29/07/2022
To those that have seen the post from WTEVC's public page, it's no wonder that sweet Hazoe was deemed a bite risk by Dr. Wills at WTEVC. She mentioned on many occasions her hatred for "pit bulls", and her patients are not free from that prejudice. Hazoe was brought into WTEVC for Parvovirus, where she was abandoned. Luckily, Hazoe survived parvo. However, Dr. Wills never allowed Hazoe to be moved to a more appropriate environment, and she stayed in her small concrete cage, never going outside or nteracting any other animals and very few humans. The few people she did have contact with were a hand full of Veterinary Technicians and Assistants. Very rarely does Dr. Wills personally go into the parvo ward to check on her patients, much less a dog she "hates". Hazoe had absolutely no socialization, but really had never had any sort of interacgion with Wills. Had Dr. Wills allowed Hazoe to be socialized or made any attempts to save this dog or get her out of the clinic, she never would have shown aggressive behavior. The truth is that she never wanted to help this dog, and she jumped at the first chance to execute her with the opinion of a so-called self proclaimed dog trainer to back her up. It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident, but it is NOT. Unlike many of the other doctors who work at West Texas Emergency Vet who actually go check on their patients to see how they are doing for themselves Anne Wills hardly ever goes into the parvo ward to check on patients, no matter how critical they are. More often than not she has no idea how the patient is even doing, if a client were to ask her for an update on their parvo pet she wouldn't even be able to tell them anything and would instead refer them to the parvo technician even though she is the supposed "doctor" who should know every patient within the medical facility and how they are doing. If the parvo technician was busy or currently back in parvo she either lies saying that the patient is doing decent or tells them to call back at a later time. Since Wills seldom ever goes into the back other than to go to her restroom or let her many many personal dogs out most of the kennel dogs have no idea who she is, even though she is the clinic owner and should know every animal under the clinic's care. Due to not knowing who Wills is these dogs treat her as they would any other stranger and often feel the need to protect what they know to be their home. Since they know nothing else other than their small fold down wire cage (with just enough room for them to sit and turn around), where they spend all day, with the exception of 5-10 minutes twice a day to be let outside while the kennel tech cleans the cage and replenishes their bowls since this cage is their home where they eat,drink, go to the bathroom, sleep and spend the rest of the day until they are let out again the next day. These dogs often out of fear (NUMBER 1 reason friendly and sweets dogs act out and occasionally seem aggressive all in an effort to protect themselves and their territory) feel the need to protect themselves and ward off whatever they feel to be a threat such as a stranger since they are not socialized with anyone other than the kennel techs and other WTEVC staff who walk by them with no interaction just to get food for another animal. Their brief interactions with both kennel techs and other WTEVC staff is often a loud one due to them being yelled at for being loud and barking out of excitement and frustration from having so much pent up energy and restlessness. There are several dogs living at West Texas Emergency Vet Clinic and unfortunately most of whom have lived there for years. Starla and Roco have been outside in kennels for over 3yrs and Coco for coming up on over 1yr. Snow, Scout, Ziah and Mike all arrived as young tiny puppies and have lived there for over 1yr. Many cats have come in as kittens weeks old and are now all grown up. Most if not all of these animals have lived there with no exposure whatsoever to the outside world. These animals (consisting far more than listed earlier) were all either abandoned or surrendered and even though most have been there for months going on months turning into years NOBODY knows they are there, making it impossible for these animals for find good, caring, and loving homes. These animals not only get no exposure to the public in a physical sense for socialization purposes but no exposure for people to learn about their very existence to adopt them. Many clients have made inquires about the dogs they see in the yard while they are waiting in the lobby to be seen and no one ever gets back to them to go over the adoption process, since the ONLY two people who have anything to do with adoptions are gone by 3:00pm, long before most clients start shuffling in for treatment.
