[Pypeassesty]

Maybe the vet should have just reported the owner for dog fighting. I mean 25 visits, critical injuries,totally torn up chest, 20 drains in the head. At some point just call the police and let them know the owner has been fighting their dogs. End of discussion. Certainly a call to the police would have if nothing else put the owner on guard. It is not the place of the vet to worry about what AC will or will not do. Just like it was not Joe Paterno's place to decide what the authorities were going to or not going to do. He had an moral and legal obligation to report it at the very least.

This vet's office is disgraceful for their lack of action in the obvious face of animal cruelty. Whether or not the authorities took action, the vet did not even attempt to have the dogs removed form the owner and why not? Money was being made fixing up these dogs. I believe the vet's office is as responsible for the eventual death of the dog as the owner was by their inaction. They did not try and seemed willing enough to look the other way. Now the OP has plenty to say when it is too late. Please next time do something when there are this many warning signs.

What a compassionate vet. Any vet who could allow this to happen couldn't possibly care enough to be a good one. How many light bulbs do you have to remove from some kids ass, before you stop believing the parents story about how the kid keeps accidentally sitting on them?