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At TEAS, West Hunsbury — Kreacher's story
Kreach first came to our attention in July 2019 when the rescue he was in got in touch. He had been taken in by them a few months before, aged about 1½. When Kreach started losing weight, the rescue sought treatment. The vet said 'his jaw was a mess and more like a zigzag'. They gave him a dental under GA and said they'd have to see how long it would last.
Kreach started to lose weight again weeks later, which triggered the rescue to make contact with TEAS, as 'the vets up here think ethically he should be PTS, but he's young and loves life and deserves a chance to enjoy it'.
And do you know what? Enjoy life is exactly what Kreach has done, since arriving here almost four years ago. FOUR years. Consider that for a moment. If the vets got their 'ethical' way, Kreach would have been needlessly killed in 2019. However, thanks to the finely honed skill of Simon and Kim Maddock and the use of conscious dentals, Kreach has been living life to the full, always independently. His dentals are now months apart - his last tidy up took 3 minutes to complete.
The fact that qualifed professionals believe it ethical to euthanise a perfectly healthy animal because they don't personally have the skills to successfully treat (and sometimes cure) dental issues is where their argument is hugely flawed. If the procedure was unethical, not only would we not have continued to use it for Kreacher for four years, but neither Simon or Kim would be using it to give quality of life back to hundreds of piggies who otherwise would not be here.
Kreach first came to our attention in July 2019 when the rescue he was in got in touch. He had been taken in by them a few months before, aged about 1½. When Kreach started losing weight, the rescue sought treatment. The vet said 'his jaw was a mess and more like a zigzag'. They gave him a dental under GA and said they'd have to see how long it would last.
Kreach started to lose weight again weeks later, which triggered the rescue to make contact with TEAS, as 'the vets up here think ethically he should be PTS, but he's young and loves life and deserves a chance to enjoy it'.
And do you know what? Enjoy life is exactly what Kreach has done, since arriving here almost four years ago. FOUR years. Consider that for a moment. If the vets got their 'ethical' way, Kreach would have been needlessly killed in 2019. However, thanks to the finely honed skill of Simon and Kim Maddock and the use of conscious dentals, Kreach has been living life to the full, always independently. His dentals are now months apart - his last tidy up took 3 minutes to complete.
The fact that qualifed professionals believe it ethical to euthanise a perfectly healthy animal because they don't personally have the skills to successfully treat (and sometimes cure) dental issues is where their argument is hugely flawed. If the procedure was unethical, not only would we not have continued to use it for Kreacher for four years, but neither Simon or Kim would be using it to give quality of life back to hundreds of piggies who otherwise would not be here.
