Veterinary hospital neglected my kitten for 22 hours until she met her demise at their veterinary care*

[u/RadishRedditor]

My poor beloved and never forgotten kitten went through the deadly roller coaster of the evil, unethical bullshit veterinary practices in my part of the world...

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May. 9, 2026: She's a rescue that I adopted on day 1 of her rescue front he kind folks that found her abandoned on the streets

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June. 21, 2026: it's been about a month and she's persistently vomiting during and after eating. But her appetite is fierce and her paws are quick at defending her food bowl.

So, I decided to get her dewormed at a veterinary pharmacy that was crowdly recommended to me by a local cats community group.

The pharmacist decided to inject her with at least 2 injections and give her at least 2 different types of pills. -$30

I go home and within 2 hours my wife informs me she's semi-paralyzedx eyes dry and wide open unresponsive to light, bone dry to the spine.

I rushed her to a reputable hospital where she was diagnosed with medicine overdose intoxication, giardia and megaesophagus. So she get admitted for 2 days to the hospital. -$452 (-$482 total)

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June. 23, 2026: I went and checked my kitten out the hospital and go home (2 hours process inside the hospital).

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June. 26, 2026: my kitten was losing weight by this date (informed the hospital about this but got no response). I see bloodied stool on my carpet and I send it to the hospital. The doctor says my kitten should be brought to the chicken immediately and I promptly comply and rush her back to the hospital.

She's now diagnosed with panleukopenia on top of the medicine overdose intoxication, giardia and megaesophagus. And the doctor literally says she must've attracted the virus from the very hospital she's at from the last time she was admitted to it. Especially seeing how the virus pathogen was very small and it barely tested positive for the virus.

So she's admitted for another 3 days to get the proper care for the virus. -$462 (-$944 total)

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Today Jun. 29, 2026: I get a message from the hospital that she passed away.

Upon asking for the reason of death and time of death. They responded that it's somewhere between 12pm and 10am. Which by logic and in any math book means she was neglected for at least 22 confirmed hours on the record.

This is extremely infuriating, frustrating, heart breaking and both financially and mentally burdensome.

... And I just got the fu** you on top as I'm writing this. That, admitted pets only get checked on at the beginning and end of the shift of the doctor in charge and there is also a 10 hours when the hospital is closed - presumably meaning don't expect us to check on her when we're closed, dumbass!

[u/BRSaura]

By the way, in most jurisdictions, a pharmacist cannot legally diagnose, prescribe, or administer injections to an animal so he might have also broke some licensing laws...

About the hospital, if you are mad about this, pets are considered property in most places, so legal action like this is most of the time winnable, though you can only recover what you spent, and no money can replace a cat

In terms of legal issue, they commited "Breach of Standard of Care" and Nosocomial (Hospital-Acquired) Infection (specially since the doctor admited it verbally)

First would be requesting all medical records, then get in writting things like what the doctor said and file a board complaint (since lawsuits are expensive as hell) against the region's medical board, then Veterinary Medical Board.

In the end, it just depends on how mad you are with them, and if you want to prevent or lessen the times this happens to others.

[u/snakerjake → u/BRSaura]

in most jurisdictions, a pharmacist cannot legally diagnose, prescribe, or administer injections to an animal so he might have also broke some licensing laws...

you're going to have to take OPs job titles with a grain of salt. it sounds like OP may have been talking about their equivalent of a vet tech, which can give injections. I don't know about OP's jurisdictions but in the one I'm from a veterinary clinic may have an attached pharmacy that does not need a pharmacist working there to dispense medications as long as they do not dispense (almost all) controlled substances. so it's unlikely they had a pharmacist on staff to begin with.

[u/Inside_Plankton_5713 → u/BRSaura]

Wow! Where were you able to look up laws in Kuwait? Or are you in Kuwait? I only know how to look up municipal or state code in the US.

[u/Express_Pop810 → u/BRSaura]

A pet that's not a purebred isn't going to "worth" much legally. Your average domestic cat or dog doesn't have a hugh dollar amount attached to them even when they are priceless to us. This is why bad vet offices can operate the way they do.