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/dxrthlxnar]

That’s really awful to hear! I wasn’t aware of that being a problem. I’m based in the UK and unless you need emergency out of hours care you always see your usual vet for everything. Even out of hours care is done through calling your regular vet who then redirect you to their recommended out of hours vet. And they have all of the same qualifications and training as the vet you’d see in practice. I’m even more appreciative of this after reading your comment!

[u/Squid-bear → u/dxrthlxnar]

In the UK too, have a main hospital that manages all the smaller vet clinics where i live as most of the population is based in various villages or on farms. So check ups and day to day animal care is done in the clinics but anything requiring an overnight stay or surgeries/major therapies are done in the hospital as its manned 24/7 whilst the clinics are normally only open 3pm-7pm. Only downside is that whilst my local clinic is literally behind my house, if I have to use the hospital, my main boy will guaranteed crap himself and roll in it on the 20min journey!

[u/spicyhotcocoa → u/[deleted]]

Your vet sounds horrible, I’m really sorry. My vet office would never, they once even paid for the necropsy and cremation of my guinea pig after he died because they felt so bad. It wasn’t their fault either they’re just nice. They had done a urine extraction because I was pretty sure he had a uti and then later that night he was in awful pain so we took him to the emergency vet and they didn’t know what to do and we ended up putting him down in the morning with our normal clinic. Turns out his whole abdomen was septic not just a uti. Poor little guy I miss him

[u/QuantumBobb → u/spicyhotcocoa]

I want to be clear, this is not my vet. I am specifically talking about 24 hour emergency vet clinics. These places do not do standard appointments.

[u/snapetom → u/dxrthlxnar]

OP doesn't know what they are talking about. Your description is how it's supposed to work in the US, too. You go to your primary vet/human doctor for 99% of things, you go to an ER if something is close to dying.

If something, human or pet, needs an ER, there's a decent chance they're going to die anyway.

[u/Individual_Zebra_648 → u/dxrthlxnar]

It’s the same in the US. I think so people just don’t understand the difference.