How to mark an animal as deceased

There are two ways of deceasing an animal in VisionVPM:

1. Manual mode from the Animal Details window
2. Automatic mode from an invoice.

When you decease an animal, you can allow VisionVPM to automatically delete reminders, future appointments and future diary notes for deceased animals. To set up automatic deletion go to: Main menu > Maintenance module > Maintenance menu > System Defaults > Client tab.

Manually deceasing an animal

Go to: Clients menu > Animal Details > select animal.

1. From the Animal Details window, select the Deceased check box.

   

2. Click Save.

   If you have selected to automatically remove reminders as per above, VisionVPM will automatically delete all:

   • reminders,
   • appointments dated tomorrow onwards, and
   • diary notes dated tomorrow onwards.

   Otherwise, VisionVPM will display a prompt similar to the one below:

   

   • It is important that all outstanding reminders for the deceased animal are removed by clicking Yes to the above prompt.
   • If the animal has future appointments, VisionVPM will display a prompt similar to the following:

   

   • Click Yes to remove all future appointments.
   • Please note, VisionVPM will only display the prompt if there are appointments in the future for the deceased animal, not today's date.
   • VisionVPM will also remove all diary notes dated tomorrow onwards.

Automatically deceasing an animal

You will need to mark related stock items to decease an animal, for example, Euthanasia.

When you invoice the stock item, and you have selected to automatically remove reminders

VisionVPM will display a prompt, similar to the one below:

Click Yes to mark the selected animal as deceased.

If either the Hide animals Deceased or Hide animals Both option has been selected in Main menu > Maintenance module > Maintenance menu > System Defaults > Client tab, the deceased animal will not be displayed on the Client Details window.

If either of these option has not been selected, the deceased animal will remain on the Client Details window, but will be displayed in grey and at the bottom of the list.

Deceased animals will also be displayed in grey in the Animal List.