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

When I left Harry just 15 hours earlier - for a 24-hour rehydration protocol - he looked like a completely normal dog . . . and this Is what Massey's >500% unauthorised, contraindicated, convenience-sedation overdosing did to this poor little dehydrated, renally-impaired baby. Then this House of Veterinary Horrors and its students poked, prodded and filmed the Impacts for training materials instead of trying to save him.

Why? Because he had cried. But I have cried even more than Harry, when I discovered, later, that the supposedly irreversible neurological failure they fabricated to coerce me into allowing them to kill him, hadn't been anything of the sort:  it had been a massive, stacked, at least five-fold overdose of a drug specifically advised against for kidney patients (as they knew he was), and which he was making massive efforts to come out of when he saw me . . . valiant efforts the "vet", "Steffi", wickedly laughed off as "just his last hurrah". 

Had I known the truth of what had happened to him that night and morning in Massey's "Intensive Care" ward, I would have been gotten him the hell out of there as fast as I could go, to the nearest real vet, who might have still been able to save him.  But Massey, and its ICU and teaching staff needed him dead . . . to hide the evidence of their catastrophic, multiple malpractices (and also to hide what you will learn below).

There had been no "neurological event". What there was, was a catastrophic chemical stupor that they had caused, and then used to pressure me into ending Harry's life.

Pet parents: You MUST demand your pet's clinical notes and learn to read them. If you don't, you are failing your pets, most especially if they are ever referred to Massey University's Companion Animal "Hospital" or any other veterinary teaching facility.   I found - hidden on Page 15 of Massey's own notes - the evidence that a decision had been made at 8.38am (the morning after his admission for a simple rehydration procedure) that Harry's status in this "Hospital" was to be converted from "patient" to "student test subject":  "IV Fluids - 15ml/hr, Started at 12:00am 01/12/2025 . . . keeps tangling.  Stopped at 8:38am 01/12/2025."

They disconnected Harry just one-third of the way in to a prescribed 24-hour protocol  (that was already insufficient to rehydrate him even  without  the Gabapentin overdosing) after he had additionally been administered a 500% - 750% overdose of a drug that requires fully healthy and  HYDRATED  kidneys to exit his system.

Incomprehensible? Actually, no. Disconnecting Harry from what by then were actual  life-essential fluids achieved two objectives for the Massey staff: 

(1) They no longer had to concern themselves with a "tangling" line (although the $198 Dura Flow Coil Mila line item on the invoice is designed specifically to prevent this situation) . . . leading to one remaining and sinister conclusion . . .

(2) That Harry was disconnected from his life-saving IV fluids so that he could be extracted from his cage to facilitate the numerous below-mentioned tests performed on him for the benefit of Massey's veterinary students.

After which, he was to be presented back to his owner with the narrative that "he has had a neurological event/decline and needs euthanased".

This wasn't just a "failure of care"; it is the documentation of a patient being actively decommissioned to serve as a training prop. In legal terms alone, this is a breach of:

(a) the Contract of Bailment (Massey has a legal "obligation to return a pet owner's property (their pet) in the same or better condition as received; by prioritising "institutional utility" (teaching) over a patient's clinical survival, they breached that bailment);

(b) the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (under the CGA, services must be provided with "reasonable care and skill" and be "fit for purpose"; a rehydration protocol that is stopped after 8 hours due to a "tangling" line - despite being charged for an anti-tangling device - is a "total failure of service", and

(c) the Animal Welfare Act 1999 (Section 10), which mandates that the person in charge of an animal must meet its physical and health needs; disconnecting and discontinuing life-essential fluids from an overdosed patient to facilitate "observation" is a direct violation of this statutory duty).

And as far as the innumerable breaches of the Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinarians and the provisions of the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 governing the communication, and the release, of correct and comprehensive information, let alone any reasonable expectation of the same Health & Disability Act human medicine ethics being applicable also in veterinary care . . . this is a genuine "where do you even start?" situation.

And as concerns Massey University's legal threats to me to "gag" me regarding my continuing discoveries and withhold all other information from me (knowing now that I have learned how to read clinical notations), the actions of the institution's management now sit squarely in the domain of not just malpractice, but malfeasance.

To the Students of Massey University's Companion Animal 'Hospital':

Be Ashamed. Be Very, Very Ashamed . . . . .

 
. . . . . particularly if you had knowledge of the intention to obtain my duped and coerced agreement to unnecessarily end the life of my precious little Harry, by keeping from me any mention or knowledge of the fact that he had been convenience-sedated with a series of massive overdoses of renally-contraindicated Gabapentin (further potentiated by Maropitant) . . . to produce the guise of some "neurological event".

That is, a "neurological event" created by a drug specifically noted in the international veterinary literature as mimicking a neurological event:

Neurological Impacts of Gabapentin:

From Ataxia through to Coma

"Neurological sequelae following administration of the Gabapentin to patients with renal failure, varying from subtle changes in mental status to drowsiness and coma, have been reported in the literature."

— Journal of Renal Hepatic and Biomedical Sciences

"Ataxia [loss of coordination] is a common adverse effect [of Gabapentin]."

— MSPCA-Angell Clinical Review

You know . . . the same sort of "neurological event" that your "neurologist" conducted a "neurological exam" to prove his "neurological decline" . . . in support of "Steffi's" intended intense push for his execution. (And NO. "Steffi", do NOT expect me to play along with the ruse posthumously by using the term "euthanasia'" . . . the definition of which is "mercy killing"; NOT "convenience killing" or "evidence destruction").

And did you know, Students, of the massive overdosing my precious little boy was being repeatedly slammed with . . . to make him pliable for you to poke, prod and shove your devices into his eyes to "test" for whatever the hell you were all "testing" for . . . that was nothing remotely related to his urgent need for rehydration (the actual reason for his admission)  . . . which was even more urgent after he had been given a cumulative 400% to 600% Gabapentin overdose . . . a drug, on top of which, is strictly contraindicated for renal patients, which you all knew he was?

AND while he was dehydrated, and given barely a thimble full of hydrating fluids per hour? Did you know, did you care, that with all of the above circumstances converging, his poor little kidneys didn't have a chance of clearing the rapidly accumulating toxicity? Did you spare a thought for the hell you were all putting him through while you filmed him on cell phones in the utter agony you created for him? Did you not see him as anything more than a lab rat? WICKED.

From your OWN NOTES:  “ . . . Marked elevations of urea and creatinine . . . "

Don't you even know what that  means, Students?

It means he was renally impaired.  Significantly. The very reason you should never administer  exactly what you administered a 500% to 750% overdose of: the strictly contraindicated GABAPENTIN: 

And did you know that Massey's own records show that, a few months prior, he had had an adverse reaction to just one-quarter of the dose your ICU staff loaded him up with this time, and on that prior occasion he hadn't even been dehydrated, as he was now?

When you, Students, were participating in all the horrendous, invasive, lab animal-type procedures on my precious little Harry, did you ever spare a thought for how YOU  would have felt if he was YOUR dog?

DID you? Does your own dog have a name? Perhaps read this article and substitute "Harry" with the name of YOUR pet.

Did you stop for 30 seconds in time, if not to think about the hellscape that my poor little dog's life had been in that veterinary house of horrors, then maybe to ponder the fact that he actually had an owner? An owner who loved him enough (and STILL loves him, even in death) for him to have even been brought there for "care" in the first place?

And did you know that Harry (by then in more desperate need than ever of the simple but life-essential rehydration procedure for which he had been admitted) had had been disconnected from his IV fluids line and the prescribed 24-hour protocol discontinued, just to enable YOU to spend the next few hours performing YOUR INTENSELY CRUEL LAB RAT PROCEDURES ON HIM?

May you all one day be richly rewarded for your "compassion" and "empathy" - to say nothing of your "ethics" - with a one-way ticket to hell.

The Massey Companion Animal 'Hospital' Lab Rat Facility

Harry was subjected to invasive, ghoulish student observation (and likely also, participation), teaching-value-only tests and experiments (including with devices and equipment) that bore no relationship to the reason for his admission or the reason for being in the "hospital". At all i.e. rehydration i.e. the treatment for dehydration.

These tests and experiments included (but were almost certainly not limited to, and which would likely be the reason for Dean Jon Huxley and the University's Legal and Governance executives refusing to release six of eight teaching videos they admit to having recorded. To be noted, they "overwrote" the ICU and consulting room CCTV footage that I requested under the Act):

(NB: Students: If you have ever had any sneaking doubts about the quality of your veterinary "education" at Massey, you might want to consider whether your "educators" and "specialists" might themselves need support to perform complex tasks like operating a door knob. By way of a glaring example, the "neurologist" who teaches you to assess the neurological capability of a dog in the peak of a 500% to 750% overdose of a drug that creates neurological incapability, and a vision test on a blind dog.)

• The "Menace Response" Test:  Repeated testing of the blink reflex of a blind dog. This is the very definition of a clinically nonsensical act . . . testing a blind dog for sight-based responses and then using his "lack of response" as "proof" of "neurological decline".

• Proprioception (Paw Flipping): Repeatedly flippomh his paws over to see how long it took him to correct them . . . a test for pure neurological "teaching value", not for treating dehydration.

• Vestibulo-ocular Reflexes: Forcing his head from side-to-side to watch his eye movements,

• The "Sound Reaction" Test: (Intensely frightening for a blind dog in an unfamiliar, clinical environment.) Claiming he had "inconsistent responses" to noise to support the "neurological event" narrative, ignoring the fact that he was heavily sedated. (To be noted, the obviously retrofitted "Clinical Summary" also claimed that Harry was deaf. Harry was not deaf  or anything even approaching it - as evidenced by his ready response to my soft verbal command, even breaking through what I later , too late, learned was his heavily sedated state: "Show Mummy your strong leggies.")

• Calvarium Pressure: Applying painful pressure to his skull to elicit a pain response.

• Mentation Labeling: Repeatedly grading him as depressed/dull, which ignored the fact that he was heavily sedated with three doses of Gabapentin totaling 150mg i.e. dispensed for the equivalent of a healthy, robust 15kg dog while he was 3.8kg - and potentiated with Maropitant while he was severely dehydrated. This was done despite Massey's own records showing his earlier massive overreactions to just 50mg of the same drug.

• Heart Examination: Performing a thoracic auscultation (listening with a stethoscope) to document a "Grade 2/6 left-sided systolic heart murmur."

• Abdominal Palpation: Manual probing of his abdomen to assess his internal organs, documenting that his "kidneys felt small and irregular" on palpation.

• Ophthalmic (Eye) Exam: Beyond the glaucoma, documenting a "Phthisis bulbi" (a shrunken, non-functional eye) in his right eye and attempted a Fundoscopic Exam (looking at the retina), noted as "unsuccessful due to inability to visualise internal structures."

• Orthopedic Assessment: Cataloged "Osteoarthritis", likely through the palpation of his joints during the same window.

• Spinal extension; dorsal extension; flexion of head. Etc. Etc. Etc.

• Spinal reflexes

• Spinal palpation

• "Cranial nerves"

• "Structural" assessments

• Dental Exam:  A dental grading is a standard teaching exercise for students. Performing a detailed oral examination and grading periodontal disease on a dog suffering from a supposed "neurological event" but most definitely from severe dehydration and a catastrophic drug adverse reaction is clinically irrelevant to his survival, albeit high in "teaching value" for a student rotation.

In a Hospital, if a patient is in a life-threatening crisis (catastrophic drug adverse reaction; drug-enhanced kidney failure; purported "neurological event"), you focus first and foremost on the survival of the patient.

You do not divert your priorities to focus on grading their dental tartar or checking for a Grade 2 heart murmur or poking around and into their blind eyes with devices.

You stabilise the life-threatening condition.

In a Laboratory, you might indeed prioritise the "subject" providing practice opportunities for students to practice their full range of diagnostic skills - grading teeth, palpating kidneys, listening for murmurs, and testing range of joint mobility. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Bear firmly in mind also. Students, that both you and the Massey staff knew Harry was essentially "chemically paralysed" by the overdosing while you were all performing these multiple, clinically totally unnecessary, and profoundly cruel, tests and experiments on him.

No wonder Huxley and Massey's legal suits don't want me to see the other six videos they admit to having been taken of him.

And no wonder they are refusing to release his full records - despite their full legal obligations under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 to do so.

These despicable, relentless, animal testing laboratory-style cruelties also served to speed up what - certainly, to me - appeared to have been what was intended to be my little Harry's death.

The 'Neurological Event' Ruse vs the Catastrophic Overdose Reality

And. Students, who among you had knowledge that this "Steffi'" (a "vet", so-called) planned to extract my consent for Harry to be put to death without ever imparting to me the nature or true state and cause (i.e. massive sedation overdoses) of his presentation that day? Wickedly presenting him back to me with the bullshit story that he'd had some vague "neurological event" (as "confirmed" by "her neurologist", when testing the neurological capability of a dog given a 500% - 750% overdose of a drug that creates symptoms of neurological incapability) so that the evidence (Harry himself) of your massive and multiple, conscienceless malpractices could be conveniently disposed of?

Such that I would have no other possibility put before me than to somehow accept that Harry had suddenly had some inexplicable overnight "neurological decline"? To neatly secure my therefore grossly UNinformed  "consent"  with a variety of heinous but seemingly previously well-practiced emotional and psychological pressure tactics? Despicable, the LOT of you.

And THIS is who you are being "educated" by? How much do you PAY for this "education"?

And regarding the physical, emotional and psychological abuse of my precious and sweet little dog who represented nothing more than lab rat value to your fine "educational" facility . . .

Did you know that the "Dean" of those hallowed halls you inhabit has threatened me with legal action for speaking out, if I should refuse to either stay silent or to participate in my own gaslighting by acquiescing to his official narrative? (You may pass on to him my sincerest regards and tell him he may take a flying leap at himself, BTW.)

Is this the type of "veterinary care" you want to practice out in the real world?

If any of you think ANY of this was and/or is, perfectly fine, dandy, and "just the way it is" in the vet game, then your careers have already been corrupted before you even set foot out there in a "normal" veterinary clinic.

God help the pets and the pets' owners who will be subjected to your ethics.

And no, Huxley, you and your high-priced gag order specialists and other legal henchmen can go to hell - a location you richly deserve to inhabit for lowering the ethics (to say nothing of the educational standards) of the Massey institution to this lethal level.. This post will remain right here where it sits. 

Below:  For a direct insight into the "Dean's" understanding of veterinary pharmacology, I give you Exhibit A (immediately below). On the left, is the 50mg dose administered to Harry three months before his fateful Massey visit (at that time, that vet had administered the Gabapentin for an actual genuine reason i.e. pain) that floored Harry for nearly 72 hours (see that vet's notes) . . . because even then, with his degree of kidney impairment he should not have been given a drug contraindicated for renally-impaired animals. On the right, per the Massey invoice, we can see that Huxley's proteges in the Massey ICU facility have administered FOUR TIMES that dosage i.e. 200mg. To be further noted, is that the ICU staff's notes in the "Clinical Summary" (that is all I have so far managed to extract from Massey) are so ambiguous and such a mess that it is unclear if Harry was administered 200mg or 300mg - as there are notes citing conflicting both figures.

In the panel below the table, is an excerpt from Veterinary School Dean Jon Huxley's gag order email, stating (as you can read) that "Harry received only those medications clinically indicated for his condition and in full accordance with accepted veterinary standards." The "condition" for which Harry received these "medications" supposedly "clinically indicated for his condition" was that (per the ICU staff's "Clinical Summary", he "was constantly vocalising from 12am to 2am" , albeit they started plying him with the Gabapentin i.e. 50mg (10mg more than a full dose for a healthy dog) at 1am, and then, without waiting more than 26 minutes, plied him with a further dose of an unstated amount. Before the king hit of another 50mg at 9am, after disconnecting him from his (what would by then have been life-saving) IV fluids at 8.38am (per Page 15 of the Clinical Summary).

To be clear, at the same time as they were loading a fragile, 15-year-old renally-impaired patient (admitted for the express purpose of urgent rehydration) with a 500% - 750% overdose of a convenience sedative for which the only route out of the body is the kidneys, the kidneys, which would then require even more urgent and even higher volumes of rehydration, they cut off the only thimble full of hydration they had been giving him just 8 hours and 38 minutes into a prescribed 24-hour protocol. From the ICU's own notes:

IV Fluids - 15ml/hr, Started at 12:00am 01/12/2025

Stopped to give 15ml bolus over 20min every hour - keeps tangling

Stopped at 8:38am 01/12/2025

Disconnecting Harry just one-third of the way in to a 24-hour protocol (that was already insufficient to rehydrate him even wtihout the Gabapentin overdosing) achieved two objectives for the Massey staff:  They no longer had to concern themselves with a "tangling" line (although the $198 Dura Flow Coil Mila line item on the invoice is designed specifically to prevent this situation) . . . leading to one remaining and sinister conclusion:  that Harry was disconnected from his life-saving IV fluids so that he could be extracted from his cage to facilitate the numerous above-mentioned tests performed on him for the benefit of Massey's veterinary students. After which, he was to be presented back to his owner with the narrative that "he has had a neurological event/decline and needs euthanased".

Note: Because Harry's renal clearance was reduced by approximately half, these percentages represent an even higher level of metabolic saturation and predictable toxicosis.

While Dean Huxley writes of communication “honesty”, his cc’d colleague, Professor Raymond Geor, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Sciences, was busy hitting “Delete” on MY attempts to honestly communicate.