Pocket spent 7 days                                        

Edgefield Veterinary Hospital, LLC

269 Stage Rd.  Hampstead, New Hampshire

at Dover Veterinary Hospital on IV fluids unable to consume food. Edgefield Veterinary Hospital never called even once in the entire week to inquire about her well-being.

Dover  Veterinary Hospital      OR       Seacoast Veterinary Assoc., PA 

Durham Road, Dover, New Hampshire

where the brutal S-C-A-M  continued & escalated

Upon review of Pocket's medical records, I filed a 4 page complaint to the NH Board of Veterinary Medicine on November 7, 2006 and an additional 2 page letter with more details & witness names on December 27th.  Brad Taylor, DVM , (board member NHVMA) of Riverside Clinic, Boscawen and Capital Area Veterinary Emergency Services, Concord--past Vice President of the NH Board (current president) contacted me to investigate via a single phone call on January 5th. I then submitted a single page final summary response on January 7th. 

The Board voted to "not find for Unprofessional Conduct" and "dismiss , without predjudice..." on January 23, 2007.

• Expert cooperation & coordination of 2 clinics, four DVM's and support staff , $3000 and over a week of prescribed treatment and I still have questions regarding Pocket's case. 

• Did we receive special treatment because Pocket's long-time partner of Edgefield , Susan Tasillo, DVM relocated to another state shortly after an imposed $40,000 legal judgement against the clinic  (and not over a pet-malpractice case, hence the filed Limited Liability Corp.)  ?

• Why were we referred over an HOUR away, when a new state-of-the-art  veterinary facility is within 15  minutes of my home, with cat-scan and ultrasound capabilities?

• Was it because both clinics participate in the "Great Bay Community College veterinary technician teaching program" and benefit from free labor? Do these clinics receive state-sponsored financial incentives via program funding? Do they need to circumvent the USDA Animal Welfare Act to obtain "live teaching tools", necropsies, and bodies for anatomy class disection? Does the University of NH, Durham vet tech program participate in this also?

• What cancer did she have? What disease process really ended her life?

• Why were my requests for euthanasia repeatedly  discouraged?

• Why was I (and Bill)  deceived , pressured, and her pain & suffering untreated and unnecessarily prolonged ?

• Why was her life ended in such an illegal and CRUEL manner?

• What did the vet tech students from NH Technical Community College , Stratham Campus  ,now named GREAT BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ,Peggy A.  MacGregor, VMD, now known as  Margaret A. MacGregor-Nicol, program director learn from Pocket?  
• Why would a NH STATE SPONSORED institution, formally NH Technical Community College ,now named Great Bay Community College allow impressionable students to learn deception, cruelty, suffering, or engage in obvious impropriety?

• Why has the state of New Hampshire allowed unlicensed DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) vets/clinic to have contact with companion patients/clients and allow illegal, inhumane euthanasia?

• Why would  the state allow the investigation(s) to be conducted by a fellow former and future colleague(s) and co-workers?
• Why does the NH Board of Veterinary Medicine have three (3) members with pending or closed complaints against their clinics? Is it a pre-requisite for recruitment by our Governor for appointment?

***Take measures , ask questions, long before your pet is ill or dying to prevent veterinary  abuse and substandard care ***

Fall 2008:

Dover Veterinary Hospital forms liason with In-Town Group "Port City Veterinary Referral Hospital", 215 Commerce Way, Suite 100, Portsmouth, NH ----headed and staffed by Dover Veterinary Hospital's current owners

Peggy MacGregor Nicol's Great Bay Community College veterinary technician program is expected to relocate to Pease Airforce Base by 2010

Open for biz early: Fall 2009

NH Board Members January '07:

Derek Fritz, DVM (President) of Tenney, Fritz, and Coombs Animal Hospital, Peterborough, NH

Brad Taylor, DVM (Vice Pres. & Investigator) *see above

Robin Hertel, DVM of Crossroads Animal Hospital, Londonderry, NH

Eileen Petersen, DVM of Daniel Webster Animal Hospital, Bedford, NH

Jennifer Sula, DVM of Salisbury, NH: breeder/owner/exhibitor and member of Irish Wolfhound Association of New England and Blackwater Veterinary Services of Salisbury, NH

Susan C. Flint, Henniker, NH ----public member

On October 16, 2007 4:30 pm, at Dover Police Department, Dover, NH (603-742-4646)----Kathy M. Ladisheff Animal Control & certified Cruelty Investigator took my sworn statement of violation NH RSA 437:22 sect. II  "animal care facility must put an animal to death humanely" case number 70119854

phone call on  10/30/07  to Ms. Ladisheff : said CFS#  is 7019854 and report has been submitted to Sgt. William Malsbury, Dover Police Dept. for followup

**update: 12/12/07 -written report declares case closed without investigation because State declares "unfounded".  

(see NH animal law page)

*New*  July 2008

NH Vet Board Watch ---see side link bar-- a (very) few tidbits gathered from right-to-know PUBLIC information, to be updated periodically

web link & informative pages ---Suki's Story and how Vet Boards work---click below link

Pocket's Story from NH --link 2