That is how I met Dr. Spooner, who is one of the most exceptional vets and humans I’ve ever met. Not only did he diagnose her correctly with high blood pressure causing the detached retina and total blindness – sadly too late (if diagnosed quickly it is reversible) because of the delay caused by Dr. Bhuller – but he treated her for the last months of her life in a way that can only be described as enlightened and with grace.

Dr. Bhuller’s office did not have equipment to check a cat’s blood pressure and when last I called in 2009, a year after my cat’s death, they still did not. How does one do a surgical procedure without checking blood pressure?

Dr. Bhuller and his staff were rough with my cat and very condescending to me.

The Yaletown Pet Hospital employs skilled and gentle techs and admin assistants who treat both the pet and caregiver with respect. They were extremely knowledgeable and open-minded when I did my own research and asked questions. Very professional. I take my current cat there and am still happy with them.

PLUS, all of the disciplinary charges against another INdo-Cdn. vet were recently dismissed by a BC Court on the basis that there was evidence of bias in the BCVMA proceedings…

Your specious “reasoning” for dismissing Dr. Bhullar’s claim appears to be that 1) it can’t be true 2) he didn’t call you back.

Your comment re: the licensing issue is also utterly ill-informed. The fact that he had a license has no bearing on the legitimacy of the claim that the English language proficiency test was being used as a means to prevent FURTHER Indo-Cdn vets from being licensed in BC. The standard being used by the BCVMA-one they were forced to scrap-was higher than ANY other profession in NA.

I’d just be a heck of a lot more cautious before posting someone’s picture on a website and making strong, uninformed comments.

As people who have actually followed this case know, it’s an economic issue that has become racialized because the BCVMA identifies the target group in terms of race…

7 days later I was forced to take my dog to the Animal Emergency Clinic as Rob Spooner refused to help my dog and deal with the complications this surgery caused him. He chose to email numerous times though re: my dog’s condition and listed numerous things that could be wrong but he wasnt in the clinic today. He was sorry though for the distress my dog was in and the distress the situation was causing me.

I filed a complaint with the BCVMA re: this incompetent, deceitful man and I can tell the public that they only discipline indo canadian vets.

Yaletown Pet Hospital breached more of the BCVMA code of ethics than Dr. Bhullar did but the BCVMA is protecting him. They are even keeping my dogs necropsy results from me to cover his ass.

I recently learned that Rob Spooner, owner of Yaletown Pet Hospital somehow kept tissue samples from my dead dog for 5 months after the necropsy was done and he refused to give me all the copies of the results as had been agreed prior to me agreeing to this.(The BCVMA lied to me about the existence of these records) and requested that tissue samples of my dog’s brain and lungs be sent to Saskatchewan for testing and that he had the final report.

Well I had no idea that this had taken place and this testing is why I wanted a necropsy 5 months prior but I was told the necropsy was done and over. He did not have my permission or consent to do things with my dead dog’s body parts. He did this after I filed a complaint against him with the BCVMA, told him he killed my dog and filed a lawsuit against him.

And guess who is representing this guy in my claim against him. Alastair Wade, the BCVMA lawyer who represented the them in the only 4 discplinary matters that are published against indo canadian vets. And those vets supposedly breached the exact same code of ethics that Spooner did but it appears Spooner isnt required to abide by the same rules.

The BCVMA is also “supposedly” investigating my complaint a year later but their lawyer is representing him in my civil claim.

Rob Spooner, Yaletown Pet Hospital committed the following breaches of the BCVMA code of ethics, all which can be supported by evidence

1. On December 5, 2008, he performed a surgical procedure on my dog, removal of a lump on his stomach, without my “Informed Consent”. He did not warn me of the many, many risks involved with this surgery, or give me all the information needed to make the right choice of treatment.
I have an email from him admitting this sent after my dogs death.

2. On December 5, 2008, R. Spooner performed another surgical procedure on my dog, removed a lump from his tongue, without my knowlege or consent. He informed me of this after the fact. So he most definately did not have my “Informed Consent ” here. Again I have an email from him admitting this after my dogs death.

3. On December 10, 2008 R.Spooner withheld vital information from me when he got the biopsy results back, those being that he had been unsuccessful in both surgical procedures and had left dirty margin cells behind, both lumps were malignant and had high chance of spreading. I didnt even know not getting all the cancer out was a risk as he never told me this. Again I have an email from him admitting this after my dogs death.

R.Spooner has refused to provide me all the results from my dogs necrospy and the BCVMA has supported him in not doing so.

R. Spooner stole my dead dog after I was told the necropsy was done and over, kept my dead dog for his own selfish motives, sent my parts of my dog out of province for further testing and had the results 5 months after and marked on the form submitted to this lab- name of owner unknown. Again the BCVMA supported him in doing this.

I have no idea what happened to my poor dogs dead body. They could have used it for teaching classes, research and experimental purposes, they refuse to tell me any information.

R. Spooner intentionally altered his medical records submitted to the BCVMA re: my complaint against him. 3 months ago I reported this to the BCVMA requesting to talk to the person “supposedly” investigating my complaint. Was told that person would get back to me if they wished to.

If R.Spooner was an indo canadian vet and did all the things he did to my dog and me, this complaint would have already been dealt with, he would have had his liscense suspended and fined big time just as the other 4 indo canadian vets were.

The BCVMA went after Dr. Bhullar because he is the only one who challenged them and they didnt like this.

Robert Ashburner, owner of the West King Edward Animal Clinic, who is also the chair of the BCVMA Conduct and Review Committee is currently named as a defendant in a civil law suit filed by a pet owner for killing their dog. On BC Court services online, his pet clinic is named in 7 separate civil lawsuits dating back to 1995 and a recent lawsuit was just filed against his clinic this November 2009.

Dr. Bhullar and the 4 other indo canadian vets are hardly the only ones to do what the BCVMA claims they did. Council members have committed these exact “supposed” breaches and they are still sitting on the council.

The BCVMA is a corrupt association with a mob mentality. They are only there to protect its members, they dont give a dam about the public and their pets. And should one of its members attempt to challenge their rules, they are taken out, eliminated.