Vet ‘sedated & took home cat she had been told to put down’ as owner left grieving while thinking pet was dead

A SHAMELESS vet stole a feline she was expected to enactment down and near the owners reasoning their favored was dead.

Dr Janine Parody said she could "not look different euthanasia" aft already carrying retired the process connected 3 different animals that day.

The veterinarian claimed she believed the "happy" feline, called Shadow, could beryllium restored backmost to health and decided to instrumentality it location with her.

Before stealing the cat, Dr Parody sedated, neutered, and removed its microchip earlier installing a caller one.

She told a disciplinary proceeding the owners would "be nary the wiser" and did not privation to support the favored anyway.

Dr Parody has since been recovered blameworthy of disgraceful conduct.

The heartbroken proprietor said she "grieved for his small soul" aft having conscionable precocious welcomed him into her family. 

The elation upon discovering her favored was inactive live was abbreviated lived aft the pistillate was asked to fork retired astir £500 for the procedures carried retired by Dr Parody.

The archetypal owner, named lone arsenic SM, paid £480 successful attraction fees to caregiver the feline backmost to health.

A tribunal heard the pistillate who regularly rescued cats took ownership of the feline but soon decided it would beryllium champion to person him enactment down.

The feline was "very sick" with MRSA, was thin, and had facial injuries erstwhile SM took it successful backmost successful December 2021.

An assignment was past made for Dr Parody astatine the Castle Veterinary Group successful Framlingham, Suffolk to enactment Shadow down.

Dr Parody, a azygous parent with 2 dogs and 2 cats astatine home, added Shadow to the household implicit Christmas of that aforesaid year.

After returning to enactment aft the festive period, a receptionist questioned Shadow's records arsenic determination was nary grounds of it being officially enactment down.

Dr Parody admitted the feline was live and had been keeping it astatine her home.

The vets past told SM that her feline was inactive live and had been returned to the signifier to beryllium picked up.

The shocked pistillate headed backmost to get her feline connected December 31.

Dr Parody resigned and an investigation was launched.

The tribunal heard that by precocious February the feline underwent further surgeries but remained earnestly sick.

SM made the pugnacious determination to erstwhile again enactment Shadow down days later.

She told the tribunal she had suffered unnecessarily on with the feline owed to Dr Parody's actions to support the feline alive.

The cat's proprietor did accidental that she felt the vet was moving nether "extraordinarily stressful circumstances" owed to the Covid-19 pandemic.

When Dr Parody spoke to the sheet she revealed she was "ready to euthanise" Shadow up until the infinitesimal she walked into the consulting room.

She said the "sweet young feline appeared steadfast isolated from his tegument condition" starring her to marque the prime to instrumentality it home.

The vet added: "I had already done back-to-back euthanasias that greeting arsenic mentioned and upon seeing a blessed young cat, I conscionable could not look different euthanasia.

"I deliberation it is important to accidental present that adjacent though astatine that constituent I had been a vet for implicit 10 years, euthanasias are ne'er casual and you ever 'take them home' with you."

The sheet said the ordeal was partially caused by a connection mix-up arsenic Dr Parody originality believed the feline had nary owner.

Dr Parody admitted she knew what she did was incorrect and has nary excuse for her actions.

But claimed she acted "with the payment of the feline astatine the centre of my decisions".

The sheet agreed with Dr Parody's sentiment but said she had "made a bid of precise mediocre decisions" and went against the accustomed procedure.

Dr Parody was fixed a reprimand and present works successful Herefordshire.