My Message to This Massey Vet Nurse: There Comes A Time When Truth Is Finally the Most Tenable Option
Jordan Kelly • 28 May 2026

With A Ministry of Primary Industries' Animal Welfare Investigation Closing In, It's Finally Time to Speak Out and Tell Things Like They Really Happened

Last week - as I trawled painfully back through my Outlook inbox to transfer to the Ministry of Primary Industries' investigation team, Massey University's various emails since its despicable "Companion Animal Hospital" introduced its own special brand of horror into my life and heinously took my precious little dog's - I reached the most painful date of all:


December 1. (Second only to November 30, when I made the immeasurably regrettable decision to take my beloved dog, Harry, to this establishment - more aptly described as a risk-ridden overnight animal storage facility with slap-happy sedative-wielding ICU personnel and moral-bereft "teaching" staff.)


Prior to a certain time on that day — had I known the truth of what had been, and was still being, done to my dog — Harry would be alive and in his little bed beside my desk right now.


As I reached that section of my inbox, I realised I had something Massey had not intended to provide: names. Two of them. The only names in this entire sordid affair that Jon Huxley ("Dean", Massey "School" of Veterinary Science), Pauline Nijman (Practice Manager, Massey Companion Animal "Hospital"), and Jodie Banner (Chief of Staff, Massey University)  have not managed to obscure behind the large black boxes that have been applied  — without legal justification and in contravention of all international professional standards — to every single name and job title in every document I have so far managed to lever out of this institution under Privacy Act and Official Information Act obligations.


Two Names, Two Sets of Questions. Starting with the Payment-Processing Staff Member in Clinical Attire


Those two names are Dakshaini Silva and Christina Searle.


Dakshaini Silva sent me the paid-on-site $1236.84 invoice for Harry's (completely unnecessarily) final 15 hours at Massey's Companion Animal "Hospital" at 7.22pm on the night of December 1, 2025 . . . . having just been coerced into allowing the clinical killing of my dog on the basis of a fraudulent neurological diagnosis  that concealed the reality of what had actually been done to him overnight the night before and throughout the daylight hours of December 1.


It was possibly just as well Dakshaini Silva didn't show me the invoice as I paid it (as is Massey's way of making a pet owner feel like an out-of-line embuggerance if they should ever ask to see what they're paying for, much less ask have it explained to them).


Because, if she had shown me, the minute I'd seen "Gabapentin" on it  (even without all the other smoking guns peppered through it that would mean little or nothing to the average client) would have been the minute I realised the ruse . . . that Harry was just massively sedated. And had I realised that while his little dead body was still warm . . . I'd have been giving him mouth-to-mouth to get him breathing again . . . and to hell with Jalava and the other conniving arse-wipes who might have tried to stand in my way.


So Who Is Dakshaini Silva, What Was Her Role . . . And What Did She Know?


Dakshaini Silva was, by my recollection, clinically attired and, it is reasonable to assume, was a vet nurse in the ICU.


And I have questions for her.


I would very much like to know if, when she processed my payment, she possessed any part of the following knowledge:






  • The invoice contained a billing entry manually inflated posthumously from 1.6 to 4.0 units. Go figure that.


  • That, while Harry was being presented to his owner as having suffered a sudden "neurological decline" in order to achieve Dr Steffi Maja Jalava's desired result (i.e. his destruction and with it, evidence destruction of the overdosing and the impacts upon him of the many cruel "teaching" activities inflicted upon him and the sadistic filming by students on cell phones in selfie mode, while he was in his overdosed state of pharmacological collapse),  the invoice itself documented the pharmacological reality of what had actually gone on in that ICU. (Massey conveniently "overwrote" the CCTV footage I sought under the institution's Privacy Act 2020 obligations, but the fingerprints of the truth ran through many other documents and timelines that they had not realised would be interpretable by this particular pet's owner.)


The Question of Knowledge & Participation


Whether the clinically-attired Dakshaini Silva had been present throughout that day, December 1, 2025, or whether she came on as part of an evening ICU shift, or indeed had been part of the November 30 ICU night shift roster, I can't say with certainty. What I can say with certainty is that she sent that invoice.


The one I paid without the benefit of being shown. Just like the "euthanasia" I "consented" to without the benefit of being allowed an independent opinion. 


What she knew or did not know about its contents is one of the questions I'm now putting to Dakshaini Silva directly.


I remember her as notably cheerful that evening. Why?


As my heart was all but literally dragging along the floor behind me with my treasured little Harry who had at midnight the night before been standing up strongly on his back legs crying out for me in distress as he was totally ignored by two ICU staff in full-blown jovial social conversation, and now here I was less than 24 hours later trying to process how he had gone from that . . . to the now minutes-dead body in a blanket . . . she seemed to share the same strange heady happy demeanour that Jalava had suddenly demonstrated the minute I'd hung my head and "consented" (not that "consented" is the right term here, because before it must come "informed" and that was the reverse of what I had been). (Jalava had sprung from her seat with the look of an excited teenager just told she could go to the rave. I remember her face and her words,  "CAN I?!")


It was also the strangely joyous demeanour of the young assistant whom Jalava had re-appeared with incredibly promptly after she'd finally extracted the "consent" she'd worked on me (between an earlier phone call to me and the "consultation" room scene) for at least two hours.


Dakshaini Silva . . . did you know what had been done to Harry throughout that day? Did you witness any of it? Did you participate in any of it? Was your elevated mood that evening the mood of someone who had been part of something that had gone according to plan?


These aren't "cynical" questions. They're real questions. Very real questions. Very justified questions. And very necessary questions.


Massey Management Doesn't Like Pet Owner Clients Who Ask Questions. ANY Questions.


They're the sort of questions that the intimidating and condescending Massey culture definitely doesn't like pet owner clients asking . . . despite the phenomenal (and as it turns out, in my case, phenomenally and lethally fraudulent) amounts of money we pay to your facility for our pets' "treatment" and "care" and for your "outcomes".


And I'd also like to ask where the fraudulent billing practices actually come from . . . what opportunist masterminds these?


The duplicity of intent behind the line items. The manual inflation of billing units after a patient's death. The falsified time of death. The frantic entries in a patient's clinical records to "discharge" a "deceased" patient, or whatever it took, to get him out of the system before the next shift arrived. And the scrubbing of records two days after his death.


Was any of that instructed by your Practice Manager, Pauline Nijman? Who else is responsible for those decisions, most plainly the policies around invoicing practices?


These are the questions you can be assured that the now-active government investigation will eventually be asking.


Including perhaps to you, personally. I'm simply asking them first.


You know how to get hold of me if you have information you'd like to share. You already have. You just didn't know it at the time. And with the deepest regret, neither did I.

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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.
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