This is just sick
 

On a news station, we just had a breaking news story at the noon hour. There is a Vet Clinic (Camp Bowie Animal Clinic) here in Ft. Worth that has big investigatin going on now. It seems that a lady had brought her dog to the clinic to be put to sleep and the Vet didn't do it, they had been using that dog for Blood Tranfusions. This is beyond sick. There will be more info on this story at the 4pm news hour, as this was just breaking news.

Holy cow, that is disgusting. I hate when I walk in to vet clinics and can sense right away that they're more geared toward getting money than they are about the animal's welfare. I feel for that dog's owners. Talk about filing suit against them. That's just so gross and inhumane.

Here is a short feed on it so far. Just so sick.


Fort Worth animal clinic raided after abuse claims | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth

That vet should be prosecuted to the end of his miserable days for this! That poor dog would have been better off dead than being kept from a normal dog's life, kenneled and looking forward to nothing but repetitive sticking with needles and lying still being bled over and over and over for however noble a cause his blood was taken or however many lives he saved. I can't even say how vile I think that whole staff is for putting up with this and abusing that poor animal this way.

Why was the dog brought in to be PTS? Seems to me that a sick dog couldn't be used to provide blood transfusions. Why did the owner want the dog PTS and why didn't she stay with her pet when it took it's final breath? I've only had to have one dog PTS and I stayed with her and held her bawling my eyes out. Who turned them in for not euthanizing the dog? Although it does seem shady there are dogs that are used for transfusions. Grayhounds have universal blood and are used all the time for just that reason.


Look at this too:

Pet Blood Bank, located and hidden somewhere in Austin, Texas, with somewhere between 100 and 200 greyhound captives. We know of many greyhounds that have just recently been released from there. Many of their owners had also never given permission for their greyhounds to be used as blood donors. That again is misrepresentation. We have not yet been invited to their facility to see how the dogs live or to inspect their teeth. We know from the records we received that one month the dog’s teeth could be rated excellent by one handler when blood was being drawn and the next month they had been down-graded. Apparently, they were not up to date with their vaccinations either. Is this the case with the remaining greyhounds? We may learn someday.

NGAP's Stance on Greyhound Blood Donation

My vet is highly involved with Grayhound rescue and even owns them. Every time I take one of mine in I'll be guaranteed to see at least one in the waiting room. Just one more reason to love him and his practice.

After watching the news story and reading the article I have even more questions. They are saying that the dog was only used once for a transfusion but that is suspect at this time. Dogs that are used for transfusions need to be large breed and healthy. Why did the owner want it PTS in the first place? Now she's taken it back even though she wanted it PTS 6 months ago? :confused: Where's it going to end up now?

I imagine the owner wanted it killed because of some biting or behavior problem or maybe it was arthritic or who knows but likely the poor baby didn't have anything he could pass alone in his blood but maybe he did. Maybe she was ill or her child was in the hospital critically injured in ICU - who knows why she couldn't stay. Maybe she was crying so hard she would have upset the dog to the max as he breathed his last and thought he shouldn't leave this earth seeing her totally losing it.

If the vet is that depraved that he would involuntarily and fraudulently fail to euthanize and purposefully use another person's dog in this way without permission given, he's depraved enough to "save" another dog's life with tainted blood - who knows. If that poor donor was ill or in pain and should have been put down for his own good and he used him anyway, that's beyond cruel. I'd throw the book at him and his staff that were in the know.

This is a much more informative article!
 

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfa...accused_of.php

Weatherford attorney Jim Eggleston is, at the moment, standing in Fort Worth, watching the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic. A cop is stationed out front, guarding the door. Additional officers are inside, as are investigators with the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and representatives of the Humane Society of North Texas. They've been in there for two hours.
Eggleston is in Fort Worth on behalf of clients, Jamie and Marian Harris of Aledo, who filed a complaint last week with the state alleging that their dog, which they were told had been euthanized, was being kept alive as a source of blood transfusions.

The claim sounds nuts, Eggleston admits, like something from "Little Shop of Horrors," but he says their suspicions are well-grounded. The family had agreed in October to euthanize Sid, their 5-year-old, 175-pound Leonberger, after learning of a congenital spine defect from the vet, Lou Tierce

Seven months later, they were alerted to Sid's continued existence by a vet tech who told them about the blood transfusions and other mistreatment of animals. The Harrises, according to the Star-Telegram, immediately stormed the clinic, fetched their dog, and took them to another veterinarian.

"He could not find a blood vein on this dog," Eggleston says. "There was evidence this dog has been bled -- a lot."

The results aren't conclusive, but Eggleston says an MRI and an exam by the second vet suggest the dog does not, in fact, have a congenital spine defect.

So, Tierce allegedly lied to the family about euthanizing their dog. Whether the family can definitively prove that their dog was bled and mistreated depends on what investigators find in the clinic, Eggleston says.

So far, investigators haven't said much, announcing only that they'll be removing two or three dogs as "evidence." Attempts to reach Tierce, who's apparently inside the clinic with investigators, were unsuccessful.

Dear goodness in heaven!!!!!!!!! That bunch of crumbs are lower than rats!

Yup and it also explains all of my previous questions too. :mad: :thumbdown

This is one of the worst things I've ever read.

It sounds like the vet wanted the dog for his blood and lied to the family to get it.

I hope he rots in hell.

A while back now I saw a show about dogs where an owner took in her very large-breed dog monthly(?) to give lie there and blood for however long it took and of course, she was paid for it. I think he was "rested" or something like that after a few months before he went back to donating again. He was said to have saved many lives of other dogs for his "heroism". His owner said he was so big and low-key he never even flinched or reacted when they stuck in the needle and he was indeed her "hero". She was very proud of him and happy for the dogs who lived because of him. And I doubt she failed to enjoy the attention and thanks she got from the approving staff of the clinic. They seemed to love her and the big-guy dog.

I was sick to my stomach. I know my dog's life could one day depend on another owner allowing their dog to be a blood donor but I couldn't ever allow my dog to go through that. I just couldn't do it.

And that horrible vet using that poor dog with such depraved indifference to his animal dignity and rights as a living being to have a decent life free from pain, undue confinement and freedom from repetitive fear; and to completely ignore his owner's wishes and hopes for her big baby's rights to death over the total lack of a quality life, to defraud and disregard his family in the underhanded and debased way he has, should lose his veterinarian's license and never be allowed to work with animals again in this state.

OMG!! Sick to my stomach!!

I hope people realize that just because a person has DVM or MD or some other combination of letters after their name it is by no means a statement of their ethical outlook or activities. Far too many people entrust their own lives and the lives of their loved ones to people who are of very questionable character with very possibly a very limited knowledge base as well.

It is up to each one of us to do our own investigation the people we entrust our health and welfare to. How many times have you heard people say during an interview of someone who had known the perpetrator of a crime that they never would have suspected that the person would do such a thing?

What an absolute disgrace...