“”Pay out all this money and there’s a 20% chance that she’ll live or euthanize her, so it was hard,” said Gossett.”
That hardly sounds like she was “unwilling”.
She trusted the vet’s grim [and apparently incorrect] prognosis and got stabbed in the back for her trouble.
Actually, this sounds like fraud and the basis to abrogate the release she signed. The vet could be looking at a lawsuit if she is of such a mind.
The vet didn't say "guaranteed" to die, the vet said "likely" to die.
That doesn't sound to me like "stabbed in the back".
I have always held my dogs when they were euthanized so I wouldn’t be in this situation, but this story seems a little sketchy to me. The vet took her money for a cremation, so that doesn’t sound to me like the owner gave permission for the vet to do whatever they deemed fit with the dog. I wonder if she paid to have the dog euthanized too?
I know when I worked for a vet, once the receptionist asked if she could keep a puppy and try to raise it that someone had brought in to put to sleep (she asked the owner, not the vet). The owner said ok. But otherwise, the vet respected the wishes of the owner. I think this person, unless she signed something saying she was relinquishing rights to the dog, could bring action against the vet. AND get her dog back, altho she might have to pay the person who had taken the dog back for medical care. I guess it would depend on what a judge decided. Unless there is more to the story than this owner is telling.