I sent this email to Me Raven (CEO of ONT VET ASSOC) some months ago regarding Dr Chapin at Harwood Pet Hospital and got no response so i am sending it one more time to give you fair warning that we find your ‘policy’ of doing unnecessary and unasked for testing and vaccinating to be abhorent to the most people.
Your Heart Worm testing policy is especially notable as a scam of the greatest magnitute netting vets with 1000 clients in excess of $30,000 in May of each year alone.
Everyone thinks they are alone in being taken advantage of in your policies and practices but it is my intention in this new year to make everyone aware that they do not have to take this crap from you.
This is the email regarding Dr Chapin and Harwood pet hospital specifically but i have well over 1000 people in readership on my blog and i will do EVERYTHING in my power to make sure people know that your policies may apply to your members but they DO NOT APPLY TO US:
One of our adoptors went in to bring their new dog for an exam, poop test and get the 2 boxes of revolution the dog needed to complete heart worm treatement (main treatment had been started by a licenced, competent vet and all paperwork provided from them with address and tel# too) Simple right? WRONG!
The client met with Dr Chapin who looked over the paper work and said ‘OH MY GOD!! IT’S ILLEGAL TO BRING A DOG ACROSS THE BOARDER WITHOUT A PARVO SHOT! (parvo shot was given and listed and all a dog needs technically is a rabies shot anyway). and ‘OMG HE’S NOT NEUTERED!!” (never felt the empty place btewn his legs? AND it was listed on the paperwork) and ‘OMG HE HAS HEARTWORM” (no shit dear glad you suddenly learned to read) and a few other ‘OMG!!”s as well too numberous and TOO STUPID to mention.
ANYWAY, the ‘Dr’ called me and i told her he’s BEEN TREATED and WHERE in the paperwork she could find it and all they needed was Revolution and she said (i kid you not) ‘OMG!! I HAVE TO TEST FIRST” and i said “OMG!! NO YOU DON’T! HE’S BEEN TESTED ALREADY! HOW DO YOU THINK THEY FOUND OUT HE WAS HW POSITIVE ???”
She said the OVMA requires her to test b4 giving out the Revolution and i said ‘ I seriously doubt the OVMA made you the only one able to test in the world’ and he was tested so give them the stuff cuz the test right now will be positive as it will be for the next 8 mos so you are ripping this woman off.
She said she needed to know the serverity of the HW and i said no you don’t cuz no one is asking for your opinion on treatment options thanks anyway,..
She then said she needed to LOOK UP TREATMENT options and i reminded her that AN EXPERIENCED VET TREATED HIM ALREADY and you can’t find out the SERVERITY IF HE’S ALREADY BEEN TREATED!!
When we’d hung up she gave the dog a HW TEST ANYWAY AND ANOTHER PARVO SHOT FOR NO REASON!!, essentially double dosing a dog recovering from HW and it’s treatment, then tells the client that she will get salmonella if her dog eats raw food and he WILL GET NO VITAMINS OR NUTRITION from it DESPITE THE DOG HAVING GAINED WEIGHT ON IT, LOOKING AMAZING, having great teeth etc… (that’s my next campaign – fear mongering and zero knowledge on a topic but spouting propoganda like gospel)
She did the bloodwork inspite of being told not to by HER PAYING CLIENT and shot the dog with another vaccine DESPITE BEING TOLD NOT TO BY HER PAYING CLIENT and THEN PRESENTS HER WITH A BILL FOR OVER $200!! IS SHE NUTS???
You Just don’t DO THAT HARWOOD PET HOSPITAL OR ANY PLACE FOR THAT MATTER. WE ARE THE CLIENTS! You ASK US WHAT WE WANT DONE AND YOU DO IT! We are NOT CHILDREN OR MORONS WHO’S WALLETS YOU CAN JUST DIP IN TO AT WILL!
After i called her back and reamed her out she called the client the next day and refunded $207. But that’s not the point.
I am really tired of having this experience myself with vets other than my three current ones and of hearing this from all my friends & clients having these experiences.
With the current ‘policy’ of HW testing each May at an avewrage of $30 per dog per test if the clinic has 1000 clients THAT’S $30,000 DOLLARS TO THE CLINIC FOR NOTHING!! And b4 you tell me that you catch HW+ dogs i say PROVE THERE ARE ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY BLANKET TESTING WHEN ONTARIANS USE HW PREVENTION and why not wait til SIGNS of illness are there? I HAVE SEEN THE SIGNS AND SO HAVE YOUR MEMBERS many times more than i have so this is absolute nonesense that there could be justification for your POLICY.
How many of of us have done the test year after year to be told (thankfully) that your dog tested negative?? There is LITTLE HW in Ontario BECAUSE WE USE PREVENTION and if you use prevention regularly on the 1st of eah month for 6 months your dog won’t get HW and IF HE DOES GET HW THEN REVOLUTION WITH PAY FOR TREATMENT and IF HE DOES GET HW THE SIGNS ARE THERE!! You’ll go to your vet cuz he’s acting sick AND GET A BLOOD TEST!
So where do the vets and OMVA get the idea that they can make policies involving our dogs and our money??
If you’re fed up please stop being quiet about it – YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN BEING TREATED THIS WAY – THEY DO IT TO EVERYONE!
Write to
Doug Raven
Chief Executive Officer
draven@ovma.org
or any other executives http://www.ovma.org/about_ovma/staff.html or write to them all – I DID.
