Okay: Short story. Seven week old kitten, underweight with fleas/mites. Vet prescribed her with three different meds, two of those were for fleas. She gave half doses but, kitten was too young and weighed too little for some of the meds. She died a few hours after the vet appointment when we were driving to a 24 hour emergency vet clinic (after hours for local vets).
We are not certain if we can honestly do anything but, we'd at least like to maybe share our story with a local animal rights group. We're trying to locate one but, haven't found much info yet (this just happened on Friday). If anyone has advice to help us it would be much appreciated. Our kitten has died and we know it was unintentional on the vet's part but, we'd like to prevent this from happening to another kitten and it's human "parents". We only had her for one week but, we loved her and started bonding from the moment we met her at the animal shelter. Longer story with more details below.
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We adopted our kitten from a shelter when she was just six weeks old. Just a few days later she started showing symptoms of an upper respiratory infection, a fairly common diagnosis. We took her to the vet because we wanted our baby to be happy and healthy. Admittedly, she was underweight and had fleas/ear mites but, we were feeding her and she was too young/small for most treatments. Before the appointment, she had been fairly responsive and happy even with her yucky nose. The vet wanted to put her on an antibiotic for the URI and two different flea treatments. We specifically asked if the meds would be all right for our kitten since she was only seven weeks old and underweight. She blatantly lied and said that Advantage Multi was okay for our kitten, even specifically saying it was approved from week seven. They gave her half doses of all of the meds since she was underweight. After the vet, she was barely responsive but, we thought it was just because she was tired. She started having seizures about an hour after we left the vet. Banfield was already closed and the only place we found that had 24 hour emergency services was in Beech Grove (one hour, fifteen minute drive). An hour into the drive our kitten died in my boyfriend's arms. They did fax us paperwork after her death admitting that our kitten was younger and smaller than the drug manufacturer's recommendations for usage. They apologized and refunded our money for "good will" purposes but, that will not bring our baby girl back.
