually put "Dirtnap" to sleep when the time came. He lived with me for almost a year before being put to sleep.
I did change his name to "dirtnap" so I wouldn't get attached and the dog couldn't hear anyways. Of course, I got attached and I promised to be there when the doctor finally put him down. I petted him until he passed away peacefully.
I feared the whole time that someone might have thought I hadn't done enough for this dog. That they would refuse to put the dog to sleep. I actually did have 2 vets who did refuse when I asked. They didn't know the entire story as the family of the dog had requested and supported the decision to put the dog to sleep. I had also done alot of rehabilitation on the dog and it's health had improved greatly by the time the vets had seen him. It was after a surprise incident where the dog had actually began acting aggressively out of the clear blue and had clear senility issues that I found the vet that agreed to put him down. (Dirtnap actually tried to attack and bite me without warning and had a "dazed" look like he didn't know where he was. It was clear that senility was setting in.)
Putting an animal down is never an easy decision. It takes a long time to allow the idea to "set in" and be accepted. Dirtnap lived with me for almost a year before I allowed myself to follow through with the plans to put him down. It would have ripped me to pieces to find out someone "switched" and adopted the dog out instead! Maybe he had a few more months but in what condition? He wasn't getting any better and it was a constant fear of never knowing if I could freely pet him without risk of him snapping.

[sammy101]

LoudLou-how terrible
When we put by RB girls to sleep, my mom and dad were with them when they put them down. Its very scary that some vets would actualyl do this. But, if a owner comes in to put the dog to sleep 'just because' i would send the dog to a rescue.

[shihtzulover850]

How terrible that the vet would do that!!

[king2005]

Loudlou I'm so sorry to read about that poor pup & your mother
My old dog was wrongfully PTS & I think that getting his body back kind of helped & let me know he really was gone. The first thing I did was to make sure it really was him, saddly it was. all his lumps & scars were there

This is just another reason why I hate vets