The Un-thinkable Happens!

LEROY

It is a sad day for us here....we lost a 4 legged member of our family last night. He was loved alot around here.

Leroy was a 6 month old black lab that Jason adopted from animal control to be a hunting dog. It was justs to much here with three dogs so we convinced Jason's mom to foster/adopt him. Well....he slowly became less of a hunting dog and more of a spoiled house dog....but he was loved alot by all of us. He spent most of his time with Lisa, but when she was traveling he would stay here with us.

He went in for a routine neuter on wednesday.....and his heart stopped. They got his heart started again and he started breathing again....but he couldn't do much else. We didn't know that this could happen to a dog during a spay or neuter....if we would, we probably wouldn't have done it. Also, for those who are reading this and are in Rock Springs, this all happened at Desertview Animal Hospital. To add insault to injury....everyone (except one girl) was rude and very uncaring. He needed 24 hour care as he couldn't do anything but lay there and breath and they wouldn't stay with him. They made Lisa take him home and watch him all night then bring him back the next day. No one should have to see their family memeber like this, let alone be responsible for taking care of him, because the hospital doesn't want to. He spent two days and almost two nights like this but he just couldn't fight anymore.

We have all decided not to ever return to this vet, we would rather take our animals to SLC then to be treated the way we were. So, think next time before you take your animal in for a routine procedure......things can happen.....and quite possibly....no one there will care!