A petition was started a month or so ago to shut down Animal Care Vet Clinic at 118 Flushcombe rd, Blacktown NSW. The petition was removed without the initiator being told, it was reaching 13k signatures. The pages on Facebook relating to the Protest and the Event were also removed without notice.
I started neither of these, however, I am part of a committee established to see things through in the matter. None of us knew each other. I came across the original petition from my related articles through FB.

A protest was held with much local support from people dropping by or shouting out their stories as they drove past.

I am neither a client nor disgruntled ex-employee. I saw some things that happened at the clinic when I was employed as a casual whilst finishing off my Vet Nursing certificate at TAFE. However, after seeing what this practise was doing I made a career change and now my focus is animal welfare.

I didn’t see the stories that clients or employee experienced. And I am so shocked to hear it as I reported this clinic to the Vet Board in 2012 but the investigations came up with nothing.

Boarding animals were kept in cages much too small; the cats had room for a litter tray, food bowl and a standing cat, they were sleeping in their litter trays.
I was called in to start at 1pm, I was the first VN on that day. The hospital animals were in the same cages as the day before; slitting in their own filth, no food or water. 2 bulldog pups were mucking around with each other and rolling in faeces. The bulldogs downstairs were another story: 2 large garbage bags of POOP!!!! About 8 French and English bulldogs. No bedding, no water or food as their bowl were all upturned. Faeces covered every surface of the floor.
A dog with Parvovirus was neglected by the vet, it passed away over the weekend after I tended to it. The Vet, Shama Sivaji, asked me how the dog was when I saw it, it was ok (see the next paragraph). She told me it passed away, it was her first parvo patient to pass and because she didn’t treat the animal herself leaving up to the VNs or volunteer animal study students.
The parvo patient was in a cage the size roughly 30x40x30, much too small. The dog stood up but was permanently hunched as the ceiling of the cage was at least 20cms too low. The patient was in the quarantine room which doubled as the clinic laundry, and access to under the house containing the boarding animals. I didn’t do near my bf’s puppy as I was afraid he would get sick.

Surgical instrument packs were left on the surgery trolley all day and instruments were picked by Shama from the open packs throughout the day. This is completely inapppropriate as surgical packs are single opening only; once opened thet are considered a contamination risk. Therefore, many animals were being exposed to infection from the lack of sterlisied surgical equipment.

I encourage those who have had issue with this vet to add your comments below and share on Facebook and get the notice out there again.

I recently resubmitted my recollections as a statutory declaration to the Vet Board again and I stand by what I saw. The stories are shocking and painful. Media are involved and we are determined to GET THIS CLINIC SHUT DOWN.