...TO WANT TO KILL OR MAIM THE VET?????

[salsmum]

My daughter is disabled and we took her rescue kitten (18 weeks) to be castrated,microchipped etc... to a very well known cat and dog neutering clinic which offers subsidised vet care (similar to PDSA) my daughter is on Incapacity Benefit. Her kitten 'Ollie' has dark brown gomads against cream coloured back legs. While at work I rang my partner to ask if everything went ok when he collected puss.....he said there was a problem although stated he'd tell me when I finished work (9pm). when he picked me up I was and [shocked] and upset to find that the vet had in fact shaved and opened up puss to spay HIM thinking HE was a HER I am so angry and mad that a 'qualified' vet could put my cat under the stress and pain of 2 operations (they castrated him as well) without realising he was a MALE...I wonder if there is a vets 'ombudsman' who can advise what I can do...there was NO apology and they mearly offered to knock £20 off the bill I now have a cat with a shaved side and stitches on side and on 'gomads' I really don't want this mistake to happen to any other animal. My partner was speechless and couldn't say anything he was so shocked. Are there any vets who can offer advice please???.

You won't get compensation from them

Maybe some free flea treatment/vaccination/working tablet, maybe

Its not acceptable that the wrong site is opened for an operation. In a human this would be seen as clear negligence, and there are procedures in place in operating theatres to double check the procedure and its site.
I dont think its OK for vets to shrug their shoulders, if there was a procedure where before any operation they reviewed the notes and checked that they had the correct animal, the OPs cat would not have been subjected to the additional pain and scaring.

AISL you are right if they apologised and had let us know this had happened it would have softened the blow...My partner told me this morning that they told him about the f**k up AFTER he paid (while they were bringing puss from the other room,

My cat was operated on to be spayed, then was found to be male, and was castrated.
To be fair, his, erm, manly bits were very tiny, and we're difficult to detect - apparently this is something that occasionally happens.
The cat healed well, and was no more distressed than our other cats who have just been castrated.
Mistakes happen.

Thinking that a cat is female, doing the correct procedure for that, and then discovering that the cat is male, is a bit different from the vet knowing that the cat is male but doing the female type operation anyway.

You should be able to sex a cat, no matter how small the knackered, if you are a vet!

18 weeks is very young for castration. If the kitten had been 6 months old it would have been more obvious that he was a boy.

sunflowerseeds, I rang to see how old they have to be on tues (thinking 6 months too) they told me to bring him in friday and that 18 weeks was NOT too young, as said in my original post he had dark brown knackers against light beige legs (he looks like a choc point Siamese) so you can see them even if you're not a vet!