Where would you file a complaint against a veterinarian? - Page 4

You do know that a one year rabies vaccine and a three year are the same vaccine don't you? It's another little hidden up-charge because if you ask for a three year they know they will probably lose you for a couple of visits and money is lost. Kind of like the Science Diet push. Vet students are given free food by the Hill's company while they attend med school for I believe, 3 pets. Free food for the whole time they are in school and special kickbacks for promoting all of the Hill's specialty diets after they graduate. And really when you get down to it, most of our dogs are over vaccinated, which a titer test will prove. It is a bit expensive but in the long run probably better for the animal.



THis is sadly true.A good friend of mine is a vet and i worked with her.She told me about the 1 and 3 year rabies.It is just a way to make $$. THe Scince diet people are relentless as well.When i worked at the vet clinic the damn rep would always piss me off by comeing up to me and saying" I see you haven't put what you want for your dog on the list.You know it is free" I told him I don't care if it is free...I don't care if you were paying me to take it.....I don't feed that crap to my dogs!!! That is one of the reasons vets sell it.They get it for free and can feed their pets. Vets aren't to keen on what is a good food for your dogs. I learned that when they would always send a client to me with questions of food and what is good. Pretty sad that a vet doesn't know about nutrician....then again if animals were actually healthy that would put them out of business!! lol

I don't think the question here is whether or not dogs should be vaccinated or whether or not there are good or bad vets.  The decision of whether or not a dog is to be vaccinated is the owners, period,  regardless of hospital policy, plain and simple.  Having been told by the owner NOT to vaccinate the dog, they overstepped their bounds or they made a mistake, either way, trying to cover it up by saying "hospital policy" is just more  happy horseshit hooey on the part of the hospital, and only compounds the problem.

You can send a complaint to the state veterinary board.  You can fax it to them.  I don't know that it will do anything, but I would definetly do that to have it on record.

You can post a review of the veterinarian on  the internet using "Yelp.com" and on "Yellow Pages.com".  I think a lot of people when looking for services read those reviews and would find your experience helpful when considering the veterinary office in question.

Thank you Sue, for understanding the point of the thread.

Jenni, I had a reverse situation once. I had sent a bitch with my ex to be vaccinated for rabies, among other miscellaneous things. A couple months later I bred her. WELL. She had a litter in the house, and one day an idiot mail carrier stuck her arm in through the door to drop the mail rather than using the mail chute....who knows why...and the dog nailed her on the hand. OK. So it's reported as an UNPROVOKED bite (holy crap), and they tell me that since the dog had no up to date rabies vaccination, she had to be removed from her litter and put in county lockup for three weeks. GREAT. The litter had to be weaned at 2 weeks of age all because some dingbat vet FORGOT to do the rabies shot. BOY was I furious!!!!

"Vets aren't to keen on what is a good food for your dogs. I learned that when they would always send a client to me with questions of food and what is good."

What?

They aren't too keen on what is good food for your dogs, so they send them to you?  LOL, uh, did you mean to say that?

Otherwise, those two sentences contradict each other.

I agree with you exactly:

"I still think they should SEEK permission to vaccinate, as they do with humans. Also, for sure, the tech is guilty of not informing me there COULD POSSIBLY be an issue w/my instructions and "hospital policy." I think the vet should at least call and ask anything that might have been unclear before making executive decsions about MY DOG. .... But as long as we still pretend to be a free country, client wishes need to be respected, especially when they are in line with the law, and when the suggested procedure is against AVMA policy."

The State Veterinary Board.

I filed on the butcher that killed my Barli, he was reprimanded and had to go to a couple of classes.  Whoop di doo.
I should have filed a small claims on the bastard.  He never even said he was sorry and he sure cashed the check.

How is it contradicting? I was a tech...the vet didn't know much about what food are good for dogs....only the prescription ones so yes they would have the client talk to me.What is so hard to understand about that?

And Jenni you are right to be pissed. The vet doesn't have the right to just go and vax your dog. We couldn't even do something as simple as a nail trip unless the client signed for it. So do due something as a vaccine...that really isn't up to them.All they can say is your pup is due for shots and they are to mark it down in your file that you were made aware of what was needed but declined.
Just like with taking your kid to the Dr they can't just do what THEY think needs to be done.You have to sign papers oking procedures.It is just common sense...then again that isn't too common!!

OMG, VomMarischal, that is HORRIBLE!!! I can't believe they wouldn't make an exception. Just goes to show how the best interest of the animal is NOT top priority!

Unprovoked....interesting that they call sticking your arm in a home "unprovoked."

Every other place I've been I had to sign that I was declining certain vaccines. I guess that's why I was totally stunned about this .

Vaccinating a dog with a compromised immune sustem is contrary to instructions on the label of vaccines.

Doing so without permission is unconscionable. It would be roughly comparable to taking a dog in for a flea bath and returning to find that your pet has been castratied  as prophylaxis for testicular cancer!!

When you signed an agreement  to have your dog treated, were the costs of vaccines included on the estimate?

Complain to your State Board of Veterinary Examiners.