And yet more about Dr. Linda F. Jennings and Brambleton Veterinary Hospital
OK, get this. Dr. Linda F. Jennings of the Brambleton Veterinary Hospital — who I wrote about here and here — had threatened to sue us if we told people about the horrible treatment we got from her and her staff.
That’s foolish on the face of it, but then she took a trip to la-la land. She contacted the local SPCA and demanded that they fire my wife.
Dr. Linda F. Jennings, there are some things you need to keep in mind.
1. Only in the movies can you say something like “I’m going to get you fired.”
2. You have to be more than a vague acquaintance of the person you’re making the demand of.
3. If you call someone you hardly know out of the blue to complain about someone they hardly know, you don’t look like the brightest light in the night sky.
4. If the person you’re trying to get fired gave you a well-written and reasonable letter of complaint, it doesn’t help your case to fax that to people. (But thanks anyway!)
5. Finally, if you want to get someone fired, it kind of helps if they actually work at the place you’re calling. My wife doesn’t work for the SPCA. She’s a volunteer. We help out at functions and foster puppies and kittens.
Dr. Jennings also called the SPCA’s vet, whom she had never met, to complain about us. [blink blink] How would that conversation have gone?
“Hi, I’m doctor Linda Jennings of Brambleton Veterinary Hospital. You don’t know me, but you should know that someone who you may have seen around the SPCA is a bad person.”
“Huh? Is this some kind of joke?”
Now keep in mind that Linda F. Jennings DVM had threatened to sue us for daring to tell people about the treatment we got from her and her staff, yet she thinks it’s perfectly fine to try to ruin our livelihoods by getting Karen fired. (As far as she knew, Karen actually did work there.)
And remember, we had paid our bill in full and on time. So what did she have to complain about? “Hi, you don’t know me, but I think you should fire someone who doesn’t actually work there because she didn’t let me push her around.”
So today I filed complaints with the Better Business Bureau and a local vet group. Tomorrow I’m sending one to the Virginia Board of Veterinary Medicine’s Enforcement Division detailing what I consider to be Dr. Linda F. Jennings’s unethical conduct.
pwils says:
Gee Andrew, sounds like you have grounds to sue her and the veterinary hospital! We have two poms and we are very protective of our dogs (children). We have been using the same vet for years and only recently have decided to change as the clinic no longer seems to give the quality treatment we are used to. Of course we live in Connecticut, but still, there is no reason for the treatment you or your precious pet received. As clients for years from our vets, in an emergency or if we forgot our checkbook, there has never been a problem for them to bill us. The whole incident is crazy…….go for broke, she keeps it up……..sue her………..
We have friends that live down in that area and will pass the word………