I just want to say that my 10 months old rabbit died the day after being neutered at Vets4Pets (Pets at Home). At 5:00 am of the day after the surgery, we noticed that after we placed him in his cage,... Read More
I just want to say that my 10 months old rabbit died the day after being neutered at Vets4Pets (Pets at Home). At 5:00 am of the day after the surgery, we noticed that after we placed him in his cage, taking step-by-step all post-operative care recommendations included in the letter they sent us a few days before the neutering, turned out he never moved an inch, never ate a thing or drank a single drop of water (the vets told us that if this ever happened we should bring him back to them ASAP to be checked). At the moment we checked him, we found out that his intestines were hanging out his bum, coming through his open surgical wounds. We carried him immediately to Vets Now and either the nurse and the vet who attended him that morning were stunned after seeing the rabbit€s condition. The vet told us that the bunny was in shock already and, even though she could try to do her best to relocate his intestines in a emergency surgery, the chances that the animal had for survival were €too slim, almost non-existing€ (because his intestines were hanging out for too long already, plus they were probably contaminated), that the best to do was the euthanasia in order to avoid aimless suffering for the animal. After putting him to sleep, they took a photo and drafted a report to be sent to the vet who castrated him as first thing in the morning. Later on (@10:00 am), Vets4Pets€ (Pets at Home) receptionist phoned us to see how the rabbit was doing, she didn€t know a single thing of what happened that early morning (that the rabbit had died) because NOTHING was logged in her system; she apologised and she said that she would ask the vets straight away. After a couple of minutes, she phoned us back and said that turned out they had that report from Vets Now since early morning, but, that the Vets (for some reason) never passed it down to reception (who knows why), finally she said they€d call us back soon. At 7:00 pm we had a phone call from one of the vets who apparently attended our rabbit during his neutering, and she apologised and said that probably the rabbit while nibbling the stitches out he could have pulled his intestines out by accident, this -honestly- doesn€t have any sense for us since we investigated a lot and that€s nothing likely to happen (not to say it shouldn€t happen) after castrating a rabbit. It€s too hard for us to tell this story over and over again to our friends and family and now here; we suffered a lot because this should never happened in the first place, and we really wish to have had someone who could have warned us about how the vets would do their job, even considering we€re talking about a €simple€ and €quick€ surgery as neutering (as the vet told us it was supposed to be). Definitely, I would never ever bring a pet to this place to be neutered. Read Less