did you have her sign anything acknowledging that the kitten was under medical care when she took it? any thing that might cover your assets in regards to her prior awareness of the existing illness? Emails regarding the injuries? anything she responded to that you can use to show that she was aware of the injuries before taking the kitten home will help you, also, if she does show you legit vet bills, arrange to meet with the vet, armed with the previous vets info and treatments, and get her vet to state whether she was still treating appropriately or not.... (if they can determine that, chances are good they cant)
Sadly, you may have done everything right, and so may she have done. I had a cat electrocuted by powerlines many years ago, it took a full two weeks for the exit injury to appear, but one day, while still at the vets (thankfully) a whole section of his back leg just suddenly sloughed off! muscle tissue, and skin! They were amazed and upset cause they didnt even know the injury was there! We had all been focusing on his poor little nose which was where the voltage went IN. The leg was were it came out, over a much larger area. It is possible, that since your kitten bit a wire, the electricity did a similiar thing, killing the tissue around the mouth, and no amount of antibiotics can reanimate dead tissue, but it takes a while for the body to isolate and then 'shed' that kind of injury, so it is possible that a whole section of his mouth just slid off, and gave the look of 'Rotting'. Electrical wounds are really random and hard to predict.
She may have followed the regimin you gave her to the letter, and this injury was going to occur regardless. Or she may not have followed it, and aggravated an existing condition. Either way, YOU are not really liable, IF you can prove that she knew the animal had a pre-existing condition before she took it home! If she administerd even one medication, then technically she knew the animal was sick when she accepted care of it. No lawyer is going to touch this, it will fall to small claims court, and a he said/ she said. print and review every email, highlight relevent conversations, and breathe easy.
She accepted the care of a sick animal, she accepted liability. Now you have to prove that. THAT is your only focus. Unless you want the animal back. That opens a whole other can of worms.
Good Luck!
Sadly, you may have done everything right, and so may she have done. I had a cat electrocuted by powerlines many years ago, it took a full two weeks for the exit injury to appear, but one day, while still at the vets (thankfully) a whole section of his back leg just suddenly sloughed off! muscle tissue, and skin! They were amazed and upset cause they didnt even know the injury was there! We had all been focusing on his poor little nose which was where the voltage went IN. The leg was were it came out, over a much larger area. It is possible, that since your kitten bit a wire, the electricity did a similiar thing, killing the tissue around the mouth, and no amount of antibiotics can reanimate dead tissue, but it takes a while for the body to isolate and then 'shed' that kind of injury, so it is possible that a whole section of his mouth just slid off, and gave the look of 'Rotting'. Electrical wounds are really random and hard to predict.
She may have followed the regimin you gave her to the letter, and this injury was going to occur regardless. Or she may not have followed it, and aggravated an existing condition. Either way, YOU are not really liable, IF you can prove that she knew the animal had a pre-existing condition before she took it home! If she administerd even one medication, then technically she knew the animal was sick when she accepted care of it. No lawyer is going to touch this, it will fall to small claims court, and a he said/ she said. print and review every email, highlight relevent conversations, and breathe easy.
She accepted the care of a sick animal, she accepted liability. Now you have to prove that. THAT is your only focus. Unless you want the animal back. That opens a whole other can of worms.
Good Luck!
