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

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 repeated 750% unauthorised, contraindicated, convenience-sedation overdosings 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.


(HERE'S THE PROOF AND THE IMAGES, IF YOU HAVE THE STOMACH FOR THEM.)


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, overdosing 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". (A "vet", it should be noted that - both in my view and in my direct experience - should NEVER be allowed anywhere NEAR anyone's pet.)


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 dupe and pressure me into ending Harry's life.


Do you see the poor little contorted face? His severely  distorted left eye indicates acute internal pressure or systemic shock, typical of a biological system being chemically overwhelmed. The facial contortion with the asymmetry of  the lip and nose are indicative of severe chemically-induced physiological distress and advanced Central Nervous System shock.


In this photo, he is in near autonomic collapse, with his involuntary (breathing, heart rate, facial tension) systems failing under the weight of Massey's repeated, catastrophic overdosing. The contorted mask, or the physical pulling of the face, is a physical reaction to the massive over-sedation and the body's struggle to survive it . . . his sheer willpower, the willpower that this "Steffi" "vet" (who shouldn't be let anywhere  near anyone's pet) somehow succeeded in duping me into believing was "his last hurrah".


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 two 750% overdoses 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 (and never returned to) his life-saving IV fluids so that he could be extracted from his cage to facilitate the numerous below-mentioned tests (and likely, many others) performed on him for the benefit of Massey's veterinary students.  (I have learned, albeit not because they told me, that eight teaching videos were made of him, six of which they refuse to release, despite their legal obligations to do so. In other words, Harry was "content" for their "productions".)


According to the plan, Harry was to be presented back to me with the narrative that "he has had a neurological event/decline and needs euthanased".


A private, high-needs geriatric patient was downgraded to a "living anatomy lesson" for unauthorised student training:  the usage of a tiny, blind, 15-year-old dog in acute distress as a training tool for junior staff or students without the owner’s knowledge or informed consent . . . following incomprehensible acts of malpractice and sheer recklessness, the effects of which still had a chance of being reversed had the ICU and day staff wanted to.


This wasn't just a "failure of care"; it was 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).


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 their withholding of 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 overdosings 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 500% to 750% Gabapentin overdoses . . . 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: 500% to 750% overdoses 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? (And would you have cared?)

"Because Gabapentin is almost exclusively eliminated by the kidneys, it must be used with caution and at reduced dosages in patients with renal impairment."


— Source: Plumb’s Veterinary Drug Handbook (Clinical Pharmacology)

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 been disconnected from his IV fluids line and the prescribed 24-hour protocol discontinued just 8.5 hours in, 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 flipping 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 massively over-sedated with three doses of Gabapentin totaling 150mg-200mg (or possibly 300mg; your notes are utterly incompetent and inconsistent) i.e. dispensed for the equivalent of a healthy, robust 15kg dog while he was 3.8kg - and potentiated with Maropitant (Prevomax) 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 attempting 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.


And other, non-documented and significantly worse experimentation i.e. with the ghoulish and psychologically tormenting procedures performed on him during the making of the actual training videos (made on cell phones) in which he was utilised.


Those hours of his life were sheer, unadulterated lab rat-style torture - in a massively drugged, deeply dehydrated state, being used as a live teaching aid and filmed from all angles. In one cynical “still” shot sent by Massey in place of the actual videos they are required to release, a male hand holds him up from underneath, suspending him high in the air, while sedated and hanging limply in mid-air from that cruel hand.  And that, believe it or not, was just one of six highly sanitised, equipment-blacked out stills i.e. in place of the release of the actual videos themselves.


We have all heard stories of humans who, while undergoing surgery, have actually been fully conscious mentally while their physical body was anaesthetised.


That is the equivalent state my little Harry was in, when you were conducting all your cruel and invasive experiments on him.


And, to "Steffi":  You thought I'd never learn that, in fact, that was the EXACT state that Harry was in, when he was giving it his valiant all to respond to my commands to show me his "strong leggies" . . . that you wickedly laughed off as "just his last hurrah".


You KNEW what he was trying so desperately to communicate to me when he suddenly rose up on his back legs and started screaming as you leaned in the van door with your syringes and equipment . . . and made me pull him down onto his tummy so you could get your substance into him before I could realise it, too. You were FULLY aware of what I wasn't, until it was all too late.


Multiple Acts of Aggravated Cruelty on A Blind Dog


Perhaps your "teachers" should also have made you aware that by conducting your experiments and procedures on a blind dog you were performing multiple acts of aggravated cruelty, that represented a total abandonment of veterinary ethics.


In any medical setting, blindness is considered a profound vulnerability.


When you remove a dog's primary sense, they rely entirely on the integrity of their environment and the trust of their handlers for psychological safety. By using a blind dog as a "teaching utility", Massey crossed a line from malpractice into what can only be described as psychological warfare against a helpless patient.


A blind dog exists in a world of sound and touch. When Harry was subjected to your lab-rat-style experimentation, he had no visual way to anticipate your (notably) cruel handling of him or your equipment. Every touch was a jump-scare; every manipulation was an unexpected violation.


And one that he couldn't respond to from within his chemical straitjacket (a term that your Dean Jon Huxley has very specifically threatened to set the University's big-budget law firm, Buddle Findlay, onto me if I should dare to use.)


Blind dogs are naturally more hyper-vigilant. Their adrenaline levels spike faster in response to the unknown. Conducting your invasive experiments on Harry would have added to his already physical pain and psycnological terror, the burden of a continual over-stimulation of his nervous system - a nervous system that was already working overtime to make sense of a terrifying, suddenly very hostile, sightless world - and without his anchor, me.


How you all opportunised his circumstances, in true predatory fashion.


Legally and ethically, a "hospital"  has an enhanced duty of care toward vulnerable patients. Just as a human hospital would be more culpable for abusing a patient with a disability, a veterinary hospital is more culpable for abusing an animal with a sensory deficit.


In short, you reprehensibly experimented on a disabled dog . . . a disabled dog you already had in a catastrophic state, and you removed his only biologically supporting framework - his life-essential hydrating IV fluids - to facilitate that abuse . . . and you never reinstated those fluids. In fact, you slammed him with a further 50mg overdose of Gabapentin, even after (9am)  you'd taken his fluids from him at 8.38am (by the way you made sure to charge me for the 24 hours you never gave him).


Why? Because he was destined - after you finished with him - to be presented back to me under the guise of some "neurological event" and the plan to pressure me for his urgent "euthanasia". Simple. Easy peasy evidence destruction strategy.


To add intense insult to injury (literally) - and in the manner of true predatory opportunists - you chose the most vulnerable patient in the ward to use as a training prop because he was the easiest target.


And it's also my belief that you chose him specifically because he was MINE.


'Hospital' vs Animal Research Lab


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 don't hold them high in the air with one hand to survey whatever you were surveying. You don't perform any of the other acts indicated by even by the few carefully curated still images you have been forced to release (with half the image covered in solid black blocks to obscure the equipment you were deploying on my little blind and intensely vulnerable dog).


You stabilise the life-threatening condition.


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


Along with other, more intentionally pain-provoking, psychologically tormenting "procedures" for filming purposes.


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.


The last thing he wants the world to see - most especially now he has suddenly been shaken out of his own arrogant stupor and realised who he's dealing with - is the true nature of the show he's presiding over there.


The 'Tangled IV Line' 'Justification' for Conversion from 'Patient' to 'Training Aid'


Yet it was even worse and far more sinister than "just" the above cruelty and abuse.


At 8.38am, someone had taken the decision to actively change Harry's status from a hospital patient to a status of sheer institutional utility.


Buried deep in the bowels and the tiny typeface of Page 15 of the Companion Animal Hospital ICU's "Clinical Summary" was the smoking gun of all smoking guns:


The 8-hour-and-38-minutes-in complete cessation of the prescribed 24-hour rehydration protocol (which in its own right had only "maintenance" value and certainly not the required therapeutic value).


From Page 15 of the "Clinical Summary":


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's life-essential fluids - most especially while now in the peaks of an already massive overdose of potentiated Gabapentin - just one-third of the way in to a 24-hour protocol (that was already insufficient to rehydrate him even without the Gabapentin overdosing) with the ludicrous excuse of a "tangling" IV line in the face of the $198 Dura Flow Coil Mila line item on the invoice i.e. that is designed specifically to prevent this situation - was a clear and present signal of management and staff's intention for him.


It was an active decision to convert him for "use" as educational value and, by extension, to uncaringly impose a death sentence upon him.

One Device. Two Lies.

 
The
“tangled IV line” as the reason for discontinuing a 24-hour life-essential protocol 8.5 hours in – while utterly pathetic and unacceptable in its own right for any clinician, let alone an ICU ward – was a fully fabricated “justification”.

 

The heavy blue cast-like bandage I referred to in my earlier articles, turns out to be a Mila Dura Flow Coil – a high-end specialist device to prevent the exact problem being used as the excuse for cutting off the fluids Harry now needed more desperately than ever,.


Wickedly, the staff making the decision to deprive him of his, by that time, life-essential fluids, knew full well that his impaired kidneys needed increased hydration, to have any chance of flushing through the catastrophic, 500% - 750% accumulating overdose of the renally-contraindicated, convenience sedative they had slammed him multiple times with in the course of nine hours.

The
Mila Dura Flow Coil also serves to highlight a second lie:

 

“Steffi” (in her well-after-the-fact, posthumous SOAP notes) and “her neurologist” (as she had referred to her when convincing me of this “neurological event” that somehow explained the massive change in Harry overnight) had referred to him as “obtunded”.

 

But you don’t put a Mila Dura Flow Coil on an “obtunded” dog. You use it for its designed purpose: to ensure that the IV line into a very active little dog’s leg is not dislodged by his very UNobtunded activity  and movements.

 
To be clear: Harry was far from “obtunded” until Massey ICU staff and “clinicians” chemically “obtunded” him.

But is just keep getting even worse, doesn't it, Students? If that were possible . . . yet it seemed no malfeasance or cruelty was beyond the capabilities of your superiors and teaching staff.


Because after wilfully disconnecting the only hope Harry had of possibly surviving the already something like 500% to 750% overdose he had already been administered and that would have slammed even a robustly healthy dog with non-impaired kidneys, then 22 minutes later you slammed him with yet ANOTHER full-dog full-day dose of 50mg of Gabapentin . . . and now with NO fluids whatsever - not even the thimble-full you'd been allowing him - to flush them through his poor little massively-struggling kidneys. You stacked another substantial overdose on TOP of the already catastrophic overdoses  he'd been given in the previous seven hours.


And all of this, by the way, as you'll see from your erstwhile Dean of the Veterinary School, Jon Huxley's emailed legal threat that I've quoted at the bottom of this article, was apparently given to him as "clinically indicated for his condition", and "in full accordance with accepted veterinary standards". This ethically-impaired clown is your "Dean"? Your head teacher? Or does he just think that the average pet owner can't perform a basic internet search of the international veterinary literature?


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 THREE 500% - 750% overdoses 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.

Moral Injury: 

For anyone who can handle it, here are nine raw, unedited audio minutes that provide a direct window into the trail of emotional destruction left in the wake of the unconscionable decisions and actions of the subhumans involved in Harry’s overdose; in his emotional, psychological and physical torture, and in the heinous false pretences that had me consent to his execution . . .


. . . the cold, clinical killing that might actually, even then, have been unnecessary, had you disclosed the true nature of his presentation to me, such that I could have gotten him the hell out of there to safety and true emergency care.

In a not-insignificant aside, I have already -in this previous article - expressed a strong suspicion that Harry may well have been targeted for this sort of abuse because his owner (me) has been a fearless critic, for at least the past two years, of the concerning standards of the Companion Animal Hospital, . . .  having numerous times either voiced or put in writing, those concerns to the Practice Manager, Pauline Nijman.


If any Student or staff member has the required backbone and conscience to provide any insights into whether or not this played a role in what was done to Harry, I urge you to contact me on this direct line: 06 657 0161, or to email me to contact you, at editor@consumeraffairswriter.com. I would also like to know the names of the staff and management who participated in these criminal acts against my beloved pet, since every single one of them has been replaced - in the "Clinical Summary" - with a solid black box. And, or course, I am having to submit the matter as a formal complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to obtain the majority of Harry's records from Massey's Legal and Governance department who continues to withhold them, illegally.


Personal & Professional Liability of Staff and Students


To the staff and students who participated in the wilful cessation of Harry's life-essential fluid delivery protocol in favour of his conversion to "lab rat" status, and then further participated in the ghoulish use of him as a live training aid, you might wish to acquaint yourselves with your own legal liabilities.


To this end, you will find the following insights of value:


While the institution (Massey) bears the primary legal liability as the "entity," the individuals - both staff and students - who participated in or facilitated this utter atrocity face significant professional and ethical exposure.


In the eyes both of the law and of professional regulatory bodies (yes, even the ones your superiors believe they can count on to "disappear" or deny-on-their-behalf any formal complaints), "I was just following orders" or "I was just a student observing" is not a valid defence when a statutory breach or animal welfare violation is occurring.


The ramifications are governed by more than one set of legislation, but let us start with the Veterinary Council of New Zealand (VCNZ) Code of Professional Conduct.


  • Professional Misconduct:  If a vet knows a patient has been overdosed (let alone in the order of 500% -750%) and then participates in a "narrative shift" (such as the "neurological event/decline" fabrication), they are committing Professional Misconduct.


  • The "Duty to Disclose":  Vets have a mandatory ethical duty to be honest with clients. Participating in the "conversion" of a patient to a "test subject" without the owner's consent is a direct violation of their licence.


  • The Paper Trail:  Every person who signed off on the 8.38am disconnection of what by then equated directly to Harry's life support without intervening is professionally tethered to this malfeasance. You aren't just "witnesses"; you are participants in a clinical sabotage.


Student Exposure: "Accessory" or "Witness"?


If students were used to perform tests on a dog that was pharmacologically stupified and disconnected from life-saving fluids, they are in a precarious position.


  • Ethical Contamination:  By training students on a "patient" who is actually a "victim of malpractice", Massey is essentially teaching the next generation that deception is a standard clinical tool.


  • Future Licensing:  If an investigation proves that students knowingly participated in unauthorised experiments on Harry, it could impact their "fitness to practice" when they apply for their own licences.


  • Silence IS Consent:  Under the Animal Welfare Act, any person in charge of an animal (which includes students during a rotation) who fails to provide for its physical needs is liable. If a student saw a dehydrated, overdosed dog being used as a prop instead of being treated, that student is technically in breach of the Act.


Legal Firm: Institutional Complicity


And, specifically for the edification of Dean Jon Huxley, by hiring a law firm to suppress Official Information Act and Privacy Act requests, the Governance and Legal Executives at Massey have moved into the realm of Institutional Obstruction.


  • Accessories After the Fact:  While usually a criminal term, the principle applies here. If the legal team is using public funds to "doctor the narrative" and hide evidence, they are acting as accessories to the original clinical malfeasance. They are no longer "protecting the university"; they are concealing a breach of the Animal Welfare Act and the Consumer Guarantees Act.


The Flow-On Domino Effect


If, in this instance, the Veterinary Council of New Zealand is acting in genuine accordance with its mandate to enforce the Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinarians, then every licensed individual staff member faces a potential striking off or a suspension of their licence.


The students face a tainted degree that signals they were trained in an environment where malpractice was the curriculum.


And the Dean faces a ministerial inquiry into the use of public funds for intimidation through the use of a law firm.

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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 150mg, 200mg, or 300mg - as there are notes citing all three conflicting 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 THREE 500% - 750% overdoses 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. 


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

See below for one of the "Deleted without being read" notices from Massey's upper management: 


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 (as were the other half a dozen or so of his colleagues at his same "esteemed" institutional "leadership" level).


To Huxley and Geor:


I want the truth about what happened to Harry's body.


Why did the Pet Farewells pet cremation company staffer tell me Harry had been   "picked up with all the other post-mortems", "in a bag", and that she "was told" that I "didn't want Harry back"?


Did you cut up my precious little Harry in some completely unauthorised post-mortem student teaching exercise - on top of everything ELSE you did to him?


Whilst "Steffi" gave me a bullshit story that he'd been laid out "carefully" and unblemished "with all his toys" for his private cremation?


A story that, in retrospect, is in no way consistent with her either order to, or participation in, the decision to disconnect his life-essential fluids after she had seen his catastrophic drug overdose, of her having organised and overseen his literal torture as a training aid, her unconscionable deception of me as his having had a "neurological event" instead of disclosure that he was massively over-sedated but was trying desperately to push his way out of it, her visceral disdain of him as I had held him in my arms pleading for his survival, and her revolting acts (making me hold him down while he kicked and screamed, and ripping the cap off the syringe with her teeth to ensure the job got done before I could change my mind) at the point of her termination of him?


The below one-hour and three-minute phone recording demonstrates my fruitless (to this day) efforts to have my situation escalated to maybe, just maybe, get Harry's ashes back (which I want ONLY if they actually are his). Note: Massey has NO veterinary complaints escalation procedure, as you are about to hear.


They do enjoy the opportunity to entertain themselves with a frustrated client, however:

And why, Jon Huxley and Massey's Legal and Governance personnel, have you failed both your Privacy Act obligations AND your Official Information Act obligations by refusing to release any information regarding this "inconsistency" i.e. between this picture and the fact that I had ordered that my dog be sent for special individual-chamber cremation so I could be sure I received his ashes and ONLY his ashes back?


If you did in fact, use Harry as a post-mortem opportunity for your students, Jon Huxley, may the flames that consumed his brutalised and dismembered little body like slaughterhouse waste (which he indeed was to you, to your staff, to "Steffi" the frontwoman for this entire atrocity, and to your ethically-compromised "veterinary" students), one day consume you with equal ferocity as you rot in hell.


In the meantime, since Massey refuses to offer any assistance related to Harry's ashes: 


Here are my ongoing attempts to extract some honest answers from (now I've had to resort to) some pet cremators' international industry membership organisation in the United States.


I'm trying to reach an informed conclusion (if one is even possible) as to whether the ashes that suddenly re-materialised on someone's table are actually Harry's.


That is, after my no-doubt memorable reaction to receiving a call from the pet crematorium staff member to ask for a "$120 disposal fee" (with some of their other obviously accidental disclosures that I've mentioned just up above in this section) resulted in their immediate retraction and Harry apparently suddenly being "tucked up here on the table".

Other News, Reviews & Commentary

by Jordan Kelly 28 March 2026
The story of how unspeakably cruel, unaccountable, intentionally unnamed staff at Massey University's Companion Animal 'Hospital' repeatedly overdosed, abused, tortured, covertly converted private property (my pet) to a University "educational" resource to produce twisted student films on cell phones , while plotting to deceive me, Jordan Kelly, into believing a false sudden "neurological event/decline" diagnosis ta coerce me into signing papers for my beloved little papillon, Harry's, immediate "euthanasia" , has now reached all corners of the globe and every shore and region of New Zealand. So too has the corrupt relationship between the national industry "regulator" (so-called), the Veterinary Council of New Zealand, and Massey University, as the two interlinked organisations have scrambled to rely on the same old tactics and strategies that hove worked seamlessly for them for decades . . . to see them arrogantly and summarily dismiss complaints from pet owners - one after the other, after the other, after the other. Neither organisation nor the broader cast of characters involved in this sordid ordeal bargained on coming up against Harry's owner, however. None of them bargained on this owner's love and dedication to her beloved little Harry. None of them bargained on this pet owner's unwavering tenacity and investigative chops. And certainly none of them bargained on the entire series of articles this owner has now produced (and is yet to produce) - both across this public ation and in the newly-launched International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics. But most of all, none of them bargained for the international, and full-scale national, deep-dive readership I'm sure, by now, they've heard through their various channels, they're receiving. Daily. Increasingly. Obsessively. Those readers - the ones that aren't monitoring institutions, regulators and veterinary sector participants, but rather are my fellow pet parents - care deeply about what happened to Harry (because they've expressed it in submissions through this website), and they most certainly care about their own pets and educating themselves to ensure against any fate even approaching Harry's, from befalling them. It's for me, for them, and for Harry, that i hereby publish my response to the belated, buried, and begrudging Veterinary Council of New Zealand's (VCNZ) offer to source the names of those involved in the matter, from the recalcitrant Massey University. If this matter were continued under cover of darkness, as both the VCNZ, and the " leadership " and staff of its veterinary teaching facility (the facility they have the gall to misname "Companion Animal Hospital") would vehemently prefer it was, it would get no further than the 1.5% ( not a typo, that's one point five percent) of complaints that ever make it through the VCNZ "process" to any form of resolution (which probably isn't much, anyway). So in the interests of shining light into dark and seedy corners of New Zealand's veterinary sector, here's my March 29 letter to Liam Shields, the VCNZ's Deputy Registrar, in response to his March 19 cover letter that accompanied the Privacy Act information disclosure he and his CEO, Iain McLachlan gave up only through legal obligation . . . and that, as you will read is, even so, both redacted and incomplete. March 29, 2026 To: VCNZ Deputy Registrar, Liam Shields Dear Mr Shields Thank you for your letter of March 19, 2026 and the accompanying Privacy Act disclosure. On your offer to assist with the provision of names and position titles: In response to your offer to source the names and position titles of all involved parties, I accept – with the requirement that this be a complete and unredacted list, not a partial or selective one . Specifically, and as a matter of primary urgency, I require the unredacted names and professional roles of every individual at Massey University who had any involvement whatsoever with Harry Kelly – including but not limited to: Every clinician, intern, student, and support staff member involved in his "care", “treatment”, handling and any and all associated decision-making processes, during the period of November 30 and December 1, 2025. The above category of requirement must include the licensed veterinarians that (a) the rotating intern, "Dr" Stephanie Rigg ( who misrepresented herself to me as a seasoned, senior veterinarian ), should have been supervised by, and (b) the licensed practitioner that was or should have been responsible for the intaking staff member (who I am advised by another aggrieved client of the facility - but whom is too frightened to speak out themselves because of Dean Jon Huxley's legal threat to me for doing so - also bears the name of "Stephanie"). It should be noted that I was almost certain at the time that she (the very young "Stephanie" i.e. her name was not known to me at the time) was lying when she assured me she was a graduated and fully qualified veterinarian in her own right. Given what I know now about the lack of experience and ethics with which the Companion Animal "Hospital" is staffed, I am even closer to being fully convinced that she was not a qualified vet, but rather, still a student. As I had commented in my published article , 'Massey Vet Teaching Hospital: Where Empathy Goes to Die' , this staff member looked barely old enough to have been out of high school, was clearly out of her depth, and not only had no authority over the two ICU attendants (who were engaged in social conversation and refusing any attention to Harry as he stood up in his cage screaming in terror with his legs dangerously, especially for a blind dog, outstretched through the grid of the cage door ), and despite my pleas, refused to exercise any authority over these ICU staff. In retrospect, it would seem now that this very young woman was not in a position of qualified authority to do so. Clearly, Practice Manager Pauline Nijman has at least conjoint responsibility for staffing rosters, but there must also be - in a veterinary teaching establishment - present, direct reporting chains in place at all times. If this was not the case during Harry's admission and time in the "ICU" facility, then the two licensed practitioners bearing ultimate responsibility for this failure (including its obvious systemic nature) would be Jon Huxley, the Dean of the Veterinary School , and Jenny Weston, the Dean of Massey's Veterinary Teaching Program . I place particular emphasis on this point purely because - given the Veterinary Council's already-demonstrated protectionism towards, and degree of collusion with, Massey University, its leadership and its staff - I firmly believe that you will take the opportunity to disingenuously optimise every possible technicality to avoid accountability for as many staff as you can. Every individual involved in the selection or administration of any drug or substance to Harry Kelly during that period, whether authorised, and whether documented / recorded, or otherwise . The "undocumented" and "unrecorded" element of this requirement is especially important, given Massey's continued refusal to release the Controlled Drugs Register and, in fact, its outright breach of the complete Official Information Act request of which this was a key part. To be noted, and as I made clear to Massey, I have asked for this critical document due to the demonstrable difference in Harry's condition showing between the multiple covert student videos taken of him on cell phones that morning (in outright contempt for my firm verbal and written instructions to Practice Manager, Pauline Nijman, and on forms, that Harry should NEVER be used as a training tool ) and when he was presented to me some six hours later with the ( what I now know to be just an intern's ) demand that he be "euthanased" (and the fact that the "Clinical Summary" records his last unnecessary contraindicated sedative overdose as having been at 9am i.e. 1.5 hours prior to the student activity for which he was obviously further catastrophically sedated and permanently disconnected from his critical IV fluids. Every individual involved in, present during, or who authorised or participated in any filming or recording of Harry Kelly during his time in the Massey facility. Every individual involved in making, documenting, or communicating the bogus “neurological” diagnosis (that has been clearly demonstrated to have been bogus ) used to coerce his “euthanasia ”. (So as to avoid my inadvertently creating a opportunisable loophole either for you or for Massey, you should include the alternative term that will have been used in the official narrative no doubt framed for your benefit and for his, by the compromised Veterinary School Dean Jon Huxley i.e. "recommended" "euthanasia".) Every individual involved in the decision to push for the “euthanasia” of Harry Kelly, and in the carrying out of that “euthanasia”. Every individual involved in the handling of Harry Kelly's body following his death ( achieved by way of abuse, scheme and deception ) on December 1, 2025. Every individual involved in the creation, alteration, falsification or scrubbing of Harry Kelly's clinical and financial records , specifically including but not limited to: · The Clinical Summary ( the broader contents and claims of which, it should be noted, are inconsistent with (a) the facts, (b) prior records, and (c) logic (including between one part thereof and another, and have clearly been altered and added to posthumously) – in which a false neurological diagnosis narrative was constructed to justify the coerced "euthanasia" . · The Patient Change Log (Field-Level Audit) – in which the recorded time of death (false in its own right) was subsequently manually overwritten with 0:00, in a deliberate act of forensic scrubbing to eliminate the timestamp from any future audit or investigation. · The Euthanasia Authorisation form – pre-typed before my arrival at the facility and prior to any decision I was prepared to make , bearing timestamps inconsistent with the Patient Change Log. · Billing Record 636969 – in which a billable quantity was manually inflated from 1.6 to 4.0 units at 16:56 on December 1, 2025 – two minutes after the falsified time of death – and further manipulated through to approximately 19:20 on the same date. · The simultaneous triggering of both "Deceased" and "Discharge" status entries in the clinical records management system – mutually exclusive administrative statuses whose concurrent activation constitutes a documented administrative collision revealing the fraudulent closure of a live patient's file i.e. in a frenzied rush to avoid the new incoming night shift staff from questioning or investigating the day's events. · The manual "data scrub" of December 3, 2025 – performed two days after Harry Kelly's death by an individual with high-level system access, deliberately overwriting forensic evidence to obstruct any future audit, investigation or legal proceedings. All of the above conduct is the subject of Police Report OR-2484821N and engages Sections 258 (altering a document with intent to deceive), 260 (falsifying registers) and 219 (theft by conversion) of the Crimes Act 1961 (updated as part of the Crimes Amendment Act 2003). I note that Privacy Act 2020 Principle 11(e) permits this disclosure in order to uphold a statutory regulatory process, and that Massey's blanket redaction of all clinician identities is being utilised to subvert my right to file a VCNZ complaint . I further note that a Senior Standards and Advice Officer and Solicitor at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (UK) - an accrediting organisation of Massey - has confirmed in writing that veterinarians are expected to provide their names to clients so as not to prevent them from raising a conduct concern. This is an obligation that applies regardless of whether the individual is employed by a university or a private practice. On the Apparent Glitch In Your Correspondence I note that the Privacy Act disclosure includes email correspondence between Massey University and the VCNZ — specifically, a private email from Massey's Dean of Veterinary Science, Jon Huxley, to VCNZ leadership, characterising my complaint as "wholly unfounded" before any investigation has been conducted, and ending with a friendly invitation for you to contact him for his, i.e. the apparently official, version. Your letter makes no reference whatsoever to the VCNZ's response to receiving that email, either at the time of receipt or in the period since. Quite frankly, it would be a naive individual who would believe that you and/or your CEO, Iain McLachlan, and/or your point of direct connectivity between the two organisations, Seton Butler, didn't respond to - and, far more likely, enter into communication with - Dean Jon Huxley as a result of receiving that email ( signed " Jon " ) from him. I require a full account of the actions the VCNZ took upon receiving Dean Huxley's private communication, who else received it, and all subsequent communications and related discussions and decisions - which, I suspect, included the two anonymous parties with whom you and your VCNZ colleague, Jamie Shanks, discussed me and the matter, but refuse to disclose any details thereof. On the Redacted Microsoft Teams Message I challenge your refusal to disclose in full the Microsoft Teams message/s between yourself and Jamie Shanks. You have redacted the names of two individuals on the basis of section 53(b)(i). However, given that at the time of that communication you had not assisted me with the provision of names (and still have not) nor in any other way helped me with submitting a complaint (and still have not) - and therefore had no complaint formally before you (and still have not) - I require to know: who were you discussing me with, in what capacity, for what purpose, and on whose instruction? I would appreciate the full name, role, purpose and nature of the communications involving those redacted individuals. I am considering a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner regarding this redaction. On the Internal Contradiction In Your Letter Regarding Conflicts of Interest Your letter contains a direct contradiction. In your paragraph 11 you state that Professor Jenny Weston "has no involvement with CAC (Complaints Assessment Committee) investigations and decision-making." Yet, in your paragraph 12 you state that "the Council are legally required to review all CAC decisions". Professor Weston sits on the Council. Therefore Professor Weston is involved in reviewing CAC decisions - including any decision relating to my complaint about Massey University i.e. the institution whose veterinary academic program she directs. Just saying, Mr Shields. On Your Suggestion That I Contact Massey University for Assistance Am I to interpret this as outright contempt, or gaslighting, or both, Mr Shields? I do not believe that, at this stage, you are ignorant of Massey’s refusal to provide the names of the parties required for me to lay complaints with the Veterinary Council. I do not believe that, since you have been copied in on two months of repeated, multi-angled, fervent requests to Massey , which - as you know, and as you know I know - is obligated legally, morally, and by international “best practice” standards to provide these (and not to have blacked them all out, in the first instance, from the subset of records I have managed to extract), as well as in accordance with New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 and the Official Information Act 1982 . . . the instruments of our country's law through which I have so far unsuccessfully sought their release. I also do not believe you are ignorant of all the associated coverage on this website that details every minute aspect of this situation and its current status, Mr Shields. And if you are, it is to your shame, Mr Shields, given the gravity of the matter, including each and every individual, reported aspect thereof. Further, I do not believe I need to explain to the Deputy Registrar of the VCNZ why directing a complainant back to the demonstrably obstructive source entity of their complaint for assistance is entirely inconsistent with VCNZ's stated mandate of "having timely and transparent processes" and "upholding veterinary standards to protect people and animals". On Massey University's Ongoing OIA Non-Compliance Additionally, Mr Shields - since you are now, belatedly, offering - yes, there is something else you could absolutely assist me with. As you know and further to the above, the Official Information Act 1982 is the cornerstone legislation governing the mandated release of information held by publicly-funded institutions in New Zealand. It is an errant institution, contemptuous indeed of New Zealand law, that thumbs its nose at its OIA obligations . . . which, as you know, and as stressed above, is exactly what Massey University has done. I am still waiting for any communication regarding my OIA request that was due on March 13, 2026. Given your close relationship with Massey, and your no doubt desire to assist me proceed in a timely manner with the laying of multiple complaints - in keeping with the VCNZ's own stated objectives of "upholding veterinary standards to protect people and animals", "having timely and transparent processes", and its vision for "Aotearoa to have the world's most trusted veterinary profession" - I would expect you to be most amenable to urging Massey to act in a manner conducive to those objectives. As a reminder of the information I await from Massey - all directly relevant to the content of the complaints that need to be formulated for your organisation - the outstanding OIA items include but are certainly not limited to ( the below is excerpted from the OIA request also published here , as you’re of course, already aware): 1. Identity of Clinicians: The unredacted names and professional roles of all staff involved in the "care", treatment, and handling in any way of Harry Kelly during the November 30 and December 1, 2025 period, and also in the period following his death on December 1, 2025, including all staff involved in the handling of his body. 2. Conflict of Interest Disclosures (Seton Butler) : All internal records, disclosures, and management plans regarding Seton Butler's dual role as a Massey University Adjunct Lecturer and his professional advisory role at the VCNZ - and all communications of any type relating to Jordan Kelly or Harry Kelly. (**I DO BELIEVE THESE SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN YOUR OWN PRIVACY ACT DISCLOSURE PACKAGE TO ME, BUT WERE NOT.**) 3. Instructional Content Authorisation : All internal documentation, ethics committee approvals, or funding agreements related to the production of "instructional content" or clinical studies in the ICU or any other part of Massey University and/or its Companion Animal Hospital during the period of Harry Kelly's admission, and including while his body was in Massey's possession. 4. Pet Farewells Communications: All communications with Pet Farewells regarding Harry Kelly and Jordan Kelly. Specifically, not a general commentary. 5. Post-Mortem Activity : Disclosure of whether or not an unauthorised post-mortem was performed on Harry Kelly. 6. Controlled Drugs Register: All entries in the Controlled Drugs Register pursuant to the Medicines Act 1981 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, as they relate to the dispensing, administration, or recording of any controlled or prescription substance administered to Harry Kelly during November 30 and December 1, 2025, or to his remains. 7. Patient Record Access Log and Audit Trail : The unredacted Field-Level Audit Log and all associated system access logs identifying every staff member who accessed, viewed, created, amended, "updated" or deleted any entry in Harry Kelly's electronic patient record from November 30, 2025, to the date of Massey's response. 8. Conflict of Interest Disclosures (Jenny Weston) : All internal records, disclosures, and management plans regarding Dr Jenny Weston's dual role as Massey University Academic Program Director and her ex officio VCNZ membership - and all communications of any type relating to Jordan Kelly or Harry Kelly. 9. ICU Video Footage of Harry Kelly: The release in full of all video footage taken of Harry Kelly during his ICU admission on November 30 and December 1, 2025, and any taken after his death. Massey's previous refusal to release the footage in full is not considered adequate compliance and is not accepted. In Conclusion, Mr Shields I remain deeply concerned about the VCNZ's refusal to perform its mandated role, and about the appalling complaint uphold rate documented in the VCNZ's own published research - co-authored previously by Professor Weston herself - which recorded that, over a 24-year period, 67.2% of complaints were either not investigated at all or were dismissed outright, with a mere 1.5% upheld, and only then, on technical competency grounds . Combined with the unashamed reticence you have shown in facilitating this egregious complaint (and regarding which your March 19 email directs me to your website to fill out a form regarding), I intend to hold the Veterinary Council of New Zealand publicly accountable for a transparent process in this particular case. When a veterinary "hospital" and its staff overdose , abuse, torture, conduct twisted student activities upon while in a state of the pharmacological collapse they have induced him into, intentionally engineer his most unnecessary death , and coerce me under false diagnosis to not only consenting to my dog's traumatic killing but having to equally traumatically participate in it , I tend to take the matter rather personally . As quite a large proportion of pet owners, in fact, would. Between The Customer & The Constituent NZ and the International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics , this case is being read by a New Zealand audience spanning from Invercargill to Northland, and internationally across the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the United States, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and South Africa. Regulatory bodies in several of those jurisdictions have been formally notified and are actively monitoring developments. This will be your opportunity to demonstrate that the Veterinary Council of New Zealand is capable of executing its regulatory duties in an ethical, honest and responsible manner. Or not. I look forward to receiving the complete list of names and position titles so that I can proceed with formal complaints against each relevant individual. One Last Point of Note, Regarding VCNZ's Chief Executive Officer In closing, I note that your Chief Executive Officer, Mr Iain McLachlan, has had so little concern - other than what appears very much to be to protect Massey University, its veterinary facility and its personnel from accountability - that he has ignored the multiple communications on which he has been cc'd for months regarding this matter, and the many provisions of the Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinarians in New Zealand ("administered" by your own organisation) that Massey's veterinary "teaching hospital" is in clear and in arguable breach of ( per my January 17 article on The Customer & The Constituent and the Open Letter to him that I published alongside it ). He initially endeavoured to avoid having to respond to my request for the (albeit incomplete and redacted) information you have now provided when I initially asked for it under the Official Information Act and chose to decline that request, apparently hoping I wouldn't know I had a right to it under the Privacy Act. Now, in a statement of open contempt, he has flicked off to you the responsibility for "dealing" with me, which you are hoping to conclude by way of directing me to fill out a form on your website. And so, I would ask, if a matter of such gravity as is represented by the Harry Kelly case, is not worthy of your Chief Executive's attention, just how bad does a set of circumstances have to be, and how obviously systemic does it have to appear within an organisation (New Zealand's only veterinary "teaching" facility, no less) before it is considered one of serious concern to the Veterinary Council of New Zealand? Or is the answer to that reflected by the fact that only an inconceivable 1.5% of all complaints (notwithstanding those that are never made) to your Council are upheld . . . and only then, on grounds of "technical competency" . . . with no concern for any complaints where a compromise in ethics has played an obvious part? If none of this is of any concern to Mr Iain McLachlan, as the head of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand, it begs the question, what does Mr McLachlan do all day? Perhaps he spends his time drafting the Standards, aims and goals that your very actions and decisions are actively designed to ensure are never actually achieved. Yours sincerely Jordan Kelly Editor-in-Chief, The Customer & The Constituent NZ Executive Director, International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics (IIIVE)
by Jordan Kelly 22 March 2026
Actually, Huxley, Notwithstanding That Their Loyalty to You and to Massey Prevents It, It's the VCNZ's JOB to 'Be Drawn Into It'. That's How They Get to See That It's Anything BUT A 'Wholly Unfounded Complaint'. It's Also More than Just A 'Complaint'. As You Have Long Since Known.
by Jordan Kelly 15 March 2026
Editor’s Conclusion : Unsupervised. Unaccountable. Uninvestigated. And Still Accredited.
by Jordan Kelly 10 March 2026
UPDATED: 16.3.26 Will This Badly Behaving Institution Finally Allow the Full Truth to Be Revealed? (16.3.26: MASSEY BREACHED ALL ITEMS ON THE BELOW OIA; TOTALLY IGNORED THEIR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS. NO COMMUNICATION. A HUGE NO-NO IN THE NZ CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK.)
by Jordan Kelly 8 March 2026
Hidden in Plain Sight: Unashamed Conflicts of Interest to Make Your Head Spin
by Jordan Kelly 4 March 2026
Time for Change : New Zealand's Pet Parents Say NO MORE to the Poor Standards, Compromised Care & Outright Contempt We Put Up With from the 'Products' of the Massey Veterinary Degree Factory
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.
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 . 
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
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.
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