Columbia University Fined for Cruel Puppy Killings

Oz Dog # 6313

Day 1: Surgery—sternotomy (an incision in the center of the chest that allows access to the heart) and RF ablation (radio frequency ablation, which is a non-surgical treatment for abnormal heart rhythms in which a long wire is passed into the heart) for Protocol AAAA 024-200 1.
Day 2: “Chest tube was leaking”; suctioned out 430 ml and 300 ml bloody fluid from the chest tube site.
Day 3: “Leaking blood from either incision or chest tube?; bruising present at incision site”; face and muzzle still swollen.
Day 4: Dog 6313 eats small amount of food; “bruising still present, swollen all over body”; 300 cc of bloody fluid removed from chest tube.
Day 5: “Right front leg and left hind leg still swollen slightly”; jugular catheter pulled.
Day 6: Dog 6313 did not eat last night or this morning; aspirated 285 cc bloody fluid.
Day 7: Did not eat; aspirated 235 ml of bloody fluid.
Day 8: “Still not eating, incision clean, dry and intact but leaking.”
Day 9: Dog 6313 ate a bit of chicken.
Day 10: Not eating in morning; small amount eaten in evening.
Day 11: Temperature—103°F.
Day 12: Ate a small amount.
Day 13: Ate half of food offered.
Day 14: Ate small amount of food—notes say, “Picky eater!”
Day 15: Ate very little; discharge from incision.
Day 16: Red discharge from incision.
Day 17: Dog 6313 was found to be breathing heavily; Catherine Dell’Orto, the veterinarian who blew the whistle on Columbia, ordered that the dog be taken for x-rays, and she ordered that antibiotics be given.
Day 18: Did not eat.
Day 19: “Second day animal is not eating.”
Day 20: “Right ventral severe crackles; try chest tap this evening if no improvement—removed jacket to help breathing.”
Day 21: “Shivering, lungs sound conjested … seems cold, not eating.”
Day 22: “Breathing still labored, condition remains the same … no stool”; “chewing at her catheter, e-collar intact, lethargic.”
Day 23: “Weak, not eating or drinking, losing weight, breathing labored.”
Day 24: “Not eating or drinking, slightly dehydrated, labored breathing.”
Day 25: “No stool; K-9 vomited pepsid tablet—appears nauseous.”
Day 26: “Right foot starting to swell/cut leg wraps on both sides, top and bottom. Offered baby food (ham flavored) ate right from jar.”
Day 27: “Labored breathing, right front leg swollen; applied new catheter, rewrapped animal’s front right leg. Did not eat any of its food.”
Day 28: “Not eating, labored breathing, no stool.”
Day 29: “Does not want to come out of cage, right hind leg swollen; catheter out; chewed through [tube], not eating, breathing very labored, no stool, tried to feed—will not eat anything. P.M. PI [Mehmet Oz] took for last experiment.”

And that is Dog #6313’s sad story after she found herself in Columbia University’s laboratories. A diagnostic record dated August 26, 2002, reads, “Owner: Oz; Pet Name: 6313; Doctor: Popilskis.” Popilskis is the same veterinarian who ignored baboons dying in their cages after E. Sander Connolly cut their left eyes out and caused a stroke by clamping off a major artery to their brains. Let us hope that Dr. Oz doesn’t “own” any companion animals, and it should be considered that Dog 6313 may at one time have had a real name and a real family.

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