Moe Bracken DVM Emergency Animal Medical Hospital Killed my Precious Pet Piggy Wilbur in the most horrible way imaginable St. George Utah

Dr. Bracken absolutely killed my Wilbur and this is how he did it. Jeremy, my son, said he was brutal with Wilbur, he completely traumatized Wilbur and didn't stop chasing him and torturing him. He had an unskilled, unknowing person rope Wilbur's mouth and literally sit on him to restrain him.  He said pigs are more sensitive to sedatives and you'd have to be more careful ...so why wasn't he, he didn't sedate Wilbur?

He had my son brutally rope and fight my pig in retraints, while he was screaming and trying hard to get away then cut his tusks with a Dremmel tool!

My neighbor asked if my pig was dying when she heard Wilbur screaming that day and into the night because of the way Dr. Bracken treated him.  I'm thinking that any vet that knows this would be extremely careful especially when he saw how Wilbur responded to his treatment. Why didn't he stop and do something different? Why when I called him couldn't he have told me this, given me some sort of treatment for him?  I cannot believe he took an oath to care for anything that lives and breathes. He doesn't care on bit about the animal, only the money! He should have brought an assistant, someone who knew what they were doing first and foremost then he should have stopped when he saw the absolute horror Wilbur displayed and done something different.
He didn't try to reduce Wilbur's stress at all, he caused it. 

Wilbur was already stressed when he did something to shift his tusk so his mouth couldn't close all the way and he couldn't eat.  Dr. Bracken knew the story, by the time he had time to come to Wilbur it had been three days since Wilbur would have been able to eat so he was already not well in his present state then to have my son who happened to be visiting (otherwise it would have been my 70 year old mother home with him alone) literally hog tie my pig who never in his life had ever experienced anything but gentleness.  He got tucked in on cold nights with blankets, his house and his front porch were carpeted, he had his own pool and a 20 x 20 ft shade sail over his yard, how would this man think Wilbur wasn't traumatized by the treatment he received?  My son said Wilbur was SCREAMING, SQUEALING and franticlly kicking, bucking, pounding his head....he had never heard or experienced anything so pathetic in his life.  My son said, "Mom, I never want to do ANYTHING like that again!"

Wilbur continued throughout the night to cry out and beat his head against my house and his house, this went on all day and night.

I called Dr. Bracken the second day after he was there and told him that Wilbur was bleeding from his mouth, he was soaking his mouth in his water trough and he's still not eating.  He said, "well...I don't think I cut his mouth when I cut his teeth"... to call him Monday if he wasn't any better  After he got his $260 he didn't seem at all concerned to me. Wilbur passed away on Saturday night, the night before Easter Sunday...he never made it to Monday and I never got a call back from Dr. Bracken or any of his staff after I had left the message that Wilbur passed.

This is what the Vet journals say about What he did to my poor Wilbur. Capturing and restraining an injured or ill animal is extremely stressful, and the rehabilitator's (or Vet's) primary goal is to reduce stress by minimizing pain and distress.

Stress is the body's reaction to abnormal states (e.g. infection, extreme temperature, injury, fear) that disturb the normal physiological equilibrium. Fear, fright or rage activates the hypothalamus, causing massive discharge of the sympathetic nervous system to prepare the body for vigorous muscle activity. University of Alaska FairbanksStress can result in capture myopathy, a disease complex associated with capture or handling of any wild species. Capture myopathy occurs when an animal cannot cool itself; the key feature of capture myopathy is hyperthermia (an increase in body temperature).

Factors involved in capture myopathy include:

Drugs used for restraint (particularly xylazine) cause an increase in body temperature. For this reason, these drugs must be reversed after use.
Muscle Pump: muscles exert a pumping action as an animal moves and this aids blood flow. When normal movement is taking place 15% of the total blood volume is in the muscles. In a drugged animal, 25% will pool in the muscles causing a drop in blood pressure. Lactic acid builds up and cooling is reduced.
Fear: the single most important factor in capture myopathy.
Environmental temperature
There are four categories of capture myopathy: peracute, acute, subacute and chronic.

Peracute capture myopathy: death may occur in a matter of minutes due to low blood pH, acidosis, potassium release from damaged muscles and heart failure. There are few post-mortem signs.

Acute capture myopathy: the animal lingers before it dies. Muscle rupture may occur and the animal, if able to stand, will be ataxic. The condition could be confused with enzootic ataxia. Death occurs in 24 - 48 hrs.

Sub-acute capture myopathy: acidosis causes muscle and kidney damage. Urine may be a dark brown colour. Recumbent animals often have their necks twisted back. Death follows within a few days.

Chronic capture myopathy: animals may survive several days or months but will often die suddenly from a heart attack.

Treatment: prevention is the only treatment for this condition. Once the condition starts it is always fatal. 
Capture Myopathy