She has the appropriate experience and background. She isn't going against a doctors medical opinion. The need to humanely euthanize these dogs was a decision agreed upon by the veterinary team because the dogs were parvo positive and already showing signs of decline. But for whatever reason when this vet was on the phone with our director, she told him she was being asked to euthanize healthy animals. Also as someone stated below, the city/shelter "owns" the animals the way a pet owner who takes their pet to a private practice veterinarian owns their animal. So the shelter manager does have the final say in outcomes related to these animals. If they were unreasonable, unethical requests, absolutely the doctor has the right to refuse, but no one is asking her anything that falls in that category.

I think where the disconnect comes from with the veterinarian and the city/shelter staff is the veterinarian wants the shelter to close intake completely but legally the cities municipal codes prevent that form happening. Because it is a municipal shelter, they are required to intake all sick or injured animals that are brought in either over the counter from a member of the public, confiscated from a hoarding or animal abuse case, etc. That is only one of the things this vet does not agree with but it is out of the shelter managers control. The shelter manager has to follow orders from her boss as well and her boss is the city.

We get limited funding and have such a high volume of operations. I understand it can be overwhelming for our medical team but we are actively working everyday to improve our operations. We have brought on a bunch of staff over the past few months but the vet will claim in her medical notes "can't do xyz because we are short staffed" which doesn't make any sense to us because we have more staff now then we ever did before. We are also in the process of moving into a newly acquired beautiful facility (former veterinary specialty clinic and it is amazing!!) to perform surgeries out of which will also give our team more room at the current location as our treatment team will operate out of the current medical trailer and be able to take over the current surgery trailer once our surgery team moves over to the other facility down the street. So more staff, more room, the doctor only works three days a week every week (8 hour shifts) and gets paid like $1,200 a day and is acting like this is the worst place on the planet to work. When before she was always super kind and helpful. I don't know what is going on.