Dog 'poisoned' at Scots vets after injection mix-up as furious owner hits out
dailyrecord.co.ukA Border Collie was allegedly accidentally poisoned after anaesthetic was injected into her bloodstream at a vets in Airdrie after a syringe mix-up.Furious owner Ashley Kennedy, 37, claims her dog Poppy could have died at Vets4Pets on Clark Street on October 27.
The mum-of-two, from Chapelhall, told how she had dropped the two-year-old dog off to be neutered when she received a phone call from a member of staff who reportedly said there had been a 'small error' and her operation could no longer go ahead.Ashley claims when she arrived at the vets, she was told there had been a 'human error' but after insisting to see paperwork she said it was revealed a general anaesthetic which should have been injected into Poppy's stomach had been administered intravenously and poisoned the dog.
Ashley, who works in financial crime, told the Record: "A vet came out to speak to me, but she still wouldn't tell me what had happened.
They just kept describing it as a 'human error'."I asked to see the paperwork and was then told a local anaesthetic that was supposed to go into Poppy's tummy went into her IV instead.
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