If you have already read the article about Lazy 5 Vets alleged malpractice in dealing with an ill cat who bit a vet tech please read it again as I have updated it with a note having telephoned the hospital seeking a statement from them in response. The earlier post can be seen by …
Introduction: this is an account of the story about Oliver, the elderly cat unnecessarily euthanized at Odenton Veterinary Hospital, from an entirely different perspective. The author lives in the neighborhood where Oliver lived and has first hand knowledge of what happened. It is fascinating and provides much needed extra information. My thanks to Miss …
This cat should not have been killed by this veterinarian. It was shoddy, lazy veterinary work at best. The story unfolds slowly and in a sinister way. In America rabies is a rare but active and very dangerous disease and therefore strict precautions must take place to prevent people contracting it. “I can’t stop …
Thanks to the quick thinking of two sisters and the actions of an “army” of animal advocates, a South Carolina shelter is being forced to clean up its act, with more improvements to come, after being exposed using social media. Jessica Reed Kulas of Moore, South Carolina was traveling through Bennettsville on Saturday with …
I say that the animal control officer was very stupid. I have prejudged that based upon what I’ve read. It may be the case that he was both stupid and malicious but we will have to leave final judgement to his manager, the police and the prosecution service in Baldwin County, USA. This case …
You may remember the worldwide reporting of a cheetah attack on a ten-year-old boy at a captive cheetah breeding centre in Ladysmith, South Africa. Schoolchildren were on an educational outing organised by their school to the Kwa Cheetah breeding centre. One of those children was 10-year-old Aiden Davis. While there, a cheetah charged at …
A long-haired cat, said to be a Maine Coon, was left “distraught” after a pet shop worker cut off nearly all of his fur during a grooming session. He was there to have his knots removed but not almost all of his fur! His owner Natalie Thompson, 25, was upset when he was returned …
Although my deepest sympathies are with the family of the bereaved woman, there is a good aspect to this tragic story which you may have heard about. In brief, on June 1st, an American woman was visiting a South African safari park, in Gauteng, in which there are many lions. You drive through the …
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