It shouldn't happen at a vets.

chris_n_tj

Patience understanding and compassion are the key words here. Of course most Veterinary practice staff members have these qualities. it’s the minority that don’t. Its these people that give the rest a bad name.
My dog feels safe at the Vets he just lifts his paw up for a blood test, and sits quiet while blood is taken. No struggling, just a calm environment which is just how it should be. Of course some animals will fight, but a good Vet should be able to deal with this in a quiet manner.
Chris n TJ

Loopy_Girl

pinkshoes wrote: »

I have a little inside information on this, and the BBCs tactics in getting footage was far from professional (downright dirty to be precise)!

I did watch it and it seemed to be the usual to me...person wired up for day to day contact. Can you eloborate on your comment further as I am curious.

At the end of the day, any decent person knows that this is not a daily occurance in every vets practice.

It's not nice and but I am comfortable that this isn't widespread in the industry and the programme did make it clear that there was no case of cruelty witnessed.

xsunnysuex

I couldn't watch this program when it was aired. But I did record it to watch later. Reading the comments on this thread, I'm not going to watch it. It would break my heart to see any animal mistreated.

paddypaws101

Lets hope folks vote with their feet and hit this chain where it hurts....in the till!

aliasojo

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

...... the programme did make it clear that there was no case of cruelty witnessed.

Cruelty is a subjective term. The programme would have gone by the legal definition of cruelty I assume, which talks of 'deliberate' and malicious' intent.

As much as I deplore the actions of certain staff, I can accept their intent was neither of those. However the broad sense of the word cruelty to most of society means causing unnecessary pain or suffering. Imo, that was very much in evidence.

Hintza

Personally I thought the BBC had really struggled to find examples of bad practice and blew it all out of proportion.

Although some scenes were possibly distressing to some, animals are unpredictable and a bit of wrestling might ensue.

The guy hitting the dog on the head was naughty and the company didn't try to duck that one.

ninky_2

i stopped watching after the bit where the guy had hit the dog. whilst i think the bits selected to show were clearly unacceptable i actually felt relieved they hadn't found worse - maybe it got worse after the bit i saw?

i don't think this programme shows you are going to get worse treatment at medivet than any other vet since they didn't go undercover in any other vets to compare. maybe some other vets practices are even worse than this?

i hope it encourages medivet to change the practice of using unqualified staff in unsupervised situations to take bloods etc. that said, diabetics etc have to learn how to inject themselves so not having a qualification doesn't necessarily mean you can't do the proceedure. but it would be best practice to make sure they have it.

i don't think medivet are unique in overcharging customers or playing the pet insurance gravy train. there are also lots of unhealthy relationships between vets and pet food companies etc.

Mojisola

ninky wrote: »

i hope it encourages medivet to change the practice of using unqualified staff in unsupervised situations to take bloods etc. that said, diabetics etc have to learn how to inject themselves so not having a qualification doesn't necessarily mean you can't do the proceedure. but it would be best practice to make sure they have it.

Injecting yourself is a very different thing to taking blood. Diabetics aren't expected to draw their own blood samples!

Stephb1986_2

I am absolutly disgusted by how some of the animals were treated. That poor dog that had had it's leg amputated and that moron wrestling it touching where it's leg had just been amputated that must of really hurt that poor animal. It did not need wrestling like it was why not try the soft approach?? That lad should of been sacked.

As for playing with the cats whilst they are sedated is beyond me.

If any of them were my pets and I seen them in such distress like that I would be marching down to that vets and giving them what for. How dare they mistreat another animal like that. Calling them names like sh it head ect ect.

That poor dog that had one of it's pads cut because some foolish girl caught them in the cage door.

I thought being in that proffession your supposed to care about the animals I didn't see any of that on that programme.

I felt so sad when that dog died I nearly cried they didn't try hard enough to save it.

Luckily I'm up north so I don't have any of them near me. I really do hope that people vote with their feet and I really do hope that it closes them down.

Steph xx

ninky_2

Mojisola wrote: »

Injecting yourself is a very different thing to taking blood. Diabetics aren't expected to draw their own blood samples!

out of interest, what are the rules on who can take human blood samples? how much training is needed and what qualifications?