I do not think I would believe this story if I had not lived it. Just the malice of ppl! Unreal! That vet and the vet hospital employee are seriously shady.
The new vet spent abt 45 minutes with mom, puppy and myself. I stopped giving sub-q fluids at abt 10AM as I could not see much tenting. We met the new vet at abt 2:15. My puppy has been pretty active and on his mom all day. My puppy was weighed at 130 grams. That is a 30 grams more than the other vet told me yesterday. (My new scale is off but that is another story). From 8PM March 3rd until 2:30PM March 10th there was a 29 gram gain with a day he got dehydrated.
He said to cease sub-q injections unless I saw actual dehydration because my puppy looked so healthy and vigorous with feeding. My mom is producing milk. He checked. He encouraged me to allow mom and pup to be natural unless I see distress.
My puppy does not look raw or excessively licked to mom. The vet said maybe she got a bit overzealous in licking following the c-section but he saw no evidence of it being a currently problem. He did state that a puppy not going back to mom is just an untruth on their part.
No way to know if the puppy has kidney problems without a blood panel and the vet thougt getting blood off a 130 gram puppy would not be the best at this time.
I can not stress enough how normal it all looked.
My puppy certainly got dehydrated on Friday and when I went to get saline from the vet I was subjected to a campaign of misinformation because someone wanted my puppy. He thought the vet offering to take the puppy shortly after birth to have it fostered by a staff member very odd.
My puppy's health was repeatedly misrepresented to me. His weight was misrepresented. His condition was misrepresented. There was a concerted effort to separate us from the puppy. I was told things like because I am less experienced than the staff member with sub-q I risked injuring, killing and drowning my puppy. Puppies are squirmy! Etc. I need to sit down and write a list of all their comments.
I am ticked. I am going to file a report with the state's vet licensing board. I have never done anything like this before. Does anyone have experience with filing against malpractice? I just feel taken advantage of in the extreme.
The new vet says he has not heard of a story like this but he has heard stories of vet offices performing c-sections on dogs like yorkies and claiming the litter consisted for 3 when in fact it consisted of 5 so they could keep 2 and profit from it. He was not referring to the particular shady vet in this episode.
Do you guys have advice on what I should do? The intent was malicious. I called the shady vet's office and asked for both yorkie's medical records. The person over the phone said there was nothing in the computer since last Friday and there were no handwritten notes by the doctor either. They usually have their files electronically done but the vet was behind. I actually saw paperwork when I was there but the staff has no idea where they would have been placed.
Okay I am steamed.
My pup appears to be doing well. I have no plans to abandon my close monitoring of his health. I plan to stay with them all night again. If I think he needs saline or milk I will be on it. I won't let him get weak.
Now I just need to fix my scale!
Thanks for reading my rant.
Also how small how small of a gain is 111 grams to 130 grams in 8 days with a dehydration event (and perhaps weight loss) in between? I realize it is not enough weight but is it normal considering the c-section and dehydration? |