Trying really, really hard to keep my cool...

[texasgirl]

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When it comes down to the end of her treatment, right before she goes home. Ask to have all of her medical history, it's yours and you have every right to have it. That should contain the day she came in originally (when she got parvo from the other puppies) and it will also have her entire parvo treatment.
Document that the doctor and technician had both admitted to the dogs having parvo in the same area as she was.
You don't necessarily have to hire a lawyer, but at least get into contact with one and know your rights and where they went wrong. If you can find an attorney that deals with some animal law then that would be great.
I hope at the very very least you are able to get the treatment "comped" and after this is all said and done with would be worth it (to me) to go the extra distance to a new doctor. I'd have very little faith in them after all of this.

 

[Cara]

Thanks a lot for the advice. We will never take any of our dogs in there again, the virus is probably everywhere. We will use the vet my husband uses for large animals, and in emergencies when we can't get hold of him we'll have to take them 100 miles+. I just can't trust their judgement after this. We had a dog last year that was sent home with bloat, and twisted her gut and died soon after. I put that down to the fact that they can't always be right, but after this episode i'm not risking them hurting a third.

 

[ILoveJoe]

You shouldn't need a lawyer to take them to civil court. KEEP records of everything, no matter how insignificant it may seem. Get copies of all medical records, papers from the breeder you got Maggie from, keep records of what happened and on what dates, keep names of any person you spoke to at the vets office and time/date what they said.
I watch ALOT of Judge Mathis. I LOVE him!
You shouldn't have any out of pocket expenses except the snake bite treatment.

 

[KierBri]

soooo.....how is she?

 

[buck-wild-chick]

Parvo = isolation

 

[Cara]

She came home on Saturday afternoon, and thank God made a full recovery. There was an interesting atmosphere when the vet presented us with a bill...

 

[DawnSuiter]

I'm so sorry.

As has been said, it's totally irresponsible at a minimum for your vet to do this. Although I've never had to gown up to enter an isolation ward, we were always extremely careful and only needed to gown if we were interacting with the dogs in ANY way.

My pup caught parvo from it's original home. If your at all knowledgable about needles & giving injections & can prove so to your vet, you can offset costs often times by administering treatment at home.

I would report your vet to AAHA and if they are NOT a member, then i would not go to that vet.

 

[Cara]

Maggie had had one shot administered by a vet when she was 5 weeks old, and we gave her the other two. According to the vet (which doesn't count for much!), the vaccines bought at feedstores do not protect against the most recent strains of Parvo.

 

[mylilchix]

Oh please tell me after all of this the vet didn't make you pay anything! Since it was their error, they should suck up the charges IMO.

Sonja

 

[texasgirl]

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Although I think that vet is a total quack, it is true about the parvo. Parvo is like the flu in humans, there are so many strains and it is constantly evolving and changing. There is a newer strain down in Florida that I have heard is keeping dogs in iso for over a month and still killing them.
I'm glad she made a full recovery