I Am Hysterical Right Now!

The Animal Emergency Clinic in Tacoma LOST our baby girl's ashes!!!! They dumped them somewhere and we can't even bring our little girl home!!!

I am so upset right now, I will finish this post later. I cannot believe this!!

Edit (and I'll probably add more again later):

I never asked how much anything cost from the moment we walked through the doors of The Animal Emergency Clinic. All we wanted was our little girl feeling better.

I knew something was wrong when we were told 2 to 3 days before we would have her ashes back and every time we would call, they kept telling us to call back. Now we call today and they tell us they LOST her? WTH?

The Animal Emergency Clinic covered and covered for a mistake made in their clinic, making excuses time after time, and lying to us for a week until they couldn't cover any more. This makes me so SICK!

And the manager goes into a spiel about how many pets they help. Yes, fine, I understand that they are known as a good clinic, but you know what, I do rescues, and I help pets too - how can you loose the most important pet we've ever owned? Your clinic would not be in business if not for people like me paying your paycheck! This is NOT ACCEPTABLE!

We paid for private cremation, apparently, somehow along the way, they mixed her up with general cremation pets, and her ashes were supposedly dropped near Mt. Rainier. We have no proof whatsoever that this was done, either! The clinic lied to us multiples times, who is to say where her ashes really are?

I haven't blogged this part either, because it's been really hard for me... but when we went to put her to sleep, we were assured she had been sedated. I've put several pets to sleep before, so I understood. However, Pudgy was not sedated properly, and when they went to add the medication through her IV, she started freaking out trying to rip the IV out.

I am scarred from this. I've never heard of this happening before, but the veterinarian tried to say it happens sometimes. NO, IT DOESN'T! There is something very, very wrong at The Animal Emergency Clinic!

Every time I close my eyes I see this happening over and over again. My heart broke, because I felt like a murderer. It was so hard for me to agree to the euthanasia as it was, because she looked so much better when we came to the clinic that morning, and it's hard for me to agree to this when I don't even believe in abortion. (It may seem screwed up to some folks, but a life is a life to me) I had a different vet every time we walked through the doors at The Animal Emergency Clinic, and every time I felt like they were telling me something different.

Not once on any of my pets have I ever blinked an eye at how much something cost. If I was short on money, they ate fine, I went without. That's the way it always has been. If a critter walks through our doors, they are spoiled rotten.

So now, we can't even take her with us back home to Texas. She's here in a state, we will never come back to, thrown onto the ground like trash. They treated her like TRASH!! How is this right?

I'll be contacting Washington's Veterinary Board about this.

I hope and I pray, that this never happens to anyone else. May we hurt so no one else has to.