I'm so MAD at my VET I am just shaking!!!!!!

[stacwase]

Thanks again for the support, everybody! I'm finally starting to calm down (over 24 hours later, LOL).

Glacier - that's so sad about Kyleigh keeping a bone ready all the time in case she doesn't get any more food. I sure hope Aspen won't have food issues. So far, she's doing fine. I'm feeding her a lot, though. She's eating more than Max right now, but she has some catching up to do. This morning I gave her 2 cups of kibble (for her weight it's only supposed to be one cup) and 2 scrambled eggs. Then she ate Max's eggs. Tonight she'll get 2 more cups of kibble.

[Chica]

ASPEN HAS A GREAT OWNER NOW! TIME TO GET A NEW VET! LEAVE THAT PISSY VET. I LIKE A VET THAT SHOWS A LOT OF COMPASSION.

[sabies]

What a horrible vet! That is so upsetting. Sounds like it's time for a new vet in your area - in the meantime I hope you can make the drive to the next closest one.

Aspen is adorable!!! She looks like such a sweetheart. I'm glad she has you to take care of her now.

[Glacier]

Originally posted by stacwase
I'm feeding her a lot, though. She's eating more than Max right now, but she has some catching up to do. This morning I gave her 2 cups of kibble (for her weight it's only supposed to be one cup) and 2 scrambled eggs. Then she ate Max's eggs. Tonight she'll get 2 more cups of kibble.

To help her gain weight, you can add rice to her food as well. Plain, long grain rice. Paxil gets rice added to her food as she's a "hard keeper"--musher talk for a dog that can't keep weight on.

[tomkatzid]

Aspen is really cute. And I'm sure will turn into the perfect pup !!!!

Very sorry to hear all this. It just makes it tougher on you to drive longer, but it's worth it !! Really sorry to hear about her car. Hopefully ins. will pay and it will be just a small amount. And as you know, thats why we have the ins . !!
Here is my story about a crummy vet. I bet there are a lot of us here that have sad vet stories.

When (RB) Tonee tore the ligament in her knee we went to the vet. He gave her an anti inflammatory and sent us on our way. The next night bloody diarrhea and a trip to the vet first thing in the morn. He said the diarrhea was not caused by the meds, so if she wasn't any better by Monday, (this was Saturday) to bring her back. Saturday night we had to head off the emergency vets. It was getting very severe. But they could only keep her at night and we had to transport her back to her reg vet for the day time. So Monday morning she goes back to them, and Monday night I take her back to emergency, she needed 24 hr care, and this time a different emergency vet was working. She took one look at her and said' she is ''cushinoid''. No one at our regular vet noticed anything different about her. The emergency vet knew by looking at her. That is why the anti inflammatory gave her diarrhea, mixed with the excess amount of cortisone in her body, they acted like bleach and ammonia and blew up her gut.

So Tuesday back to day vet, and Tuesday night when I went to get her to take her back to emergency for the night. They let me go in the back room and get her myself. I couldn't believe it. She was in a kennel right next to an ashtray that was piled so high with butts that it was over flowing. Here Tonee is almost dying and they put her in their smoking room. She was not the only dog in there. I have never been back there since.

I had used this vet for over 14 years. We now live 200 feet from a vet. And we choose to drive 30 miles round trip to one we feel we can really trust.

I took Tonee to a specialist after that for all her treatment, One hr drive each way. Her eye Dr was 1 1/2 hr each way.

We just do what we have to do.

[stacwase]

Thanks for the rice suggestion, Glacier - I'll do it. I think I'll cook up a bunch and add it to her food in the evening. I'll give her an egg or two with her breakfasts.

Tomkatzid, your vet story is awful. I just don't get how anybody could be that unprofessional and hard-hearted. Obviously they were stupid and unobservant, as well, if they didn't see Tonee was cushingoid.

You should just see how Aspen behaves nowb. Max is loyal and it has always surprised me how closely he sticks by me, especially when we're hiking and he's off-leash. He's very protective. But Aspen - oh, my! She's literally right on top of me. If I'm on the sofa, she's right here with her head on my leg. When I go to bed she's on the pillow next to me, and she has to be touching me. Talk about "velcro dog!"

Now that she's gaining confidence, and her ear infection is gone, she has an entirely different demeaner. Her ears both stand up proudly (though the tips are soft), and she holds her head high. Her neck is very long. She sits with her front paws crossed. She's so graceful, she reminds me of Cleopatra. I ought to rename her "Jackie O.