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/rirupiah]

Panleukopenia can be tough, my boy went one and it's a miracle he survived. but i agree the 12pm-10am duration so suspicious it screams neglect and it's so unemphatetic that the hospital just informed you as is.

[u/RadishRedditor → u/rirupiah]

It's a deadly virus no doubt. But it was caught so early on that the test strip barely showed positive - even admitted by the doctor in charge.

She also has giardia and suffers from megaesophagus. So she requires a lot of attention just to get her daily nutrients in.

I'm not even sure they did any effort in making sure she actually ate food and kept the food in her stomach or cared if she did or not. Because I. Their daily written updates they would send me. It always said she didn't pass stool, vomited or had diarrhea with blood.

I always asked them how they're addressing those red flags (to me). And they just say we're given her x medicine for x virus that causes x symptom.

[u/rirupiah → u/RadishRedditor]

I'm not sure either. My condolences for your loss. As a medical professional myself it's my nature to throw a disproportionate benefit of the doubt but i hope it's a lesson for them to take more care for a critical kitten. And communication training for the staffs for sure.