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.

I was taking my Black Lab to the vet in the 2400 block of St. Johns St. here in Port Moody for the limp she was evincing. The woman (who was working without an assistant) had me leave Daisy for XRays which would require sedation.

Daisy stayed overnight. I returned late the next day to pick her up and the vet reviewed the Xrays with me.

I have no medical background so I accepted the diagnosis without question, “Hip Dysplasia”. The vet pointed out the many indications of the condition.

Daisy was very groggy for the day after the XRays and seemed to be in a lot of pain too.

The vet treated her for about 3 years, mainly for pain as her condition worsened. One medication she sold me was an extremely expensive form of Glucosamine, “especially formulated for dogs”. I unhesitatingly bought it.

The years went by and I was regularly taking Daisy to have her toenails clipped. It seemed she was slipping a lot and one place she was slipping was on the floor at the vet’s.

One day, the vet knelt down in front of Daisy, saying, as she did so, “this is going to hurt” and twisted Daisy’s leg. Daisy screamed in pain. The vet said nothing to me. She continued to treat Daisy for Hip Dysplasia as she had been doing for
the past 3 years.

One day, my neighbour’s dog, Sage, was hit by a car and they took him to Dr. Sharma, an East Indian vet in the area. They were enormously impressed with his work and attitude, particularly when they realized that Dr. Sharma had stayed at the clinic overnight with Sage. Sage was up and running around in no time.

I was impressed with the treatment my neighbours spoke of and decided to take Daisy to Dr. Sharma, partly because she was in pain and partly because she slipped so badly on my vet’s floor.

I told Dr. Sharma about Daisy’s hip dysplasia, wondering if he could help her. He said that Daisy would need XRays but because he was without an assistant, I should go to see Dr. Bhullar in Vancouver becuase he had the assistance and facilities to XRay big dogs.

I left Daisy there and was told to come back in a few hours (not the next day!) to pick her up. On the drive back I decided to stop at the vet’s to pick up the XRays she had taken 3 years earlier so that they could be compared to the new ones. I was surprised, when I get there, to find she was very reluctant to give them to me. I explained what I was doing, telling her that her floor was too slippery for Daisy to negotiate. Besides, I’d paid for them. She asked that I return them to her.

I took these XRays and showed them to Dr. Bhullar. He told me that: 1) the Xrays had been taken in the wrong position to diagnose hip dysplasia and these Xyays showed a normal dog and 2) Daisy had a broken cruciat (spelling) which is like a broken leg.

And, although I was picking Daisy up after only a few hours, she was alert and ready to go. Nothing like the grogginess I’d observed with the Port Moody woman. I don’t remember the cost of the XRays but I do remember it was nothing close to what I’d been charged in Port Moody.

The Port Moody vet must have realized what the problem really was when she manipulated Daisy’s leg but continued to treat her for a non-existant condition. And the Glucosamine? When I asked Dr. Sharma for a refill, I was charged a fraction of what I was used to paying. I questioned him about it, saying that Daisy was accustomed to getting a type of Glucosamine especially for dogs. Dr. Sharma put me straight on that.

Dr. Sharma is no longer practicing as he used to, so Dr. Bhullar is my vet now, even though he’s a long drive away. The 24/7 clinic is great. He charges no more at 3AM than he does at 3PM. I have a cat and a new dog (Daisy died) and I’ve found him so superior to any other vet I’ve encountered. He’s able to handle my new dog who, although he’s sweet and lovely with anyone else, turns into a fiend with a vet.

It isn’t going too far to say I hate that vet in Port Moody. Not only is she incompetent but she is dishonest and prideful and caused Daisy 3 years of pain. Needless to say, I did not return the XRays.

I don’t go to Dr. Bhullar because he charges less; I go to hime because he’s a fabulous vet – the best I’ve seen.

extremely expensive form of Glucosamine.

-Ben