Now that we have received his ashes back I am going public with our story of our horrible experience and Crawford Road Animal Hospital. Our experience was not with Dr. Forston but with the other vet in the practice Dr. Jeni On Sept 4th 2012 we took my mother's 16 year old retired service dog in to be euthanized. He had a large cancerous tumor on the side of his mouth but his entire body was riddled with cancer and he could not walk on his own anymore. They made us carry him in his crate into the room ourselves, which is not that bad but most places the techs will come carry the dog in on a stretcher. Once we got into the room the tech came in and wanted us to pick him up to weigh him to gauge the dosage of the injection, we told her that picking him up was very painful for him and that he weighed 65lbs at his last vet visit and due to the cancer he was considerably less than that now could they please just dose him at 65lbs and leave him in peace. The answer was no, she then said you can just lift him on that scale right there to which I said ""He will FIGHT it because my mother is disabled and he would never let her pick him up"" so we lifted him crate and all onto the scale and he weighed 55lbs with the crate. Then the tech said I will take him back and put a catheter in, again he could not walk on his own, lifting him hurt him and he would have been very upset at being seperated from my mother so we asked if they could just do it in the room, again the answer was no, so they decided to just inject it straight into his leg. The tech then left to prepare the injection.
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