Catching Massey In A Lethal Lie: Forensic Study of Invoice Demonstrates Fraudulent Killing of Harry Kelly

Pet parents everywhere need to understand the fee-charging antics of an institution like Massey and its Companion Animal Hospital. They need to understand the depth of deception of which some veterinarians, and some clinical environments and their management are capable. And they need to understand the potential lethality of the consequences.

Practitioners and establishments like this rely on the fact that we – the non-veterinarian pet owners – won’t have a clue more often than not, what the line items are on the ridiculously inflated invoices we pay. And that we – the devoted pet parents – will use every last cent on our credit cards to buy life-saving treatments for our beloved animals.

But our ignorance and our devotion have the potential to be – for the likes of Massey Companion Animal Hospital – their opportunity - financial and also in other important regards.

Readers will by now be well-acquainted with the horror story of my precious little dog, Harry's massive overdosing by the Massey veterinary facility, the absence of life-saving treatment following the (repeated dosings), and his false presentation to me as "neurologically failing" with the complete evasion of any disclosure of the fact that the dog I now held in my arms was actually in the grips of a severe, unauthorised, unnecessary, and undisclosed, sedation.

BREAKING: IN LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS, HARRY'S LIFE-ESSENTIAL IV FLUIDS WERE DISCONTINUED TO FILM HIM FOR STUDENT EXPERIMENTATION TEACHING VIDEOS.

It was also through my belated finding and studying of the invoice for Harry’s final “stay” and “care” in Massey’s ICU, that I discovered the massive malpractice and the subsequent fraudulent diagnosis they proffered to me, to convince me to let them absolutely unnecessarily end his life..

That invoice - the smoking gun - as it turned out, was also the most insultingly opportunistic statement imaginable.

The Invoice Indictment: The Paper Trail of a Clinical Betrayal

Let me break it down – clinically and forensically – for those pet owners that have the stomach to see the games that are played with your wallets – or, for most of us, our credit cards.

Stay with me as I walk you through the line items on this invoice . . . an invoice that illustrates in irrefutable clinical and pharmacological detail, the expose I roll out in The Gabapentin Gamble That Didn't Pay Off & the Cover-Up That Necessitated Death and NOT ‘Euthanasia’ . . . A Cover-Up & A Coerced Termination Under False Pretences.

This invoice isn’t just a “bill”; it’s the metabolic and chronological roadmap of the sheer evil that was perpetrated upon my dear little loving, sweet and innocent (and not at all needing to die) Harry.

The Pharmaceutical Fraud

The invoice confirms the exact two drugs that created the "Pharmaceutical Mask" used to justify Harry's death i.e. the cocktail of sedatives that would be, later that day, used to present him to me as a dog that had “had a neurological event” and “needs to be euthanased TODAY”.

Maropitant (Prevomax): 0.36ml administered on December 1st.
Gabapentin (100mg): 2 capsules administered on December 1st.

Both of these drugs – the primary sedative and the potentiation agent - were administered on the morning of the “euthanasia” coercion (read: pre-meditated clinical killing) planned by Steffi, the vet, later that day (just as soon as she could get me back to Massey).

The Smoking Gun: Evidence of Prior Knowledge

The most damning evidence of clinical malpractice is not just what was administered, but when. The invoice proves that on November 30th - the night of Harry’s admission - Massey performed an IDEXX Catalyst Chem17 CLIP and a Massey Bundle Lab Test.

These are not "generic" tests; they are high-resolution diagnostic panels specifically designed to evaluate renal (kidney) and hepatic (liver) function.

By the time they reached for the Gabapentin on the morning of December 1st, they were already in possession of the blood data. They knew Harry was a 15-year-old dog with compromised kidneys. Yet, they proceeded to administer a drug that the veterinary community knows is cleared almost exclusively by the kidneys.

This was not a "blind" administration; it was a choice made with the clinical evidence of Harry's renal vulnerability already sitting on their monitors. To then present the resulting pharmacological collapse as a spontaneous "neurological event" is a fabrication that flies in the face of the very tests they billed me $255 to perform. They used my money to prove he was vulnerable, and then used that vulnerability to lethally over-medicate him.

Furthermore, it is at odds with the actual objective of the overnight hospitalisation – as evidenced by the invoice line items, “Hartmans Solution 1ltr & Potassium Chloride”: These items, billed alongside the MILA set (billed as outlined below), are the building blocks of a multi-day rehydration and electrolyte stabilisation protocol.

The Failure of the 'ICU' Contract: I Paid for ‘Maintenance & Care’ But Got Negligence & Sedation

I was charged $320 for "CA ICU Hospital and Maintenance Fees" for November 30^th (in addition to the $277 the night before for an after hours consult by a vet so young I find it hard to believe she was even out of high school – and the degree to which she was out of her depth had a deer-in-the-headlights look etched into her face).

Yet, as I detail graphically in NOT ‘Euthanasia’ . . . A Cover-Up & A Coerced Termination Under False Pretences, while I walked through the ICU doors and heard my blind dog screaming while the staff ignored him to coo over a kitten and share a jovial social conversation, I find I was $320 for "Maintenance and Care”.

Yet that care, it certainly would appear to me, comprised of nothing other than (a) intentional negligence, and (b) the unnecessary and unauthorised convenience-sedation of a dehydrated senior dog with a dangerous cocktail of potent – and potentiated – strong sedatives.

The Clinical Contradiction

The billing shows a chilling level of financial opportunism right up to the end:

High-End Billing: I was charged $198.38 for an "IV Set Large Dura Flow Coil Mila" and $255 for lab tests (a comprehensive blood test panel that would have clearly demonstrated the renal-compromised status that, in turn, that made their (already unnecessary, convenience-based) administration of the Gabapentin sedative (further potentiated by Maropitant) was a fundamentally contraindicated pharmaceutical decision.

The ‘Final Solution’: They were billing me for high-end life-sustaining equipment at the same time as they were convincing me that the (undisclosed sedated) state they presented him back to me in was indicative of their claimed “neurological event” with immediate “euthanasia” required.

So let’s look at that specific line item:

‘IV Set Large Dura Flow Coil Mila IV Set @ $198.38’

To the average pet owner, that’s just a string of expensive-sounding technical jargon.

But in the veterinary world, the name MILA International means something very specific.

They are the specialist, "Gold Standard" manufacturer of high-end medical devices designed exclusively for animals. MILA is the premium brand. You don’t find this equipment in a budget back-street clinic; you find it in high-intensity, long-term care units.

But here’s the clinical "gotcha" that Steffi the intensive care vet (and the one pushing me from 100 different angles to let her terminate him) didn't count on me doing a little research and finding out:

The "Dura Flow Coil" is a specialised, high-durability IV extension line. It is designed with a specific coiled architecture so that a patient in the ICU can move, stand up, and turn around in their cage without the line kinking or snapping. It is built for a dog that is active, mobile, and recovering.

You don’t install a $200 MILA set on a dog you truly believe is "unfixable" - OR that is incapable of the sort of movement this particular brand of equipment is designed to accommodate.

You don’t open the most expensive, robust long-term stabilisation gear on the market for a dog you are planning to kill in an hour, if you can just get the owner to agree to it. You use a Mila set when you are committing to a prolonged, multi-day rehydration recovery.

So, I have to ask:

If "Steffi", the ICU vet, was so utterly certain at 11am on the phone, that Harry was a goner, that he had suffered some catastrophic “neurological event" from which, as she multiple times, from multiple different angles (emotional, psychological and, supposedly, “clinical”) assured me, why was I being billed for the premium equipment used to facilitate a long-term recovery?

Either the clinical staff knew Harry was recoverable with the right amount and duration of rehydration – and were prepping him for the long-haul rehydration I had brought him in for – or they were padding the invoice with high-end gear they knew would never be used, right up until the second they pressured me to sign his death warrant.

It’s the ultimate administrative proof of their duplicity. They sold me the "Gold Standard" promise of life on the invoice, while they were already prepping the $45 syringe to administer the “euthanasia” drug they were so eager to take him out with.

This invoice doesn't just show what they charged me; it shows what they were thinking.

Clinical Duplicity: The deployment and charging of the consumables of recovery at exactly the same time as the death sentence substance was being uploaded and charged out.

IN SUMMARY:

They were charging me for the equipment of hope and recovery. . . while they were delivering the irreversible act of clincal fraud and sheer moral depravity and wickedness.

I did not expect that I would be unbeknownst to me, paying for my dog to be convenience-medicated into a "false-positive" “neurological failure” state.

I did expect that if a blood test panel was conducted to ascertain whether Harry had compromised kidney function (which he DID), that he would not be administered drugs which are specifically contraindicated for a dog with compromised kidneys – and that had the strong potential to cause him lethal damage.

I did not expect that at the same time as he was being supposedly treated for the actual reason for admission – a sustained rehydration protocol due to dehydration – that he was being given completely unnecessary, contraindicated sedation and a plan to fabricate a “neurological event” was being developed, in order to provide reasoning for the strong push for his destruction.

I did not expect that I would be paying for a fabricated clinical diagnosis – on the basis of which a consent to “euthanise” Harry would be coerced from me, to cover up the evidence of the malpractice.

I did expect that I would be paying for competent treatment, honest diagnosis, and genuine overnight care (not convenience-medicated “animal storage” and the administration of unnecessary and contraindicated sedating medications – with one that potentiated the other).

I did expect that – even if you went ahead and breached your duty of obtaining my consent to “convenience-sedate” my dog that you would have disclosed that you had medicated him during a nearly one hour phone call to me that morning and a further in-person consultation of at least the same duration– albeit your focus was entirely on conditioning me to accept your “non-negotiable” push for his termination.

I did not expect that I was being sold a pre-meditated exit strategy for my dog because he had become the embodied evidence of an incomprehensible degree of professional negligence and clinical malpractice so fundamental in nature that it might be argued that it was intentional.

That is an additional consideration that would lead me to point the reader to my repeated, unsuccessful attempts over a period of two years or more to draw to the attention of the Companion Animal Hospital’s Practice Manager, Pauline Nijman, the various instances of negligence and toxic culture and attitudes towards patients and their owners that I had either witnessed or experienced myself.

And I did most definitely NOT expect that my little boy would be repeatedly overdosed with a contraindicated cocktail of potent sedatives in order to facilitate the various teaching procedures being performed upon him and the (withheld by Massey's Legal and Governance department) teaching videos of same . . . after which it was simply necessary to dispose of the evidence (him) in the most expedient manner possible. READ ABOUT IT HERE.

Meantime, for a full list and breakdown of the specific violations of the VCNZ Code of Professional Conduct, the Animal Welfare Act, and the Consumer Guarantees Act associated with this case, read the formal Summary of Breaches here.

LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS: NEW VETERINARY CODE, PRIVACY ACT & COMMON LAW VIOLATIONS (CONVERSION & BREACH OF BAILMENT) TO BE ADDED

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MASSEY VETS FALSIFY RECORDS: POLICE REPORT FILED

by Jordan Kelly • 27 February 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) 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 • 17 February 2026

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 .

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

by Jordan Kelly • 15 February 2026

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 )

NOT ‘Euthanasia’: A Cover-Up & A Coerced Termination Under False Pretences

by Jordan Kelly • 12 February 2026

FOR LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS: GO HERE . My Precious Little Boy Died Needlessly, In Intense Physical, Mental & Emotional Agony . . . After Massive Overdosing, Intense Cruelty & Intentionally False Diagnosis by Massey 'Vet' (So Called) to Enable His 'Disposal' After Lab Rat-Style Experimentation

Massey University's Upside-Down Prioritisation of Taxpayer Funds: Fiscal Malfeasance & the TRUE Cost of Institutional Arrogance

by Jordan Kelly • 11 February 2026

While my focus is on the 750% overdosing of my precious little dog, Harry, with an unauthorised, contraindicated convenience sedative, his conversion from patient to live specimen, and the subsequent destruction of evidence (HIM), Massey’s focus is on deploying a taxpayer-funded legal hit squad to 'profile' me.

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

by Jordan Kelly • 8 February 2026

An Expert Contributed Commentary (FOR LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS, GO HERE .)

KILLING HARRY: The Gabapentin Gamble That Didn't Pay Off & the Cover-Up That Necessitated Death

by Jordan Kelly • 31 January 2026

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

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

by Jordan Kelly • 31 January 2026

FOR LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS, GO HERE : (Note to Readers: Nil response to the below. Looks like the New VC's modus operandi is not about to differ from the institutional stonewalling of the entrenched Massey suits . . . with the culture he has inherited obviously causing him no concern.) Plea to New Vice-Chancellor, Pierre Venter, for Cultural Change & Institutional Integrity in the Interests of Pets, Owners & the Ethics Instilled In Future Veterinarians

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

30 January 2026

Bring It On, Huxley, Dean of 'Veterinary School'. Exposing the Realities of Your 'School' Is the Hill I've Chosen to Die on. So It's the Courage of My Convictions vs the Size of Your Legal Budget.

The Smoking Gun: So Why Is Massey Stalling Its Information Provision Obligations?

by Jordan Kelly • 29 January 2026

Reckless Clinical Negligence, Malpractice, Clinical & Management Malfeasance . . . Well Done, Massey FOR LATEST INVESTIGATION FINDINGS, GO HERE & HERE .

A VITAL & URGENT WARNING TO PET PARENTS EVERYWHERE