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Pet owner devastated after vet 'euthanizes her cat by ACCIDENT'

Sophie had only gone in for a routine check-up and a rabies shot - by Jess Bell
  • 21 Jan 2020
Pet owner devastated after vet 'euthanizes her cat by ACCIDENT'

A pet owner was left devastated after claims her cat was accidentally euthanized at the vet.

Texas woman Michelle Olson says she took her eight-year-old cat Sophie to the vet to have her rabies shot.

But as she drove Sophie home with her husband, they got a worrying call from the vets.

Ms Olson told ABC 13: 'It was the doctor herself calling saying: ‘Please get Sophie back here immediately, we gave her euthanasia instead of a rabies vaccine.

‘I immediately took her out of her cat carrier and I held her, talked to her, because I knew that was going to be the last thing she would remember.

‘She was pretty much dying in my arms.'

Back at the vet’s surgery, they gave Sophie oxygen and fluids to flush out the drug but she couldn’t be saved.

She died two days later.

Ms Olson has spoken out in a bid to warn other pet owners to ask more questions of their vet and be vigilant.

Sophie had only meant to have a routine check-up and the rabies vaccine when the alleged mix-up happened.

The veterinary surgery declined to comment.

Jess Bell

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