Ok. No. To say I'm boling mad would be a gross understatement. I am so completely & thoroughly PO'd I have to stop myself from, this very minute, going down to the E-Vets that BUTCHERED my dog and going postal on those incompitant @$$*****!!! The only thing holding me back is that it's after midnight here, and no other clients will be there to hear me give those stupid Vets a verbal beating.
UGH. My girl looks like Jack the Ripper got a hold of her! To make a long story short, we took her downtown to Bergh Memorial animal hospital on 7/16 for a c-section. They were the closest 24hr Vet hospital and really the only place we had to turn. Bailey had been in hard labor for a little over an hour, and it was blatantly obvious that contractions had stopped, and there was a puppy stuck in the birth canal. Part of the sac was protruding from the vulva as well. She was obviously suffering. Was having trouble breathing and looked like she was going in and out of consciousness at one point. Now, for those that don't know, Bergh Memorial is the ASPCA's vet hospital. It's inside their adoptions building & is the vet clinic you see if you've ever watched that phony Animal Cops show (I say phony b/c I have3 reported obvious neglect to the ASPCA & it was blatantly ignored). With the donations that place revieves you'd think they had state of the art Vets & equipment. The place was a hole. My regular Vet has a nicer, more state of the art office.
We were seen by that Dr Paiva (sp?) with the heavy accent. She informed me that they didn't do c-sections, as it was their "mission" to s/n. But she promised me they would do an x-ray, give her the Oxy shot, then refer me to a clinic that could do a c-section if the Oxy didn't work. TWO FRICKEN HOURS LATER, nothing had been done. NOTHING. Excuse after excuse. They had no available techs to do the x-ray, other dogs were using the x-ray .... until finally I just broke down and said if this dog has been suffering for two hours with a puppy stuck in her birth canal, just spay her. Do whatever it takes or I'm going to have dead pups & a dead momma. Within 5 minutes of me saying this, Bailey was x-rayed and given the Oxy shot. They were deliberately stalling so I'd agree to spay. That is my first gripe.
I was not happy with the way I was treated when I went to pick her up however that is another story. I NEVER imagined the dog would not recieve good care in their hands. I figured at least she has her pups, and is not in pain. And honestly trusted them to care for her to the best of their ability. I should have known something was wrong when the Vet who did the spay called me & couldn't tell me wha sex the pups were b/c she couldn't sex pups ...
Well, tonight, I went to take out the staples from the incision, because a few of them had fallen out over the past 24hrs anyway. Note: I've een cleaning the wound with soap/water daily. Checking that little puppy feet do not get acught in the staples. And when she ran out of Clavamox they sent her home with, I started her up on plain amoxicillin, just because the would still looked a little raw to me. Well, raw doesn't even begin to describe what I saw tonight!!! As I mentioned, a few stapled had fallen out so the incision was now much more noticable. I started plucking at a staple and got a huge clump of hair out in the tweezer! So I dug a bit further, and more hair - and even more. Half a dozen clumps and there is still more in there. This was packed in SHAVED hair, not hair that had been shed. Shaved clumps of hair embedded in the wound and underneath the staples. Good God, if you saw what I took out of her tonight :( There is most likely hair inside her abdomen. I was so disgusted I called my regular Vet and have an appointment for him to take the staples out on Thursday, I just do not want to touch the incision & am afraid by what I might see underneath.
This was the ASPCA Vets. If I had cut the dog open myself, I could have done a better job. This was a beautiful show bitch with so much potential that they spayed unnecessarialy (the pups were just oversized) and on top of that they butchered this poor thing. I have been to low cost clinics in the south Bronx and had Vets do meticulous spay jobs that you could barely see the incision when it healed. These are the types of Vets the ASPCA hires with all the $$$ they get:
Ok. End or rant. Feel better now ...