A Mid Sussex woman whose pet died after an operation carried out without anaesthetic has called for the vet involved to be struck off.

Dr Ronald Porter carried out major surgery on Yvette Davey's dog, Lady, on a kitchen table.

However, a disciplinary hearing of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has decided to allow him to carry on practising, though he will not be allowed to carry out certain procedures.

Mrs Davey, of Framfield Close, Ifield, Crawley, said she thought the mobile vet should have been banned for life.

Mrs Davey said: "Lady can never be replaced. She would have been able to feel everything during that operation, which doesn't bear thinking about."

Dr Porter diagnosed Lady as having pyometra - an infection of the uterus - in June last year. He provided antibiotics and took her away to be spayed.

But during the operation, carried out at his home at in Capel, Surrey, Lady haemorrhaged and later died.

The committee heard there was no proper consulting room and instruments were boiled on a stove to sterilise them. The drug Domitor, used as anaesthetic, was merely a sedative, according to veterinary anaesthetist Gerard Brouwer.

Mrs Davey and her husband Mark paid £250 for the operation in June last year and Lady was returned the same day on a makeshift stretcher.

She could not walk, was breathing heavily and her ears were cold and lips pale.

Mrs Davey called to ask Dr Porter to return but the 11-year-old German shepherd-Staffordshire bull terrier cross-breed died before he arrived.

Dr Porter had originally denied four allegations of disgraceful conduct in a professional respect.

One allegation was dismissed. In the closing of the case, he changed his plea to guilty of the remaining three allegations of failing to provide post-operative care, using an inappropriate and/or inadequate anaesthesia and performing major surgery at inadequate premises.

Dr Porter was ordered not to carry out any surgical or anaesthetic procedures except in the case of euthanasia, when he would be supervised.

Dr Porter was also ordered to complete a course in surgical and anaesthetic procedures and to allow quarterly inspections of his practice.