UPDATED: KILLING HARRY . . . The Gabapentin Gamble That Didn't Pay Off & the Cover-Up That Necessitated Death
Jordan Kelly • 28 May 2026

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

FOR LATEST FINDINGS, GO HERE.


When a veterinary hospital of "teaching" status takes a full suite of blood samples from a senior patient with a known renal condition, they are establishing an updated baseline of truth. Those samples are the clinical map. Or they are meant to be.


In the case of Harry, those samples were drawn well before I left the building. The hospital knew his history; they knew his age; and they knew they were looking for the specific metrics of his renal (kidney) function.


Yet, while those tubes of blood were either still being processed, or worse still with the results actually in their hands, Massey’s Companion Animal Hospital personnel engaged in a display of professional recklessness that defies the Veterinary Code of Conduct: They administered Gabapentin. They administered a collective volume that represented between a 400% and 600% overdose for Harry's weight and size. Then they potentiated it with a further pharmaceutical.


The Recklessness of the ‘Blind' Dose


Gabapentin is a drug that relies almost entirely on the kidneys to be cleared from the body. In a patient with renal impairment – a condition their established records clearly showed he had with an updated status that very night – the drug does not exit the system. It accumulates. It moves from a sedative to a toxin.


By administering this drug before checking the results of the bloods they had just drawn, or worse still after actually being in possession of them, Massey personnel engaged in a clinical "blind-fire". They did so wlfully. And they did so recklessly.  They ignored the co-morbidity they were actively testing for, creating a state of toxicity in a senior dog who had no way to clear the chemical from his system.


And worse still, they did it for their own convenience.


Sedatives in this category should only ever be administered (a) to alleviate pain, or (b) in preparation for surgery. Neither applied to Harry. What DID apply, is that this little blind dog had just been taken from his owner’s arms and deposited in a cold steel cage in (to him) a terrifying environment, and with two ICU staff who paid him nil attention; they were too engaged in their social discussion and their fascination over a new-born kitten.


My attempts to draw Harry’s need for human comfort to their attention were summarily ignored; instead I was shunted out of the ICU. And he was drugged.


The Multiplier Effect: Lethal Potentiation


And it didn't stop with a single drug or even a single dose.


Knowing that Harry’s system was already struggling to process the Gabapentin, personnel then administered a secondary sedative. In clinical pharmacology, this is known as Potentiation. When you combine two central nervous system (CNS) depressants, the second drug doesn't just add to the first – it multiplies the effect.


In a dog with compromised kidneys, this combination acts as a chemical straitjacket.


By "stacking" these drugs (as it is referred to), Massey personnel didn't just sedate Harry; they effectively shut down his ability to manifest normal neurological responses. They didn't just "relax" him; they induced a profound pharmacological collapse.


And they kept stacking until the overdose reached a level of between 400% and 600% what the veterinary literature indicates is manageable for even a healthy, non-renally-impaired dog of his weight and size.


The ‘The Neurological Decline’ Deception


When I returned to the hospital, I was not met with an admission of this compounded drug reaction.


Instead, I was presented with a fabricated narrative: "He is in neurological decline."


This is where clinical negligence transforms into Clinical Malpractice and the height of ethically-deprived deception.


  • The Clinical Reality:  A senior dog is given a toxic "stack" of drugs his body cannot process, resulting in predictable ataxia, sedation, and collapse.


  • The Institutional Cover-Up:  The personnel (headed by ICU vet, “Steffi”) re-frame the symptoms of their own repeated, catastrophic contraindicated pharmacological overdosing of Harry as a natural (and yet, somehow, sudden) "neurological decline". It should be noted that Harry was standing vertically, balancing expertly on his hind legs, and with fully extended front legs through the grid of his ICU cage (where he had been admitted due to dehydration) as he cried in vain distress for staff's attention, just prior to midnight the night before.


By labeling his drug-induced state as "neurological", Massey personnel shifted the blame from their own recklessness to Harry’s biology. They used the symptoms they createdto justify the "inevitability" of the euthanasia they were about to coerce.


The Demand for Metadata


I am currently in a   stand-off with Massey University's Legal and Governance department who - despite being under full Privacy Act 2020 obligation - are thus far refusing to release the following digital metadata:


  1. The Timestamp of the Blood Draw.
  2. The Timestamp of the Blood Results (when they hit the internal system).
  3. The Timestamp of the Gabapentin Administration.
  4. The Timestamp of the Secondary Potentiating Drug.


If the results were available and ignored, it is malpractice. If the drugs were given before the results were checked, it is reckless.


But presenting the resulting collapse as a somehow natural yet sudden "neurological decline" is a calculated deception designed to shield the hospital from the consequences of their own incompetence.


And – between a phone call and a consulting room hard-core pressure session – spending upwards of two hours in an endeavour to coerce Harry’s owner (me) into signing “euthanisation” consent forms to destroy the evidence  in the form of Harry himself, is nothing short of the most evil brand of clinical deception imaginable. 

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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
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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? 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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. 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