That's why a GOOD vet will question you about your animal before doing anything with it. I'm wondering why this vet's techs didn't take a history and ask why the client wanted the animal euthanized. It sounds like total irresponsibility on the part of both the client and the tech. If I were bringing an animal in to be neutered, I would want to know things like when I could pick the animal up, post-op instructions....you know, important stuff.

One of my teachers told me a similar story about a woman who brought two young basset hound in to be "destroyed", thinking that "destroyed" was the proper term for neutering them. She did come back before both of them had been euthanized, but she did lose one dog.

Another example of when correct terminology is important, and why it is VITAL for the techs to ask questions, is if a dog comes in that the client says is "vomiting", then you question them and find out that the animal is REGURGITATING....the two terms are different, and indicative of different things.