Animal Centre Remove Cats Ear During a Routine Spay Operation

A Georgetown resident was left distressed after she picked up her pet cat, Sugar, from the St. Frances Animal Center Tuesday morning.  The cat had been taken in for a routine operation to be spayed and had been left with only half an ear. 

The staff at the centre insist the cats ear had a medical condition before she was taken to them, something which her owners deny. When a cat is spayed it is common practice for vets and centres to place a notch in the ear of a cat to show they have been spayed but, in this case it appeared the cats ear had been severly damaged. 

Sugars owners were told to pick her up at 2:30 in the afternoon but when they arrived they said she was not out of theatre and it was another 2 hours until the staff decided that the cat was too drowsy to be taken home that night. Staff say this was beacuse the procedure took place much later than intended. They were also told that they were being given $45 off of the price of the operation with no explanation. 

Thje next morning the owners picked up Sugar to find half of her left ear missing. They demanded an explanation and were told that the cat had already had a blood clot in the ear. it appears that no compenation nor appolgy has been made by the animal centre as yet.