Keeping RTAs DOA

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Steph Phillips — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:42:42 GMT

We keep for about a month and log down what the animal looks like, male, female etc.. and any info from member of public, like what street etc... - if no chip / collar; we keep them on a red bag, when sumerleaze collect, they know that red bag means either 'undecided' (if owner is deciding what urn, or whether to have ashes back or not) or 'do not take' ... either way, they leave red bags till we re-bag them in the appropriate one for collection.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

supamog — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:26:38 GMT

I agree it is surprising how many owners just don't think about phoning around local practices. I had put it on FB as someone had asked me if i had seen it and through a friend of a friend who was not a contact of mine, someone had heard that someones cat had gone missing. A good result but a shame about the cat which just happend to have been under treatment but no one took any details of it or passed it onto the rest of the staff. The owner was upset that no one had made a note of it coming in. Communication is the key!

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Vicky RVN — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:49:20 GMT

I've never worked at a practice that either doesn't keep them or only keeps them a week. Would do a month to give people a chance to come forward. I agree people don't think of phoning practices, they'll phone rescue centres maybe instead.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Gemma Burden RVN — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:59:49 GMT

I also agree that someone should have noticed that the cat is missing sooner, but the reality is that they don't always. Just because someone is supposed to be looking after the cat it doesn't mean that they actually go out of their way to make sure that the cat is ok, they might just chuck some food in its bowl and go again, and if there is more than one cat and the food goes then they won't know that the cat is missing. Also, people don't always think of phoning around the vets when their cat goes missing, we have had people only phone up when they have heard from a neighbour or someone who has got their details off of a lost poster that a cat like theirs had been taken to the vet. If you have the freezer space to do it I think its better to keep them a bit longer then no one can say that you have sent them off too soon.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Emma Purnell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:01:58 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

But even if the owners are on holiday, the cattery or person looking after the cat should have noticed it missing sooner than a month...???

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I agree, we had a couple that had gone before the owners came to us and they complained so we are trying to avoid it ever happening again I believe...

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:55:13 GMT

But even if the owners are on holiday, the cattery or person looking after the cat should have noticed it missing sooner than a month...???

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Emma Purnell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:36 GMT

We keep ours for a month usually as well, just in case people are away for a couple of weeks on holiday or similar.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Gemma Burden RVN — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:20:09 GMT

We usually keep then for a month as we have had a few owners only decide to look for their cat when it has been missing for weeks. We actually had one last week that the owner told us went missing around the 18th. The nurse that took the phone call happened to look a bit further back in our found book and found that I had picked up a cat that matched her cats description including having a very distinctive collar, but I had collected it on the 9th. It was identified and was defientely the same cat, so luckily we still had it.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Nicola Smith — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:06:38 GMT

We keep for 1 week and usually put in local paper, will also take a pic so if owner can bring a pic we can try to match up for them. Quite lucky that most of our are claimed.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Leigh Hinsley RVN NCert(BDev) MBVNA — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:26:39 GMT

we keep them for 10 days, then they go for crem

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Sarah Southworth RVN CertVNECC — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:22:04 GMT

we keep for week too, record as much info on them to put in lost/found book, so easier to identify.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Julie-Anne Wilson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:17:49 GMT

If it has no ID, I don't think we keep them. If it has some form of ID and we can't get in contact with the owner, we'll keep it for a couple of uplifts.

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Nicola Russell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:41:45 GMT

We keep for a fortnight, then they go for cremation

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Phrin Vernon RVN — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:28:38 GMT

Yup, we've always kept them a week too

Re: Keeping RTAs DOA

Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:50:24 GMT

[quote user="supamog"] We usually write "keep" or "do not remove" and wait a week[/quote]

us too