Staci Foulks leads her dog, Greta, through an agility course. Photo courtesy Staci FoulksStaci Foulks and her dog, Greta, were inseparable. “She was the kind of dog that would follow me into the bathroom. I couldn’t go to the bathroom alone, because Greta would be there staring at me,” she said. On her lunch breaks, Foulks would often come home to Greta and take the Swedish Vallhund out to the forest near her home in Flagstaff so the two could use up some of their pent up energy. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“In a way, she kind of became my unofficial emotional support animal,” Foulks said. When Foulks was pregnant in 2021, Greta moved into the role of protector, laying her head on Foulks’ belly. The following year, when Greta started acting strange, wanting to go outside to the bathroom over and over and over, all day long, Foulks knew to take her to their family veterinarian.That’s when things quickly started to go downhill. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOXThe vet wanted to get a urine sample, suspecting a urinary tract infection, and used an invasive procedure to do so. The vet stuck a needle through Greta’s abdomen in a procedure called cystocentesis to obtain the urine, something Foulks was unaware of. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIn records obtained by Foulks, vet technicians voiced concern over the procedure, but the vet went ahead with it anyway. Shortly after, Greta collapsed. Vet techs sprang into action and performed CPR on Greta as Foulks watched, but they were unable to revive her. An autopsy found a “large volume” of blood in Greta’s abdomen, a “large volume” of clotted blood behind the bladder and kidneys and a “laceration” that was consistent with complications from the cystocentesis. Foulks was devastated. Her companion for the past five years was now gone, and she was there to witness it all. She didn’t know if she could trust a vet again.An …
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