Rescue, Compassion and Courage vs Recklessness, Cruelty and Cowardice
Jordan Kelly • 1 June 2026

Compassion vs Cruelty . . . Spot the Difference

Today, I was in the process of checking on the background of several rescue and rehoming organisations for “The Harry Homing Mission: A Home for Every Pet” initiative launched to save lives in response to Massey’s Dr Steffi Jalava and associates having intentionally, heinously, unspeakably cruelly, and deceptively, taken the life of my own pet . . . my beloved little papillon, Harry.


The rescuers in many of these organisations can only be described as angelic beings disguised as human beings, but with an inner core of steel.


I’ve worked in a voluntary marketing support capacity for the pet rescue world on and off since 2003, when I launched Operation Toby . . . a much larger and much more comprehensive (but exclusively Australian and New Zealand) version of what I intend the International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics’ (IIIVE.org’s)  Harry Homing Mission to become – albeit the Harry Homing project will be a global index. (After several years and a massive database, Operation Toby, in the “Web 1.0” environment, finally succumbed to the overwhelming then-expense of having to pay commercial website development fees every time a listing needed to be added.)


A video on one of the rescue group’s (Los Angeles's Hope for Paws https://www.hopeforpaws.org/) website, depicted in heartrendingly graphic detail, one of the worst cruelty (yet thankfully, successful rescue) cases I’ve seen for a while, and one of the most heroic rescue missions. Yes, there are many worse, but this puppy had not only been brutalised in general, but had also had one of its back feet hacked off, before being thrown 30 feet down a culvert into a body of water.


Remarkably, little Jordan (yes, you read that right) survived that. And even more remarkably, witnesses or passersby called the Hope for Paws rescuers in time for them to get straight there and conduct an equally remarkable rescue mission . . . which was followed by an equally swift and remarkable life-saving veterinary mission . . . surgery, blood transfusion, intensive care, and recovery.


Rescuers' Determination to Save the Almost Unsaveable vs Massey's Determination to Destroy the Perfectly Viable


And I marvelled . . . and not in a good way, at how the smarts, strategy and commitment of those rescuers and that veterinary crew, were equalled in a wickedly counter-opposing way, by the cunning, guile and determination of Dr Steffi Maja Jalava and the “team” (whose identities I have had to research for myself, given Massey's systematic redaction of names from all thus-far-extracted records) that she "led" as they catastrophically and repeatedly overdosed with a contraindicated, unnecessary cocktail of potent sedatives, then sadistically conducted invasive student participation procedures on (against my numerous-times forbiddance), and psychopathically filmed in the resultant state of pharmacological collapse, my precious little blind Harry – torturing him for the entire 15 hours of his fated “stay”.


At the end of which, Jalava got me in a room by myself and – with absolutely no disclosure of Harry’s sedated state whatsoever – hammered me mercilessly with a wickedly constructed false diagnosis  and all manner of “prognoses” until she found the one that would finally get me to sign a “euthanasia” “consent” form . . . heinously misrepresenting his desperately over-sedated state as some vague “neurological” decline or event.


And I further marvelled, at how – by extreme contrast – those rescuers were running on the smell of an oily rag of goodhearted donations and quite likely their own personal funds . . . while Massey’s Companion Animal ‘Hospital’ practice manager, Pauline Nijman, presides over a billing culture that takes every opportunity to inflate a client's invoice  —including after they’ve already killed the client’s pet.


Imagine what the $1236.84 I paid for the 15 hours of “care” (with no food, water or toileting, and being billed for a 24-hour rehydration protocol they disconnected him from after 8.5 hours for their invasive student activities upon him and cell phones filming of it) that resulted in Harry’s torture and equally torturous and totally-without-cause, fully intentional killing, could have done under the prudent and ethical stewardship of a rescue organisation like the one these brave, responsive and heart-of-gold rescuers give their time and devotion to.


It’s the cruelest of ironies, isn’t it?


Those who are paid handsomely (and make sure they extract even more than they are legally entitled to take), are those who operate with reckless abandon, cruelty and no accountability and get to do so strictly behind closed (ICU) doors . . . while those who operate almost pennilessly, with compassion and courage in its most unadulterated form, operate with a degree of transparency that is on open display for the whole world to see. 

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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. 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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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UPDATE: Since the original January 16 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. "Dr" Jalava is the one who (a) set up the extreme and non-negotiable false urgency and engineering of the "immediate euthanasia required" ruse, and (b) persistently ran roughshod over my protestations that I was acutely sleep-deprived and not in a position to consent to an irreversible action of this gravity. Being Refused the Right of A Second, External Opinion Cost My Beloved Dog His Life . . . Quite Unnecessarily 
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