Complaints Against Veterinarians:
If you have a complaint against a licensee, you must call the Board office and request an "Official Complaint Form".
Persons wishing to file a complaint against a licensed veterinarian may do so by completing the form furnished by the Board. The complaint should contain detailed information (names, dates, etc.) on what events occurred that appeared to involve unethical or unprofessional conduct by a veterinarian; a copy of the patient's medical record should be submitted with the complaint.
The owner of the animal must file the complaint - the Board cannot accept a complaint filed by a second party.
A complaint must be filed within one year from the time the incident occurred until the time the complaint is filed.
After the complaint is received in the Board office, the veterinarian is required to respond in writing and instructed to forward all pertinent medical documents for the Board's review.
Upon receipt of the veterinarian's answer, the matter is placed on the agenda of the next meeting of the Board and the members are sent all the information pertaining to the case. The Board members read and study the information so they can have informed discussions at the meeting and make the necessary decisions on the cases before them at that time.
After the meeting, the complainant is notified in writing of the Board's decision in the case.
Location AR Veterinary Board
P.O. Box 8505
Little Rock, AR 72215
Ph:501-224-2836
Fax:501-224-1100
Good luck with those precious little ones. What a great hubby you have
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Thank you so very much for this information. I really do appreciate it.
I'm just... I am just exhausted. It has been a nightmare since the first minute I found Katie in her condition. I know many of you are going to be upset with me... but I was sitting there in total disbelief at what Donnie came out of the vets office telling me.... I am so ashamed of myself.... she charged me
$195. 95 ... she already had 100. deposit and I had the other 100. that was supposed to pay on my husbands truck payment. I was shocked and so mad I felt like throwing up. I mechanically handed him the 100 and just sat there doing my best to keep myself from going in and raising trouble that would end up costing me more for bail. I can't beliebe it.
Top it off....she said she GUESSES it was a massive infection.... her words are "I dont know if it's her milk, if it was her puppies, or what it was... but it must have been an infection". :new_shocked:
NO WAY. It wasn't. She had no fever, no nothing. She was healthy, eating, drinking, pooping, peeing, and being just her normal happy self. She wasn't sick. She said her major organs tested to be in really good shape. Her bloodwork came back clean.
I would bet my house that she just IV'd the dog at 10:30 that night and went home to let her get some fluids. Figured if she made it through the night she'd test her on her morning rounds. I doubt she tested her for anything. I can't help it. I don't trust her and I just feel like throwing up all over the place at what's gone on. It's wrong... it's just wrong.
I have ran all over God's creation today trying to find a goat. My windshield of my truck got hit by a rock from a gravel truck this morning and it hit the vet edge of the drivers side and by the time we made it to town it had split 15" across the windshield right in the drivers view. I called insurance...thank goodness they're going to replace it with no deductable. They've hired a company to come to my husbands workplace and right there in the parking lot they're take out the broken one, and replace it with a brand new one. Who knew?
Anyway... I slept about 45 minutes this morning and got the kids up and me and my husband fed the puppies. One doesn't really want to eat. He bought that Hartz puppy milk formula in the powdered form. When we got back to feed the blue merle still didn't want to eat.
My friend an hour away got me a milking goat and we're going to go over there and get the goat, she's going to start my puppies on antibiotics just to be safe, start them on the nanny milk, and give my other 10 pups their shots for me.
Donnie's taking the kids to his moms and we're taking Katie and the puppies over there and she's going to be buried next to her great-grandmother on the hill she was born on. I can't help it... and it's sickening... but I don't trust that vet. My friend worked in a vet's office for years and she knows what to look for. I'm going to have her open the bag they put Katie in and examine her to see what she thinks.
Some of my puppies are eating well... some are not. Thank you all so much for the advice and I really really do appreciate every bit of it and will use it to help raise up these babies. Please continue to send prayers and positive thoughts for the puppies. I just want to do right by them and take care of them the vet best I can and now I'm honestly a little nervous and scared to trust another vet.
Once I get a little rest and can get my head to think clearly I will be calling that number and requesting a complaint form from them and I will most certainly file a complaint. She may not have been able to save Katie, and I'm not angry with her for not being able to save her...sometimes it's just too late to save them.... I am very angry with her for not contacting me...for not leaving a message about Katie's condition when she called my friend's phone...for avoiding my calls all day and all night long.... that was very cruel.
I apologise if I forgot to answer a question, or if I am barely making sence. I've been rung through and through and I am exhausted and emotionally zapped right now.
I will update on the puppies soon.
Again, thank you all so very very much for the encouragement and kind words.... I am getting my babies ready to make the trip over to my friends house. I'm pretty sure she's going to keep some of them for me to help me raise them. She's done if for 15 years and I really trust her to help me and these babies.
: I sure would be asking questions. Which I believe at this time is hard and not going to bring Katie back. I hope those 9 puppies are doing OK with another bitch raising them.
