Today, I was in the process of checking on the background of several rescue and rehoming organisations for “The Harry Homing Mission: A Home for Every Pet”
initiative launched to save lives in response to Massey University's Companion Animal "Hospital"'s Dr Steffi Jalava and associates having intentionally, heinously, unspeakably cruelly, and deceptively, taken the life of my own pet
. . . my beloved little papillon, Harry.
The rescuers in many of these organisations can only be described as angelic beings disguised as human beings, but with an inner core of steel.
I’ve worked in a voluntary marketing support capacity for the pet rescue world on and off since 2003, when I launched Operation Toby . . . a much larger and much more comprehensive (but exclusively Australian and New Zealand) version of what I intend the
International Institute for Improvement in Veterinary Ethics’ (IIIVE.org’s) Harry Homing Mission to become – albeit the Harry Homing project will be a global index. (After several years and a massive database, Operation Toby, in the “Web 1.0” environment, finally succumbed to the overwhelming then-expense of having to pay commercial website development fees every time a listing needed to be added.)
A video on one of the rescue group’s (Los Angeles's
Hope for Paws
https://www.hopeforpaws.org/) website, depicted in heartrendingly graphic detail, one of the worst cruelty (yet thankfully, successful rescue) cases I’ve seen for a while, and one of the most heroic rescue missions. Yes, there are many worse, but this puppy had not only been brutalised in general, but had also had one of its back feet hacked off, before being thrown 30 feet down a culvert into a body of water.
Remarkably,
little Jordan (yes, you read that right) survived that. And even more remarkably, witnesses or passersby called the Hope for Paws rescuers in time for them to get straight there and conduct an equally remarkable rescue mission . . . which was followed by an equally swift and remarkable life-saving veterinary mission . . . surgery, blood transfusion, intensive care, and recovery.
Rescuers' Determination to Save the Almost Unsaveable vs Massey's Determination to Destroy the Perfectly Viable
And I marvelled . . . and not in a good way, at how the smarts, strategy and commitment of those rescuers and that veterinary crew, were equalled in a wickedly counter-opposing way, by the
cunning, guile and determination of Dr Steffi Maja Jalava and
the “team”
(whose
identities I have had to research for myself, given Massey's systematic redaction of names from all thus-far-extracted records) that she "led" as they
catastrophically and repeatedly overdosed with a contraindicated, unnecessary cocktail of potent sedatives, then
sadistically conducted invasive student participation procedures on (against my numerous-times forbiddance), and psychopathically filmed in the resultant state of pharmacological collapse,
my precious little blind Harry – torturing him for the entire 15 hours of his fated “stay”.
At the end of which, Jalava got me in a room by myself and – with absolutely no disclosure of Harry’s sedated state whatsoever –
hammered me mercilessly with a wickedly constructed false diagnosis and all manner of “prognoses” until she found the one that would
finally get me to sign a “euthanasia” “consent” form . . .
heinously misrepresenting his desperately over-sedated state as some vague “neurological” decline or event.
And I further marvelled, at how – by extreme contrast – those rescuers were running on the smell of an oily rag of goodhearted donations and quite likely their own personal funds . . . while
Massey’s Companion Animal ‘Hospital’ practice manager, Pauline Nijman, presides over a billing culture that takes every opportunity to inflate a client's invoice —including
after they’ve already killed the client’s pet.
Imagine what the
$1236.84 I paid for the 15 hours of “care” (with no food, water or toileting, and being billed for a 24-hour rehydration protocol they disconnected him from after 8.5 hours for their
invasive student activities upon him and cell phones filming of it) that resulted in Harry’s torture and equally torturous and totally-without-cause, fully intentional killing, could have done under the prudent and ethical stewardship of a rescue organisation like the one these brave, responsive and heart-of-gold rescuers give their time and devotion to.
It’s the cruelest of ironies, isn’t it?
Those who are paid handsomely (and make sure they
extract even more than they are legally entitled to take), are those who operate with
reckless abandon, cruelty and no accountability and get to do so strictly
behind closed (ICU) doors
. . . while those who operate almost pennilessly, with compassion and courage in its most unadulterated form, operate with a degree of transparency that is on open display for the whole world to see.
