MPI ‘Investigators’: ‘We’ll Let the Vet Council Call It’

MPI says: "Actually, we’ll do whatever the Veterinary Council tells us to do.”
VCNZ says: "Name the specific veterinarians you wish to complain about."
Massey says: "We are redacting all names."

As the legendary comedian, social critic and actor George Carlin once famously quipped (and may just as well have been warning the New Zealand pet-owning public about the veterinary sector and its “regulatory” machinery):

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

Below my introductory commentary you’ll find my detailed response to the brief, terse four-paragraph “outcome” of the Ministry of Primary Industry’s 10-week “investigation” into breaches of the Animal Welfare Act 1999 by Massey University’s Veterinary ‘Teaching Hospital’ aka Companion Animal ‘Hospital’:

Actually, say the MPI “Investigators”, “We’ll let the Veterinary Council (VCNZ) tell us what they want our findings to be" . . . while the VCNZ's CEO Iain McLachlan is under Law Society investigation for colluding with Massey's Dean Jon Huxley over (what his and Huxley's email exchange strongly suggests) the intention to let Massey tell the Veterinary Council what they want the VCNZ's findings to be . . .

MPI ‘Investigators’: ‘We’ll Let the Vet Council Call It’

Well, that was predictable, wasn’t it?

Ten weeks after their “investigation” began with their receipt of a primary report comprising 342 pages of forensic evidence (including but certainly not limited to photographs and other detailed graphical support), a supplementary 13-page summary of my dog's perfect viability before being admitted into the (as demonstrated by his unnecessarily fatal outcome) dangerously lethal environment of Massey's Companion Animal "Hospital", and nearly 100 other items of evidence and information . . . the two Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) “investigators" have just sent back a four-short paragraph email – essentially saying they’ll let the collusive Veterinary Council call the outcome of their (the MPI’s) supposed “investigation”.

We all know Massey is a huge, powerful, well-funded (including by the taxpayer) institution with power networks and collegial loyalties running through every stream of New Zealand commerce and government agency networks – somewhere at some level.

We all know the reputational stakes of something like the Harry Kelly case are high indeed if genuinely investigated and brought to light – both in terms of individual careers and of the institution’s student (including overseas student) appeal.

But, MPI, you and the other parties determined to keep a lid on it, nonetheless have a job to do . . . as abhorrently uncomfortable to the prevailing powers as the obviously unsavoury revelations would be, if you were to do your job, and do it thoroughly, transparently and ethically.

You have a responsibility to the New Zealand public, the taxpayer, current and potential (both domestic and overseas) students, and most of all – via the MPI's mandate to police the New Zealand Animal Welfare Act 1999 – to protect the animals in Massey’s possession and the privately-owned pets of their fee-paying clientele.

And with the now-revelation that you have joined forces with the “leadership” of Massey and of the Veterinary Council to force-feed the case YOU are mean to be investigating and prosecuting into their demonstrably collusive, conflicted, dead-end “complaints” process, you have re-neged on your statutory and ethical obligation to all of the above stakeholders . . . and most especially to the 64 percent of New Zealand households that own one or more pets . . . and any of those pets that, at any time in their lives, find themselves in the decidedly dubious and dangerous environment of Massey’s Companion Animal “Hospital”.

As the legendary comedian, social critic and actor George Carlin once famously quipped (and may just as well have been warning the New Zealand pet-owning public about the veterinary sector and its “regulatory” machinery), “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

As you will read from the response of the “investigator” appointed to head the “investigation” into Massey as triggered by the Harry Kelly case, 10 weeks and a mountain of evidentiary documentation in, the “outcome” is basically as follows . . . and it demonstrates the closed-loop, self-protectionist, circular, dead-end-by-design landscape of full-blown regulatory capture and procedural evasion that I have been progressively revealing through the now 70+ articles I have produced on the Harry Kelly case.

MPI says: "Actually, we’ll do whatever the Vet Council tells us to do.”
VCNZ says: "Name the specific veterinarians you wish to complain about."
Massey says: "We are redacting all names."

What’s interesting is that – according to a goading anonymous email very obviously from a Massey insider, weeks ago – this was always the intended “outcome” . . . or some other form of “dismissal”.

The anonymous emailer had, across several nasty little emails, insisted I read an interestingly recent puff piece in the industry association-produced “VetScript”, written by (or ghost-written for) MPI’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Massey PhD Alumna Mary van Andel (whose profile can be found featured proudly on Massey’s website), waxing lyrical about the longstanding and tight relationship between Massey and the MPI.

So determined was this anon that I should read and get the "we don't break ranks at any level in this industry" pointed message, that they kept on emailing the link across several anonymous missives . . . with their insistence finally reaching the point of copying and pasting the entire article to make absolutely certain I would read it.

But here’s the thing the institutionally arrogant can’t see hiding in plain sight:

While they’re busy doing a collective fist pump every time they engineer their next obstruction, they’re playing the short game.

I’m playing the long game. My primary objective has expanded. It’s now as much about exposing the institutional crud, collusion, and amoral filth of this big industry web as it is about obtaining justice – because "justice" remains a moot point when the harm done cannot be undone. A life taken (in the literal animal equivalent of an outright human murder) cannot be given back. And the literal torture that preceded that animal-equivalent murder cannot be made not to have happened to that animal. That treasured, privately-owned, sentient being.

Here's the exchange, with the Ministry of Primary Industry's "investigator" Pete Govers' pathetic initiating email below my response.

From: editor@consumeraffairswriter.com
Sent: Friday, 24 July 2026 3:41 pm
To: 'Peter Govers (Pete)' <Peter.Govers@mpi.govt.nz>
Cc: 'Emma Stephenson (Emma Stephenson)' <Emma.Stephenson@mpi.govt.nz>
Subject: RE: VCNZ update

Pete:

With reference to your question in your below email, which reads as though it were written by the same party as drafted VCNZ Deputy Registrar Liam Shields’s June 8 email to me (certainly you are obviously in possession of that email): “It is our understanding that a formal complaint has not yet been lodged with the Veterinary Council of New Zealand (VCNZ). Could you confirm whether this is correct?”

You are clearly in possession of Shields’s June 8 email to me, thus it is difficult to believe you are not also in possession of my same-day response to him. Thus, you are fully aware that I have not laid any complaints, and you are equally fully aware of the many reasons why not – and you will know all of that because I have been providing you with granularly detailed information on the matter, including this central component of it, since the middle of May.

Principal among the reasons (again, you know this, including the many other reasons listed below), is that – per your email: “ . . . the process for making a formal complaint with VCNZ which would be to submit in writing and identify the veterinarian(s) you wish to make a complaint about”. By your own recognition, that requires me to know (a) the identity of the veterinarians (ALL of those involved in the case), and (b) which decisions and actions pertained to which veterinarian. I have none of this information. You are in full possession of the “Clinical Summary”, as well as my own 342-page report to you (and substantially more material still). You can clearly see that all names, initials and identifiers have been struck through, throughout the entire document, with heavy, black boxes.

Therefore, would you please confirm whether my interpretation of your below email is correct i.e. you are stating that . . .

Despite the fact that the Ministry of Primary Industries has its own independent statutory mandate to investigate potential offences under the Animal Welfare Act 1999, you will defer entirely to the Veterinary Council of New Zealand’s (VCNZ) complaints “process”, and you will do this in full knowledge of the following facts:

Notwithstanding your below email, “We understand that Liam Shields has previously explained the process for making a formal complaint with VCNZ which would be to submit in writing and identify the veterinarian(s) you wish to make a complaint about”, both Massey University and the Veterinary Council have refused to disclose the identities of all the veterinarians involved in what was done to my dog – including and especially, the veterinarian on November 30’s midnight to 9am shift (if there was indeed even a qualified veterinarian in attendance that night), who approved the commencement of my dog’s catastrophic overdosing with an unnecessary and strictly contraindicated sedative and who either approved or conducted the (apparently intended in one way or another to be fatal) disconnection of his IV fluids.

My articles documenting the evidence of this information-release evasion – together with the actual correspondence – can be found at these links:

UPDATE: CHECKMATE, VCNZ. They COULDN'T Answer! So DOES Massey's ICU Run Its Overnight Shift WIthout A Licensed Veterinarian?

UPDATED: Calling Veterinary Council of NZ CEO Iain McLachlan: You've Been Hiding In the Shadows for Too Long. NO MORE.

Veterinary Council of NZ to Disclose Names: Don’t Get Excited. It’s Not What It Sounds Like.

Can I Have A Straighter Answer, Please, Vet Council's Liam Shields? Do I Get the Names or Not?

Slippery Birds of A Feather . . . Massey & the Vet Council Flock Together

UPDATED 7.5.26: WAITING, MASSEY . . . Are You Going to Comply with Your Legally Required Information-Release Obligations?

STILL WAITING, MASSEY: Five Months of Stonewalling . . . And Counting

Massey Withholds Footage Following Discovery of ICU Cruelty: Formal Complaint Filed With Privacy Commissioner to Force Full Release

Yes, Please, VCNZ's Liam Shields, I WILL Have the Names You Have Been Obligated to Extract from Massey for the PAST THREE MONTHS

That the Chief Executive Officer of the VCNZ, Iain McLachlan, is under active Law Society of New Zealand investigation for collusion with Veterinary School Dean Jon Huxley to obstruct natural justice.

My articles documenting the actual correspondence between them, and related issues, can be found at these links:

Massey's Dean Jon Huxley Assures Collusive Veterinary Council: Nothing to See Here, Boys

Veterinary Council of NZ to Disclose Names: Don’t Get Excited. It’s Not What It Sounds Like.

Open Letter to Incoming Massey VC, Pierre Venter: Will You Clean Up the Lethal Levels of Incompetence, Clinical Negligence & Undisclosed Procedures on Clients' Pets?

That the Veterinary Council’s prosecution rate is an at-best, optimistic 1.5% . . . meaning that the VCNZ finds a way to avoid prosecuting more than 98 out of every 100 complaints brought to it, as found by a 2019 study, co-authored by none other than Massey’s own Professor Jenny Weston who holds a dual position across both institutions (from the VCNZ’s own website: “Prof. Jenny Weston Ex officio member & Deputy Chair (of VCNZ)” and “Academic Lead for Veterinary Science at Massey University” . . . and having previously chaired the VCNZ Complaints Assessment Committee.

One of the core complaints Weston would be potentially directly “prosecuting” (or not) would be against her very own protégé, “Dr” Steffi Jalava. Jalava (whose identity I obtained through my own investigations) was the very “veterinarian” who converted my dog (my private property) to the university’s commercial utilisation of him for unauthorised student training activities and “educational” video productions . . . which involved the continuation of the catastrophic overdosing commenced by the veterinarian or non-veterinarians on the November 30 overnight shift, and the either reckless and/or intended-to-be-fatal disconnection of his IV fluids for the purpose of those student activities and multiple (at least eight admitted to but six never supplied) “educational” videos filming my dog in the state of massive chemical collapse into which Jalava and associates had engineered him for the “educational” purposes Weston had taught them to perform in their “instruction” of students.

My articles documenting this structural interconnectivity and the overarching issues can be found at these links:

FOLLOW THE MONEY: The Compromised Veterinary Regulatory & Accreditation 'System'

UPDATED: The Conflicts-of-Interest Web Spins Wide . . . And Catches All (As Did the Trap I Set)

UPDATED: Massey’s Companion Animal Hospital Commits Multiple Breaches of New Zealand's Veterinary Code (And More)

UPDATED: PROOF Massey Vet, Teaching & ICU Staff INTENDED Harry to Die & Were Actively Facilitating It . . . & the VCNZ Has A MASSIVE Conflict of Interest

UPDATED: CATASTROPHIC 750% OVERDOSING & DEATH . . . Gross Malpractice, Deception & Management Malfeasance at Massey

That there are multiple points of structural interconnectivity and conflicts of interest between Massey and the VCNZ, including at the level that represents the “leadership” of the unnamed individuals that would be the subject of the complaint if their identities were in fact disclosed.

My commentary on these structural interconnectivities and active conflicts of interest is here:

FOLLOW THE MONEY: The Compromised Veterinary Regulatory & Accreditation 'System'

That I prepared a 342-page, forensically-detailed, evidence-replete, graphically-supported report for you and Ms Emma Stephenson, and provided tens (perhaps into the hundreds) of items of additional supporting material, together with a 13-page report containing my dog’s independent (and up to 12-days recent to the overnight Massey admission for simple 24-hour rehydration) veterinary records that conflict directly with Massey’s claims and falsified “records”.

My articles about my preparation of those reports for you, are here:

342 Pages of Forensic Evidence. Two Months in the Making. Now In the Hands of MPI's Animal Welfare Investigations Team.

Fully Viable & Requiring Nothing More from Massey than the Rehydration for Which He Was Admitted: Clinical Proof Now with MPI Investigators

UPDATED: PROOF Massey Vet, Teaching & ICU Staff INTENDED Harry to Die & Were Actively Facilitating It . . . & the VCNZ Has A MASSIVE Conflict of Interest

UPDATED: CATASTROPHIC 750% OVERDOSING & DEATH . . . Gross Malpractice, Deception & Management Malfeasance at Massey

UPDATED: MASSEY VETS FALSIFY RECORDS: POLICE REPORT FILED

That I have directed you to many of my now 70+ articles on The Customer & The Constituent, and at the International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE), a substantial percentage of which demonstrate – graphically – acts of intense animal cruelty and clinical irresponsibility.

The Customer & The Constituent NZ

THE KILLING OF HARRY KELLY

International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE) (Investigations)

That Massey University’s Director of Governance & Assurance, Jodie Banner, continues to withhold information (including but certainly not limited to all staff names, six of the admitted-to videos – even the “least-worst” two that were actually released demonstrating extraordinary cruelty to a little blind, catastrophically sedated dog – taken of Harry during staff’s commercial utilisation of him in his overdosed and IV-disconnected state for heinous student activities) after now seven months of my continuing attempts to extract this information and these materials through Privacy Act and Official Information Act requests . . . which I continue to have to refine and revise to combat her evasions, disingenuous and dishonest responses, point blank refusals and non-acknowledgements.

Here are some of my articles relating to Ms Banner’s information release evasions here:

READERS: Watch Massey's Director of 'Governance & Assurance,' Jodie Banner, and Her OIA Games . . . In Real Time

UPDATED: Huxley’s House of Veterinary ‘Teaching’ Horrors: OIA Asks Who Authorises Massey's Lab Rat Use of Private Clients’ Pets?

STILL WAITING, MASSEY: Five Months of Stonewalling . . . And Counting

Massey Withholds Footage Following Discovery of ICU Cruelty: Formal Complaint Filed With Privacy Commissioner to Force Full Release

UPDATED 7.5.26: WAITING, MASSEY . . . Are You Going to Comply with Your Legally Required Information-Release Obligations?

On the note of the above, in evading a request for release of information which would have assisted my efforts to get closer to the individual responsible for my dog’s repeated catastrophic overdosing, Ms Banner – inadvertently – in her May 13 OIA “response” assumedly unintentionally revealed what should be the cause of significant concern for any agency investigating animal welfare i.e. that the very drug Harry was overdosed with (I believe with fatal intention, but certainly to achieve a fatal outcome, albeit preferably one I was duped into participating in) requires no record of it to be made in the Controlled Drugs Register whatsoever.

It appears, from what I have been able to ascertain, along with Massey and the VCNZ’s refusal to name any veterinarian in attendance on the November 30 overnight shift, that any level of staff appears to be completely at liberty to administer any volume and any frequency of these heavy sedatives to any client's pet – including for their own convenience.

UPDATED: Massey Vet Teaching Hospital ICU: Where Empathy Goes to Die

I will shortly be publishing a very revealing piece dissecting Jodie Banner's May 13 OIA "response" – with graphic support for what appears clearly to have been the continuing overdosing of my already catastrophically overdosed dog long after the last actual recorded dose.

That it is entirely transparent that Dean Jon Huxley’s strategy to push me into my (according to him) only available avenue being a complaint to the Veterinary Council of New Zealand, when that avenue is specifically designed to ensure any complaints would go precisely nowhere.

Massey's Dean Jon Huxley Assures Collusive Veterinary Council: Nothing to See Here, Boys

Massey Sends In the Legal Big Guns to Silence Me: Guess What? You Silenced Harry But You Won't Silence Me

Regarding the repeated use of “complaint” by Massey, by VCNZ and now by yourself, in the singular, that there would be more than one complaint necessary i.e. plural, because what my dog suffered, he suffered at the hands and decisions of more than one “veterinarian” . . . notwithstanding the issue of whether or not Massey’s emergency facility – its Companion Animal “Hospital” runs its midnight to 9am shift without a licensed and registered veterinarian in attendance (noting that even that question is one that both Massey and the VCNZ refuse to acknowledge).

My article – and the related correspondence trails – on that specific matter is here:

UPDATE: CHECKMATE, VCNZ. They COULDN'T Answer! So DOES Massey's ICU Run Its Overnight Shift WIthout A Licensed Veterinarian?

Aside from the redactions and information refusals by Massey, and the repeatedly broken undertakings by the VCNZ to compel the identities of all veterinarians involved in the matter, there is other information that needs to form part of any complaint, depending upon which of the licensed veterinary staff any individual complaint pertains to e.g. the falsification of my dog’s time of killing on December 1 and the December 3 digital scrubbing of the associated records in Massey’s back-end audit logs (constituting an offence under the Crimes Act 1961).

UPDATED: MASSEY VETS FALSIFY RECORDS: POLICE REPORT FILED

You are in possession of several of the anonymous emails clearly sent by Massey staff:

Massive Legal Minefield for Massey: Unauthorised Data Leaks & Late-Night Trolling Expose Complete Lack of Control at Companion Animal Hospital

I sent these to you and to your co-investigator, Emma Stephenson some months ago. Subsequent emails from the same sender/s have goaded me over the apparent intention for MPI to “dismiss” the case.

Also, repeated emails from (to me, clearly the same internal Massey sender/s) aggressively insisted, by way of support for their goading that MPI would dismiss the case, that I read a puff piece they finally reproduced in the body of one of their subsequent anonymous missives to ensure that I did, in fact, read it.

The message I was meant to “get” was clearly that the MPI and Massey were too closely collegial at the highest levels for any “investigation” to go anywhere:

“Ps: here is the article I recommend you read that appeared in the latest vet script magazine: Mary van Andel, MPI’s Chief Veterinary Officer, discusses the longstanding partnership between MPI and Massey School of Veterinary Science.”

So I will ask you clearly, Pete:

Massey’s and the Veterinary Council’s strategy for claiming innocence in this matter (notwithstanding the weighty volume of granular and graphically supported evidence I have published) is to force me into a rigged “complaints” process, structurally conflicted from top to bottom, openly collusive per the correspondence I have published between the VCNZ’s CEO Iain McLachlan and Dean Jon Huxley (and now representing exhibits in the Law Society investigation into McLachlan), without the actual identities of those I wish to lay complaints against despite this being an obviously logical component of any complaint . . . so that a “nil finding” dismissal can be conveniently produced.

Has your support of the Massey/VCNZ strategy been enlisted in order to achieve what was indicated to me as being the inside intention vis a vis the anonymous, goading Massey emailer?

That is the only way any logically minded, intelligent reader can interpret – indeed, even plainly read – your email of today.

If that is the case, I would again draw your attention to the fact that the Ministry of Primary Industries has its own independent statutory mandate to investigate potential offences under the Animal Welfare Act 1999, and that whether the strategy evident in your email of today was always the intended (indirect but very effective) manner of engineering a dismissal . . . or whether it is the result of pressures now being brought to bear upon you to avert what should be your neutral and integrity-directed processes, you remain holding that legal and statutory obligation, regardless.

And certainly you have all the expert resources available to you to conduct the process independently of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand.

In the meantime, here are just some of the questions you would be asking, if your intention was to genuinely investigate this case:

Massey VC Pierre Venter & Dean Jon Huxley: Questions Requiring Your Upfront, Unspun Answers

UPDATED: Huxley’s House of Veterinary ‘Teaching’ Horrors: OIA Asks Who Authorises Massey's Lab Rat Use of Private Clients’ Pets?

Regardless of whether or not you and Ms Stephenson take the actions required of you as dictated by the clear statutory obligations under which the Ministry of Primary Industries is entrusted by the public to operate – and to operate with honesty and integrity – I will continue to publish, ongoingly, in accordance with the findings of my own investigations and deliberations.

If no investigation is conducted, that will then include the serialisation of the 342-page report, the 13-page supplementary report, and all other information that I prepared for the Ministry – much of which I have been holding back from publication in respect for your processes, and optimistic that you might be one organisation to act with genuine neutrality, transparency and integrity.

Jordan Kelly

From: Peter Govers (Pete) <Peter.Govers@mpi.govt.nz>
Sent: Friday, 24 July 2026 9:38 am
To: editor@consumeraffairswriter.com
Cc: Emma Stephenson (Emma Stephenson) <Emma.Stephenson@mpi.govt.nz>
Subject: VCNZ update

Kia ora Jordan,

It is our understanding that a formal complaint has not yet been lodged with the Veterinary Council of New Zealand (VCNZ). Could you confirm whether this is correct?

We understand that Liam Shields has previously explained the process for making a formal complaint with VCNZ which would be to submit in writing and identify the veterinarian(s) you wish to make a complaint about. The simplest way to do this is by completing and submitting the VCNZ notification form which was linked in Liam’s email to you dated 8 June 2026.

As the regulatory body for veterinarians, VCNZ is responsible for assessing and investigating the majority of the concerns and allegations you have raised. We will be seeking information regarding the outcome of any VCNZ investigation, as this may assist with our own enquiries.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is the regulatory authority responsible for animal welfare matters. Should VCNZ identify any potential breaches of animal welfare legislation during its investigation, MPI will consider those matters as appropriate.

Regards

Pete

Peter Govers| Senior Investigator
Corporate Services | Investigations & Compliance Support

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UPDATED: Coming Up . . . For Readers Following Massey's Harry Kelly Horror Story

by Jordan Kelly • 9 September 2026

And A Reminder to Massey: I Will Continue Exposing the Dark Underbelly of Your Despicable Institution Until Every Pet Owner in New Zealand Is Warned & Every Potential Student Is Made Aware of Precisely What You 'Teach' _______________________________________________________________

Hey, DG Ray Smith: Your Weak Investigators Handed the Ball Back to the Collusive Vet Council. Here Are SOME of the Massey Horrors MPI Is Pretending Not to See

by Jordan Kelly • 9 September 2026

Weak, Collusive or Both? MPI 'Investigators' Had A 342-Page Dossier of Hard Evidence (& Hundreds of Other Documents) FOR MONTHS . . . And Suddenly Handed It Off to the Demonstrably Collusive Vet Council, with One Weak-Willed Sentence and No Explanation. So . . . What Happened, Mr Director General?

UPDATED WITH WARNING TO ALL INTENDING STUDENTS & THEIR ADVISORS: Deceived or Part of the Deception? Massey Vet Student Environment Unfit for Purpose

by Jordan Kelly • 9 September 2026

MORAL INJURY OR EQUALLY EVIL? Massey Vet Students on December 1: Were You Deceived . . . or Participants In the Deception? (PART ONE) UPDATE 9.9.26 (For any intending student, parent funding a student, or careers advisor, wanting to ensure quality and ethical veterinary education, here's your warning): The Massey "neurologist" and veterinary "educator"who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent (or convenient) inability to discern between a "sedated" dog and a "demented" dog, with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted fellow "educator" " Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction, following Jalava's utilisation of him as a live teaching prop and as student "educational" video content . The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills" and collusion with Jalava) vehemently urges ALL young persons seeking an ethical and competent education in veterinary science, to look elsewhere for your studies.

UPDATED 8.9.26 Massey Vet Teaching Hospital ICU: Where Empathy & Ethics Go to Die

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

UPDATE 8.9.26: The Massey "neurologist" who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: She is "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent inability to discern the distinction between "sedated" and "demented" with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted "Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction. The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills") vehemently urges all pet owners to avoid any contact with this "clinician" - who, in the author's opinion is incomprehensibly incompetent, or utterly monstrous. Or perhaps, both. THIRD UPDATE: Since the original January 16 publication of this article, and despite Massey's ongoing efforts to obscure the identities of those involved, the day shift clinician who delivered the fraudulent diagnosis and administered the lethal injection has been identified by her full name: Dr Steffi Maja Jalava. She is far from the only person culpable for the torture, fraud, and fully unnecessary termination of Harry's life . However, Jalava's completely false "terminal" "neurological" "diagnosis" and "prognosis" delivered throughout two hours of aggressive coercion — after "teaching" staff had finished their unauthorised and unspeakably cruel utilisation of Harry in student activities and filming — were the grounds on which I was duped into signing a "euthanasia" "consent" form . . . and worse still, participating therefore in the wrongful killing of my own deeply beloved dog. The identities of the night shift veterinarian and ICU staff responsible for the overnight overdosing described in this article — the repeated, catastrophic levels of contraindicated administration of Gabapentin and Prevomax to a renally-compromised patient between approximately midnight and 9am on December 1, 2025 — remain unknown and actively withheld by Massey. If you were on duty in Massey's Companion Animal Hospital ICU on the night of November 30 into December 1, 2025, or if you have knowledge of who was, this investigation would like to hear from you. UPDATE TO READERS: Since writing this article, my continuing research has indicated that Harry was likely not only simply sedated (and massively so) for the sake of the ICU staff's convenience, but also to facilitate a multiplicity of training procedures to be conducted upon him - with the intention that the fronting clinician, "Steffi", would present him as requiring urgent "euthanasia" through a sudden natural decline in his condition. Unfortunately, for Massey management and personnel, I have not only my own memory of him standing strongly on his back legs in his ICU cage at midnight and reaching through the door for comfort, but also now a video of him actively "circling" on the ICU floor, just hours before he was presented to me in a flacid, semi-comatose state with no viable explanation other than some supposedly nature decline. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE : The above indications have not only since been confirmed , but what actually happened to Harry was far worse, and constituted much more than gross malpractice. My latest findings move the entire matter squarely into the category of malfeasance - both at the clinical level and at the highest levels of Massey's management. The Reckless Practice of 'Convenience Sedation' & the True Cost of Clinical Apathy

UPDATED 8.9.26: KILLING HARRY . . . The Gabapentin Gamble, Massey's 'Educational' 'Re-Purposing' of Clients' Pets & the Cover-Up

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

8.9.26 UPDATE: The Massey "neurologist" who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: She is "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent inability to discern the distinction between "sedated" and "demented" with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted "Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction. The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills") vehemently urges all pet owners to avoid any contact with this "clinician" - who, in the author's opinion is incomprehensibly incompetent, or utterly monstrous. Or perhaps, both. UPDATE: Since the original January 31 publication of this article, and despite Massey's ongoing efforts to obscure the identities of those involved , the clinician who delivered the fraudulent diagnosis and administered the lethal injection has been identified by her full name: Dr Steffi Maja Jalava. She is far from the only person culpable for the torture, fraud, and fully unnecessary termination of Harry's life . However, Jalava's completely false "terminal" "neurological" "diagnosis" and "prognosis" delivered throughout two hours of aggressive coercion - after " teaching" staff had finished their unauthorised and unspeakably cruel utilisation of Harry in student activities and filming - were the grounds on which I was duped into signing a "euthanasia" "consent" form . . . and worse still, participating therefore in the wrongful killing of my own deeply beloved dog . From Lethal Incompetence and Malpractice . . . to Withholding of Life-Saving Corrective Action in Favour of Utilisation As A Teaching Aid . . . to A Fraudulent Diagnosis . . . to A Coerced 'Euthanasia' to Destroy the Evidence . . . to Management Malfeasance At the Highest Levels

UPDATED 8.9.26 ICU Vet, Massey Neurologist & Dean of School: Dangerously Deficient or Just Plain Dangerous?

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

An Expert Contributed Commentary UPDATE 8.9.26: The Massey "neurologist" who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: She is "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent (or convenient) inability to discern between a "sedated" dog and a "demented" dog, with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted " Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction, following Jalava's utilisation of him as a live teaching prop and as student "educational" video content . The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills" and collusion with Jalava) vehemently urges ALL pet owners to avoid any contact with these "clinicians" - who, in the author's opinion are incomprehensibly incompetent but worse and even more so, utterly monstrous.

UPDATED 8.9.26: MASSEY VETS FALSIFY RECORDS: POLICE REPORT FILED

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

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 e nough 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. R emember, 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.

UPDATED 8.9.26: CATASTROPHIC 750% OVERDOSING & DEATH . . . Gross Malpractice, Deception & Management Malfeasance at Massey

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

UPDATE 8.9.26: The Massey "neurologist" who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: She is "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent inability to discern between a "sedated" dog and a "demented" dog, with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted "Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction, following Jalava's utilisation of him as a live teaching prop and as student "educational" video content. The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills" and collusion with Jalava) vehemently urges ALL pet owners to avoid any contact with these "clinicians" - who, in the author's opinion are incomprehensibly incompetent but worse and even more so, utterly monstrous. UPDATE: Since the original February 15 publication of this article, and despite Massey's ongoing efforts to obscure the identities of those involved , the clinician who delivered the fraudulent diagnosis and administered the lethal injection has been identified by her full name: Dr Steffi Maja Jalava . She is far from the only person culpable for the torture, fraud, and fully unnecessary termination of Harry's life . However, Jalava's completely false "terminal" "neurological" "diagnosis" and "prognosis" delivered throughout two hours of aggressive coercion - after " teaching" staff had finished their unauthorised and unspeakably cruel utilisation of Harry in student activities and filming - were the grounds on which I was duped into signing a "euthanasia" "consent" form . . . and worse still, participating therefore in the wrongful killing of my own deeply beloved dog . My investigation to uncover the names of the ICU staff who, on the night of November 30 , began the catastrophic repeated sedative cocktail overdosing , will continue. As will my endeavours to determine - what I believe is the near-certainty of the fact and the identities of whom administered - the undocumented continuance of the sedation prior to my arrival and the plan to present Harry falsely to me as having suffered some sudden "neurological" event or decline . . . so that I would sign the form for his immediate "euthanasia" . This Is What Happens When Massey Thinks THEY Own Your Dog & Can Do With Him As They Please (You Just Pay the Invoice) At This Appalling, Unaccountable Veterinary House of Horrors (LATEST PROOF OF 'LAB RAT' TREATMENT HERE )

UPDATED 8.9.26: Off-the-Charts Evil In New Zealand's Veterinary House of Horrors . . . A Pet Parent's Victim Impact Statement

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

UPDATED 8.9.26: PROOF Massey Vet, Teaching & ICU Staff INTENDED Harry to Die & Were Actively Facilitating It . . . & the VCNZ Has A MASSIVE Conflict of Interest

by Jordan Kelly • 8 September 2026

UPDATE 8.9.26: The Massey "neurologist" who apparently (or conveniently) can't tell a "demented" dog from a catastrophically (contraindicated) sedative-overdosed dog, has been named: She is "Dr" Anita Shea. Shea's apparent inability to discern between a "sedated" dog and a "demented" dog, with said dog on a table in front of her, greatly assisted "Dr" Steffi Jalava in her prolonged and intensive coercion of the owner for Harry's immediate (and as it later transpired, totally without cause) destruction, following Jalava's utilisation of him as a live teaching prop and as student "educational" video content. The author (and owner of the precious NON-"demented" little papillon who was sent to a totally unnecessary death based on Shea's "diagnostic skills" and collusion with Jalava) vehemently urges ALL pet owners to avoid any contact with these "clinicians" - who, in the author's opinion are incomprehensibly incompetent but worse and even more so, utterly monstrous. UPDATE: Since the original February 17 publication of this article, and despite Massey's ongoing efforts to obscure the identities of those involved , the clinician who promoted the fraudulent diagnosis and administered the lethal injection has been identified by her full name: Dr Steffi Maja Jalava . She is far from the only person culpable for the torture, the fraud, and the fully unnecessary termination of Harry's life . However, Jalava's promotion of the completely false "terminal" "neurological" "diagnosis" and "prognosis" delivered throughout two hours of aggressive coercion - after " teaching" staff had finished their unauthorised and unspeakably cruel utilisation of Harry in student activities and filming - were the grounds on which I was duped into signing a "euthanasia" "consent" form . . . and worse still, participating therefore in the wrongful killing of my own deeply beloved dog . My investigation to uncover the names of the ICU staff who, on the night of November 30 , began the catastrophic repeated sedative cocktail overdosing , will continue. As will my endeavours to determine - what I believe is the near-certainty of the fact and the identities of whom administered - the undocumented continuance of the sedation prior to my arrival in order to facilitate the plan to present Harry falsely to me as having suffered some sudden "neurological" event or decline . . . so that I would sign the form for his immediate "euthanasia" . The falsification of clinical records designed to bury this evidence — including the December 3 data scrub and the manipulation of Harry's Patient Change Log — is the subject of Police Report OR-2484821N. Harry WAS A Marked Dog. I Had Hoped Massey Vet Staff Couldn't Have Been Any More Wicked Than They'd Already Been Caught Out Being. But YES , Actually, They COULD .

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