Before starting the real story about Yuuki, I would like to talk about myself at first. I was living my childhood with pet so I love pet and most animal.After graduate from my college and living my family from my hometown to Kuala Lumpur here starting my journey of working life, I felt really stress and pressure. With lot's of pressure from work I use to think back my happy moment with my pet( Tisa) which was leave me. Consequently, I hv make myself a decision to select a pet as my companion. After research from few pet shop and agent I finally met Yuuki, a Cute little schnauzer with his big and innocent eye to attract me to bring him home. I given him the name of Yuuki is a Japanese word of "Luck". I found Yuuki as my luck and a gift from god. Yuuki is my first pet in KL here, I hope I can give him full love and passion to make him feel he is one of our family member. To train Yuuki, I was searching internet, libary and everywhere regarding the pet training. I though I was given perfect enough for Yuuki. Yuuki is a smart and interligent dog so he learn quickly. Yuuki able to learn quickly is simply because he love me and others of my house members too, I treat him as human and given a lot of patient and care for him.He love us and like to stick with me, whenever I go he will follow me, sometime I felt stress and pressure from my work, Yuuki understand it. He make me out of my pressure and having joy and fun with him. He is my psycology doctor also medicine.
During my training time with yuuki, he made mistake sometime I feel sad at certain time but Yuuki knew it, he trying to use his eye to understand me, my facial expression so he quickly change to the right action so that I can give him a praise or a hug. After 3 days training, Yuuki understand most my langguage and word, the same as me understand of his sign langguage. Yuuki give me life, joy and happiness, I find myself love him so much and much. I hope I can continue train him until he grew up and bring him to see a lot of wonderful thing that he never expect before. I like to give Yuuki suprise everytime, Yuuki feel very happy and alway barking with exciting tone, jumping to show his excitement to me. I have make a long plan for Yuuki future as well.
My plan seem succesful and achieving at begining until the first day Yuuki sick. Yuuki suddendly sick....
on 13/01/2009, I went home as usual, the weird thing happend, today Yuuki didn't bark happily when I back, I felt worry I quickly run my self to his room and calling his name. It was no reflection back from him, until I enter yuuki's room , Yuuki sit quietly and walk toward me with his pitty eye, I don't know what's going on, I thought he is too hungry so rush myself to make him dinner. He love food very much so he always finish my food but today he didn't want to eat and keep vomit and diarher. I siddendly felt panic on seeing this situation coz he hv nv sick before and I hv never prepare myself to send him to a right vet, I felt lost coz I dont know where have the vet for Yuuki. I keep calling my friends for help and the time is already 9pm. Finally, I got a message from my friend that which has a Vet that provide emergency for puppies and kittens(Segar Veterinary Hospital Cheras). I rush myself to send Yuuki there. Until I reach there, the vet crew has make a call to the so call Dr. Finally the Dr reach, which is a younge teenager at my age, he hold Yuuki up and do some examinination on Yuuki's vomit and diarhe. After the result from him, he told me Yuuki was suffering "PARVOVIRUS" which is no 1 puppy killer and the chance is 50% to survive so I have to send Yuuki for Hospital Treatment at their vet. Yuuki diagnose at that time: loss of appetite, diarhhe(waterly), vomiting. Yet he is still not able to run and bark.
14/01/2009: Second day of sick
I visit Yuuki at morning time, he look slighly weak and was loss appetite as well. My second visit again on night time after my work, this time he looks more energetic and joyful barking while saw me, I bring some food for him and he manage to finish it. I felt really happy and check with his Dr again, Dr said he did not vomit and diarhhe at noon time and even has a good appetite so I might able to send him home tommorrow depending on his situation next day.
15/01/2009: Third day of sick
I called Segar Vet during 11:00am, One of his crew told me that Yuuki was able to discharge and go home coz he did not vomit and diarhhe also with good appetite. When the time at 3pm, the Dr call me again annd told me that Yuuki suddendly vomit and he has vomit out my food on yesterday night and today breakfast also have diarhhe. Consequently, the Dr ask me not to bring him back at this momment. After my work, I rush myself to vet again to check on Yuuki again, Yuuki look very weak and with sad face on me, he even unable to bark.
16/01/2009:Forth day of sick
I call Dr again in afternoon 3pm to check on Yuuki health condition, Dr said Yuuki has went to the serious illnest, he has heavyly vomit every food he ate and keep diarhhe if he still continued in this situation he will then die. I was really scare and nervous and I felt something wrong with the Dr here, coz they did not really answer most my question. With my knowledge about Parvovirus, if the puppy has diarhhe with blood that mean it is under dangerous stagge of Parvovirus already so I ask the Dr if Yuuki diarhhe with blood or not. The Dr said not yet so I felt some kind of release coz I'm still able to change a vet for him. After my work, I quickly went the Vet there. I hold Yuuki firmly with care suddendly he has diarhhe on my hand body and leg which is full of blood, I 'm so suprise and wonder why that the Dr is lie on me. The Dr just quiet and said that Yuuki body has attach fully by virus coz his immulse system is bad. I cried myself out after seing this situation, Yuuki heard it and turn his face up to looked at me and want to lick on me. I'm so sad, I though I found he sickness in early stage that which still can heal...This time is very late at night, I send Yuuki home with medicine. I was thinking to change a new vet for him at next day. On my way back to house, Yuuki keep starring on me and lying down very close to my stomach. He keep licking my hand like feeling happy even he was sick. When I reach home, I boil a tuna soup for Yuuki coz Dr said he did not take any food at all so I feed him slowly and he manage to swallow all. After a while I fee him with his antibiotic frm Dr. Yuuki look very weak, he keep on diarhhe with all blood out. Yuuki seems very tired but he did not want to sleep keep looking at me, I did not noe why so keep encouraging him and praised him. Until very late night, I started felt sleepy and fall on sleep yet Yuuki still starring on me.
The Next day 17/01/2009, which is my sadness day. I wake up at 7am and found Yuuki body was rigid and cold, his eyes and mouth were open, frozen as if in surrender to some great force that had passed through him. Yuuki was gone, a wrong treatment had use on his body. Segar Vet has killing his life by keep on trying of different medicine.
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My last advise to all Veterinary Dr, if you do not know on rescue any virus or sickness please advise your customers to look for professional Dr for help not pretending tp know and use customer's pet as your white mice, please put your heart to their shoes and understand how the owner's feeling, they have been spending most time with their beloved and you have just take away their life by your selfish, without the little puppies decision to grow up you kill them. And to all animal lovers if you really love your pet please search for the right veterinary to go before you regret.
Now back to this problem with Segar Vet. There have been many comments posted on this issue of vets. Why were they not heeded? Many owners are at fault too. When they take their animal to the vet, they are prescribed antibiotics and the animal gets well. What does the owner say? 'Oh, the vet very good. Eat medicine get well very fast'. Of course, the animal will get well fast. Antibiotics don't cure, they suppress. That's why the effect is immediate, but for a very short time only. Once the effect of the antibiotics wears off, the problems will recur. This is very commonly seen in animals with skin problems.
Segar Vet is noted for employing freshies who are still very wet behind the ears. I have plenty of bad experiences with them and also with other vets. To be fair to them, they are not the only ones. Plenty of these around. Most vets play guessing game. In the near future, I'm going to share with all pet owners my experiences with vets - good and bad. I know Segar places $$$ first and it's from my firsthand experience with them, certainly it's not from hearsay. I hope owners will learn to be smarter and not go by 'my vet says', 'recommended by vets', etc. For myself, if it's recommended by vets, I'll certainly not believe unless it's a vet who knows me well and I know the vet well. So, owners, do wake up and look at alternative medicine. The cure, most of the time, is right in front of us, but we choose to look beyond our nose and believe these so-called 'professionals'. Most vets talk through their nose which results in problems like the current ones. The only thing they can talk with confidence and with authority is 'Vitamin M'.
I have a suggestion. Why not owners pool their experiences and put them in a thread so that we can learn from each other?
Having said all that, I must say that there are still some good vets around. Dr Irinda Toh, Dr Hasnul, Dr Chan Wei Yee, Dr Loh Pitt Khim....feel free to add to the list but please make sure that you can verify that they are truly good.
To the owner of the Schnauzer, get a written report from Segar Vet. Drill them, show them that you mean business. The problem is most owners just let it go although it's the vet's fault. Get some justification for your beloved dog. For the sake of other animals, don't let the vet off the hook. Many of us are behind you.