Massey's Utilisation & Exit Plan for Harry

BREAKING UPDATE (March 1, 2026):

A formal criminal report has been filed with the New Zealand Police (OR-2484821N) regarding the manual falsification of clinical and financial records by Massey University's Companion Animal Hospital (and possibly also other) staff.

The complaint includes evidence of a manual "data scrub" performed on December 3, 2025, which erased key timestamps to obstruct auditing and investigations.

The police have been requested to secure the unredacted digital audit trails to identify all parties involved in the tampering.

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Clinical Documentation: Null-and-Void 'Euthanasia' Authorisation

(Staff: Dr Stephanie Rigg)

Below: The null-and-void "authorisation" for the "euthanasia" that turned out to actually have been a pre-planned chemical destruction of the evidence of Massey staff's repeated  catastrophic convenience sedation overdosing and cruel, abusive "teaching tool" utilisation i.e. my precious little Harry himself being the evidence that needed to be destroyed.

PET OWNERS: YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE WHY I TOLD YOU NOT TO MISS THIS ARTICLE.

Readers following the coverage of my attempts to get to the bottom of what happened to my beloved little papillon, Harry, with whom I was extraordinarily closely bonded, will know that:

(A) The rot in Massey University’s Companion Animal “Hospital” (CAH) runs deep. 

(B) Honesty and transparency is not their policy. Denial, dismissal, stonewalling, legal threats and intimidation are.

(C) Animals aren’t safe there, with cruelty embedded in “care”, and your property (as your pet legally is) not considered your property at all, as far as Massey, its CAH staff and management are concerned. Your pet is theirs; to do with as they please, according to their mindset and their modus operandi. And if that involves catastrophic levels of unauthorised, contraindicated, convenience sedation to facilitate their use of your pet in monetised student video collections (including on private cell phones, and to which you will be given no access), this too, according to Massey, is its own God-given right and “best practice” Standard Operating Procedure. 

(D) “Informed Consent” has a very different meaning in the Massey playbook to that which is generally deemed its accepted definition.

(E) “Accountability” is a foreign concept and not one with which they have any intention of becoming acquainted. 

(F) Laws – including those governing animal welfare, property conversion and more – are not only optional, in Massey’s case, they simply don’t apply. In fact, they appear blissfully ignorant of them according to my (and Harry's) experience.

You know all that.

You’ve read about it here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here and in most of my other now 30+ articles covering the numerous different sub-atrocities within the overall atrocity that was the demise and disposal of my precious little Harry.

Actually, "atrocious" doesn't come anywhere near to being an adequate adjective. Despite having been a professional writer since I was 16 and having upwards of 25 published books under my belt, I don't actually have an adjective that's adequate for the pure evil that was perpetrated upon Harry . . . and, by extension, me. There is not one word or one phrase that can sufficiently convey the depth and breadth of the sheer, unadulterated wickedness that festers without restraint within the walls of Massey University's Companion Animal "Hospital".

What you, my readers (or those of you not on Massey's massive legal team payroll) didn’t yet know – because I didn’t yet know – is that record and evidence tampering (which, for any other New Zealand citizen would attract jail time of up to 10 years under the Crimes Act 1961 Section 258 (Altering document with intent to deceive) or Section 260 (Falsifying registers), and/or a $10,000 fine under the Privacy Act Section 212(2)(b) - appears also to be included in the “we’re exempt” culture of Massey and its veterinary “hospital” staff.

Note to Readers: 

The above laws aren't some hypothetical, bottom-drawer, dusty old legal tracts in archaic library textbooks.

They're real, "living" laws that apply to every individual in our country. And today, they are being made to apply to Dr Stephanie Rigg and her "colleagues" who falsified Harry's records to create a cover-up of what they did to him . . . and to me.

I will, duly, see Dr Rigg and her associates in Court.

Dissecting the Cover-Up: Massey’s Metadata of Deception

But back to what readers do know for a moment:

You’ll know that I’ve been in the battle of battles for the past two months to extract Harry’s full records (or anything approaching them) from Massey’s Legal and Governance department. 

HOWEVER . . . there was one thing I hadn’t known how to decipher that they actually had finally drip-fed to me. It was File Name: Patient Change Log (Field-Level Audit).

I’ve been learning a lot about veterinary science, record-keeping, and law in general lately. Not because I wanted to. But because if you want to figure out how deep the rot really runs at Massey, you kind of have to. 

So I’ve learned a bit about how to decipher clinical metadata. Just enough to realise that this Patient Change Log (Field-Level Audit) is exactly where the digital fingerprints of a cover-up are hiding.

Despite the fact that this document has as much redacted as it shows (probably more), with ALL staff names and positions blacked out, for example -I still found four distinct “smoking gun” entries in these otherwise heavily-redacted metadata logs.

BIG. FAT. SMOKING. GUNS. that amounted to one undeniable overall conclusion:  This document isn’t a clinical record so much as it’s a literal crime scene. 

There were already so many dodgy inconsistencies in the few items I'd managed to pull out of Massey to that point (as I've documented in various of my preceding articles). But this document is where, undeniably, the bodies are buried. You just need to know which clod of dirt to look under.

Hidden in Plain Sight . . . In A Little Thing Called the Metadata
(That the Average Pet Owner Wouldn't Even Know Existed)

There are four hidden but key findings demonstrating that the entire timeline of Harry’s “experience” in that hellhole were was orchestrated, and the sudden "neurological event/decline" exit strategy planned for him were a total fabrication.

And that fabrication had a start time.  (For this start time we will initially revert our focus back to Massey's previously-supplied "Clinical Summary" (in all its dodginess) . . . We will then lead from the immediately below into the afore-mentioned "Patient Change Log (Field-Level Audit)". Bear with me. I promise not to let this get boring).

Well, one of two start times. Either:

(1)  The 8.38am disconnection of his (with, by-then, the TWO 750% overdoses of the renally contraindicated convenience sedative with which the "crying dog"-sensitive ICU staff had plied him overnight) now life-essential IV fluids (8.5 hours into the prescribed 24-hour protocol that they charged me for).

And/or:

(2)  When the day shift ICU "vet" arrived at 9am and decided a THIRD 750% overdose would be a strategic way do deal with a clearly already massively overdosed little 3.8kg, 15-year-old, dehydrated dog.

Now WHY would any vet take such a decision?

Well, for legal purposes, of course (remembering that the Venerable Dean Jon Huxley and the obviously not- so-new-broom Vice-Chancellor Pierre Venter, have all the money in the public purse to pay their top-tier external legal counsel . . . and by gum, there are enough of the buggers, if this site's analytics are anything to be guided by), I will precede the following by stating that these are my conclusions, made on the basis of the collation and evaluation of the information before me.

That said, what I know of my readers is this:  You are no intellectual slouches. Feel free to let me know if you can come up with any other conclusion from the information (complete with now numerous "receipts") that I have thus far presented, most especially here and here, and most tellingly of all, in today's expose. Remember, though, I held the ultimate evidence in my arms at 6pm on December 1 . . . and, some 45 minutes later, I let them take it (safely, for them)  away from me, just like Harry's (the literal body of evidence) life had just been taken from him.

Little Numerals that Tell A BIG Story

The plan for Harry's manufactured exit is not so much written into the records, as it is revealed by the tampering with the logs. 

They lay bare the lead vet’s apparent plan that his life would come to an abrupt end by the pre-scheduled time of (well, they couldn't quite get consistency in the logs regarding the exact minute, but by the absolute latest time of) 17:00 hours i.e. 5pm . . . assumedly, the end of the day shift on December 1.

Just in time to mark him "Deceased" and seal off the records of this catastrophically overdosed patient, before the next shift came on, saw his records, and someone started asking the immediately necessary, and certainly appropriate, questions.

And those questions would (0R SHOULD) have included, but would certainly not have been limited to:

• How long has this dog been in this state?

• Why hasn't any rescue and remediation protocol been undertaken?

• Why was he given yet ANOTHER administration of 50mg of Gabapentin at 09:00 hours after the preceding two during night shift?

• Why is he disconnected from his IV fluids? Who approved that and why?

• (And if they knew he'd starred in a multi-video student film festival that morning): Was he taken out of his cage and handled in this state?

• When did he last drink? Was he given any food before he entered this near-comatose state?

• Does the owner know of the overdoses and the state he's in?

• Have you filled in an incident report?

• Have any emergency specialists been called in for advice?

• and, no doubt, many more questions.

OR . . . maybe not. It depends if the rot in that ICU is fully immersive, or if it's concentrated on Dr Stephanie Rigg's day shift and the ICU shift staff of the preceding (November 30) night.

But none of those questions could be asked and none of that could happen. The day shift - led by "Dr" Rigg ("Steffi") - wasn't about to let it happen.

Thus, the pre-timestamped, just before end-of-shift, Time of Death entered into the "Euthanasia Authorisation" form that they had all queued up for me long before I ever arrived at that Godforsaken facility that fated December 1 afternoon.

The Lead-Up: From Clinical Error to Digital Fraud

The logs (if you know how to spot telltale inconsistencies) tell a grim story.

The story of a pre-determined outcome - pre-determined, that is, by staff. Not by Harry or his owner.  

Here’s how I'm guessing it went down . . . starting back during the night shift of Novermber 30:

The ICU’s overnight staff, at some belated point, realise they overdid their shutting-that-little-crying-bastard-up-with-a-hit-of-Gabapentin-and-some-Maropitant (x 2) strategy.

They now have one massively overdosed, renally-impaired (being that the kidneys represent the only exit pathway for Gabapentin) dog in one of the cages. They leave it for “Dr” Stephanie Rigg to figure out when day shift starts. They’re off home.

Rigg arrives, completes hand-over, and has an "oh shit" moment.

She quickly recognises that Harry is now a clinical liability. If he wakes up and survives, the hospital has to explain the toxicity and the not one, but two, massive overdoses.

If she starts a rescue protocol, she has to document the overdoses and file an incident report.

So she moves to a relatively easy alternative:

If she continues the sedation, she can "manage" Harry toward a permanent exit . . . all it will involve doing, is manufacturing a “neurological decline” narrative, getting her mate, the neurologist, on board with the ruse, and then somehow convincing Harry’s doting owner of the “reality” of the diagnosis and terrible “prognosis”.

She probably knew that the latter part would be the only really challenging bit . . . but maybe it’s not something that the "hospital" hasn't pulled off plenty of times before when circumstances called for a bit of creative licence.

So she administers another whopping dose of 50mg of Gabapentin to this tiny 3.8kg, still-dehydrated dog (representing a THIRD 750% overdose in its own right, and delivering his kidneys an intended lethal blow). She, or one of her “colleagues”, had already disconnected Harry 22 minutes earlier – at 08:38 hours – just 8.5 hours into his prescribed 24-hour rehydration protocol (that Harry’s owner, I, was, fraudulently billed in full for. As is the Massey way.).

Now, she has achieved two very clever outcomes:

Harry has been converted from a clinical liability to a teaching resource asset (not to concern herself with the fact that she is committing a crime under Section 219 of the Crimes Act 1961 (Theft by conversion).. But that, and the various other legal implications of the many acts perpetrated by the various individuals upon both Harry and I, will be the subject of a little face-time in a Court of law at some point in the medium-term.

I look forward to it. It will be nice to put names to the faces, at last.

Back to the plot:

Gabapentin takes approximately 90 to 120 minutes to reach its peak effect. So she calls the teaching staff and tells them she has the perfect, immobile, chemically-suppressed (pharmaceutically-straitjacketed) dog who will be in a perfectly pliable - and easily filmable state for students and the production of high-value, permanent teaching resources -by around 10.30am i.e. when the third massive (FOR HIM) hit of Gabapentin fully obtunds him, expedited by the fact that he's been off the IV fluids for nearly half an hour already . . . so, he'll be definitely good to go by 10.30am for sure.

Get them students rolling in and them cameras ready to roll!

Then, at 11.40am – either as part of the student-and-“teacher” film festival in which he was the exclusive “star” (including having his head grabbed in a vice-like grip, having cameras trained at close range into his eyes, being held up to the ceiling with one hand, being made to walk in circles while almost collapsing, being held upright with a camera pointed down on him from above while he was collapsing from the torso over sideways . . . and these were just the single “sanitised” stills from each of the eight videos that they claim were all they took . . .I don’t believe them as they clearly looked to have been filmed on selfie and personal cell phones) . . .

 .. . . the “neurologist” arrives to (perform a “neurological examination” on a dog massively over-sedated with a drug that all the international veterinary literature warns mimics neurological and dementia symptomology and warns never to perform a neurological examination on a dog under the influence of Gabapentin (as if that weren’t obvious even to a layperson).

Said neurologist duly “concurs” with Rigg’s intended “neurologically failing” narrative to justify the push for “euthanasia’".

Now the "confirmed" narrative is neatly packaged in the "Clinical Summary" and into the intended script for the planned phone call to the dog's owner and her subsequent in-person arrival.

Neurological Impacts of Gabapentin: From Ataxia through to Coma

"Neurological sequelae following administration of the Gabapentin to patients with renal failure, varying from subtle changes in mental status to drowsiness and coma, have been reported in the literature."

Journal of Renal Hepatic and Biomedical Sciences

"Ataxia [loss of coordination] is a common adverse effect [of Gabapentin]."

MSPCA-Angell Clinical Review

ABOVE:

The notes of the "neurologist" who performed a "neurological" examination on a dog repeatedly, cumulatively, and catastrophically, overdosed with a convenience sedative known to create the exact neurological symptomology she then reports as his natural state . . . neatly aligning with Dr Stephanie Rigg's narrative (i.e. "neurologically failing", for which there was NIL prior evidence per his regular vet's totally contradictory notes i.e. TVG Feliding) and objective (destruction of evidence i.e. Harry).

Framing, Confirming & Utilising . . . While they Wait for the Owner’s UNINFORMED “Consent" to Destroy the Evidence and Close the File

After framing the narrative, optimising the filming opportunities, and having the neurologist confirm the symptoms of Harry’s drug-induced stupor (which they caused) to frame a "neurological decline", Rigg rings the owner (whom the “Clinical Summary” demonstrates Rigg refers to by her surname only i.e. "Kelly") to advise that Harry has "declined" and it’s "time".

Readers who haven’t read the horror story of the prolonged, one-hour, intensive, multi-angle “consulting” room scene can do so here, here , here and here. And if you have the stomach for it, the “euthanasia” that WASN’T “euthanasia” here and here.

And why you should ALWAYS trust your gut when something feels off. There’s a REASON if feels off. Ignoring your intuition can be fatal. And for Harry, ignoring mine was.

And NOW . . . Onto the Patient Change Log (Field-Level Audit) . . . the One Document They Thought I’d Never Have the Nous to Decipher. Well, I DID.

Now, aside from the shocked, stunned, questioning and totally resistant owner, there was one other challenge. They’d worked this one out ahead of time, but it involved some fancy footwork with the records.

So, if they were to avoid the next shift coming on and asking questions about the catastrophically overdosed dog and his IV-disconnected, untreated state, they had to be – quite literally – rid of him before 5pm.

So they typed up his “death certificate” (loooongggg before I arrived and took AGES to get to finally cave in), ahead of time.

Rigg damn well knew - especially after my shocked and stunned state at her phone call of a few hours earlier - that the in-person stage was going to be the marathon psychological manipulation event that it indeed was.

The time they wrote up Harry's intended death for? 4.53pm (the Patient Change Log document and the "Euthanasia Authorisation" form differ).

That, they strategised, would give them the maximum possible time to strong arm that difficult bitch of an owner, “Kelly”, into submission. But - if everything was ready to roll, administratively - the whole thing would be just in time for them to “delete” Harry from the clinic’s active files before the next shift came on. (Interestingly, the logs - see below - would have it that moving from the "consulting" room, out for my Harry-and-Mummy photos, and then getting into and settled in the van, according to said logs, took a total of one minute i.e. 60 seconds i.e. the time of death there is 16.54pm versus the "Euthanasia Authorisation" form's 4.53pm.)

Not to worry that the accepted clinical practice the world over holds that the time of death must be recorded literally, as the time the heart stops beating . . . which in Harry’s case "Dr" Riggs had achieved, by my recollection, by somewhere between 6pm and 6.30pm . . . outside in our little camper van.

What a fucking joke. Except that it WASN'T a joke. It was my precious little boy's life that they had just ended  . . . and, as I was to discover later, for completely clinically unnecessary reasons (because at the right clinic and with the right emergency treatment, he could still have survived what they had done to him).

Read here how he was actually starting to break through the drugging with the Gabapentin . . . in two separate events that "Dr" Rigg laughed off (LITERALLY, she LAUGHED AT HIM) as "just his last hurrah". What a fucking MONSTER.

ABOVE :  The Software Caught the Lie Even When the Humans Didn't

At 7:20 PM, Massey attempted to add further charges to Harry’s bill as I paid it. The "Logs" document refused to approve the transaction because the clinician had already digitally '"killed" (i.e. in the system) Harry 146 minutes earlier.

This is quite literally the financial fingerprint of a fraud in progress - just to add financial insult to moral injury.

Retrospectively, Rigg and Governance Had A Little, Err, Logs Problem. Two, In Fact.

The pre-5pm race to close the file and seal off Harry's digital records with the finalisation of the invoice i.e. before any new staff or supervisors could see the live data, had resulted in a couple of timeline glitches:

The "Log" document reveals that the attempt to "seal" the record resulted in a series of catastrophic administrative collisions. The first of these is the (incorrect) 4.54pm time of death entry.

The second is a subsequent "Discharged" entry (two lines further up, chronologically, in the logs document). In professional veterinary software, a file is closed in one of two ways: a "Deceased" status OR a "Discharge" status. These are mutually exclusive. At 4.54pm, the system recorded the back-dated death entry. Yet, later, a human actor manually added the text "Discharged By:" to the file.

This is the digital signature of a clinician in a state of panic to get the file closed (as either "Deceased" or "Discharged") to avoid anyone going back into a live patient's file.  You cannot discharge a corpse.

By triggering the "Discharge" workflow on a patient already marked as "Deceased", the bad actor created an administrative collision that exposed the fraudulent administrative anchor.

In short, they weren't recording a medical reality; they were slamming every digital exit door available to "evict" Harry from the system before the staff of the next shift would otherwise be accessing the file of a still-living patient.

Erasing the Trail by Erasing Harry's Very Existence

Then, on December 3, two days after Harry’s (unnecessary, wickedly pre-meditated, and highly regrettable) chemically-induced death, the hospital’s Governance and Legal department (or someone up the chain with "God view" access) realised that the 4:54 PM (16:54) timestamp was a liability.

It was a "smoking gun" that could be cross-referenced against phone logs and the 4:53 PM form printing.

So, at 2:44 PM on December 3, that next bad actor i.e. one with high-level access, entered the database and manually overwrote the 16:54 entry with 0:00 (Midnight).

This was a deliberate act of forensic scrubbing: By turning a specific time into a nil value, the institution vaporised the timeline.

"0:00" creates a clinical vacuum that prevents any investigator from syncing the time of death with specific staff movements or medication logs. It is the digital equivalent of shredding a death certificate to ensure no-one can prove who was in the room when the "death" occurred.

The 4:56 PM Billing Inflation

Perhaps the most cynical evidence of the fraud is the 4:56 PM Billing Update.

At 4:56 PM - two minutes after the "official" death - someone manually accessed Billing Trigger #636969 and increased the quantity of a billable item from 1.6 to 4.

The metadata reveals a brazen manipulation of financial data occurring just minutes after the falsified death time. At 4:56 PM,, a manual entry was made to Harry’s bill (Record 636969), jumping the quantity from 1.6 units to 4.0. This represents a 150% increase in billable units - a literal 2.5x multiplier - applied to a patient they had officially declared "Deceased" just two minutes earlier.

This is the very definition of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception. It's the financial fingerprint part of the bigger, badder lie.

You see, contemporaneous billing item logging is the standard practice in New Zealand veterinary practices. Thus, If Harry were genuinely dead at 4:54 PM, then increasing a billable quantity at 4:56 PM would constitute consumer fraud and theft.

You do not charge a corpse for a 2.5 x increase in supplies. Well, unless you're Massey University, that is.

But, actually, the reality was far worse.

The logs show they were still dicking around with the invoicing right up to when I paid the bill at around 7.20pm . . . somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour after I remember the actual  time she finally managed to get me to allow her to stick him and take his life.

Good job, Massey, you bunch of mercenary, unprincipled pricks - from top to bottom. At the same time as I was still being coerced into terminating my dog's life, the hospital’s sole interest in him was (a) getting him out of the viewable system before the end of the shift, and (b) optimising him as a profit centre.

The problem for them now, though, is that the logs show that they forgot to align their greed with their narrative.

The Identity Shield (Consciousness of Guilt)

Every single name and position title in the logs - as with their previously-supplied "Clinical Summary" - has solid black boxes obscuring them.

This is purely and simply an accountability evasion measure i.e. deploying black boxes liberally throughout a patient's records to prevent the identity of (and therefore, they hope, any legal actions being taken against) those whose actions are clinically, morally, and legally, indefensible.

This practice is in contravention of all accepted standards for the veterinary sector, internationally.

I reached out to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (UK) with questions about this and other dodgy practices both of Massey University and of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand (who appear to be doing everything in their power to evade their regulatory duty to investigate Massey over the matter).

I'll elaborate on the response from the executive level of the Royal College in my next article, but with regard to this specific point, they state that there is no justifiable reason for a clinic to withhold the identities of treating veterinarians from a client.

It's clear, even to the layperson, that in terms of the manipulation of the records themselves, by hiding the names of these specific actors within the system, Massey has moved from medical malpractice and malfeasance to an active corporate conspiracy to obstruct justice.

You don't hide the identity of a clinician who followed the rules. You only use the "black box" trick when identifying the actor would lead to the immediate collapse of the institution's defence.

This log-tampering behaviour reveals an institution that manufactured a death time, attempted to "discharge" a deceased patient to hide his catastrophic drug-induced collapse, and then manually scrubbed the digital evidence while padding the bill.

Every black box and timestamp in this log is a documented admission of guilt.

Let's Get Into A Little "Appreciation of the Law" Lecture . . . for the Edification of Massey Clinical & Administrative Staff, and for the University's Legal and Governance Executives (and for You Too, Vice-Chancellor Pierre Venter and Veterinary "School" Dean Jon Huxley)

Under Section 258 (Altering document with intent to deceive), the law doesn't care about "clinical mistakes" (which, by the way, this wasn't, anyway). It cares about intent.

When a Massey staff member with administrative access manually opened Harry’s master file on December 3 (two days after you had killed him) and overwrote his 16:54 (already fudged) death time with “0:00”, they weren't correcting a typo; they were creating a digital "black hole".

This is the textbook definition of altering a record to obtain a pecuniary advantage or cause loss. By "scrubbing" the timeline of death, they attempted to decouple the biological reality of Harry's killing from the possible consequences of a future auditing of his records or investigation of his case and any aspect thereof . . . from clinical decisions and actions through to billing actions.

In the eyes of the Crimes Act, this isn't some innocent "administrative clean-up"; it is a serious indictable, Category 3 offence, punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment.

Additionally, Section 260 (Falsifying registers) specifically guards the integrity of records that are required by law to be accurate - such as the clinical registers Massey is mandated to maintain under the Veterinarians Act.

When the "ICU crew" or their supervisors initiated a later, posthumous "Discharge" workflow for a patient they had already logged as "Deceased", they made a false entry in a professional register with the clear intent to deceive future auditors and bypass the software’s own safety locks. This "Panic Signature" in the metadata - trying to discharge a corpse to clear a shift log - is yet one more digital fingerprint of a cover-up.

In fact, the metadata reveals a multi-stage "panic signature". It began at 16:56 (4:56 PM)  - just two minutes after their falsified death time - when a manual entry jumped a billing quantity from 1.6 to 4.0 units (Record 636969). It reached its conclusion at 19:20 (7:20 PM), when staff were still dicking around with the invoice of a patient they had officially declared dead two and a half earlier. In a professional clinical register, you do not "discharge" a corpse, and you certainly don't spend two and a half hours post-mortem cleaning a record to justify a padded invoice, that should have been calculated in real-time.

For a public institution to then redact the names of the individuals behind these potentially 10-year-penalty offences is, arguably, an act of institutional complicity in the falsification of a professional record.

The Missing Link: The Controlled Drug Register

A further document Massey continues to withhold is the Controlled Drug Register (CDR).

Unlike a progress log, the CDR is a legal ledger that must be balanced milligram-for-milligram.

This will be part of the next information-release battle I initiate with Massey University.

And if you try to alter it, Massey staff, you know exactly what's going to happen. There's only so many criminal prosecutions you're going to want listed on your individual, personal and professional, records.