Odd Vet visit (minor vent)

[Glacier]

Tamara, maybe they're more leinient to you because on the sheer volume of your collective visits! They don't allow observers at the vets here.

After hours it saves me money to stay with the vet. It's 75 bucks an hour to have the tech come downstairs(she lives in an apartment over the clinic). Rick knows me well enough to know that I rarely freak out about the blood and I usually know what he's going to do anyway! I know many things I truly wish I didn't about vet medicine! I sometimes long for the days when he had to explain every little thing to me! The only time he's ever asked me to wait out front was the day Hoodoo died and I was hysterical. I came unglued after he did a deep pain reflex test with no response from Hoodoo.

When we lived down south and only had a couple critters, I changed vet clinics repeatedly until I found a vet who let me come into the back room. Several refused to let me in, even for a simple blood draw. That makes me highly suspicious. I wouldn't let a doctor wander off with my human child(if I had one!). Why would I let a vet take my furry kid?

[Lady's Human]

To add insult to injury........

They changed something in the heartworm pills.

Lady used to BEG for them. I just had to use the tested family method for how to pill a resisting puppy.

(Don't worry, she got chicken in her supper tonight as condolences for her rough day)

[cyber-sibes]

The vet tech walked in and asked if Ginger would let her take her temperature. I thought that was an odd question. She is a dog, what choice does she have (I told the tech yes she would, but not to expect a Christmas card from her ).

You made me laugh with this one! I'll have to remember that line.

[pitc9]

I think that most of the time, the vets & techs are so busy; they don't feel they have time to read charts. They just walk in to a room, reach for a dog so they can get done and get on to the next dog. They just don't have the time to slowly approach a dog and let them calm down. My 2 are frightened out of their minds at the vet’s office, but seem to do the best with females. There are 6 Vets at our office; the only 2 women have left!!

The first time I had to see one of the men, he walked in the exam room and my 2 are trying to both shove themselves under the chair I'm sitting on
So he could clearly see they were afraid. I told him they are afraid and might need a little time to warm up to him. He's lucky he didn't get bitten when he reached under the chair and tried pulling Buddy out!!

It's clear to see that some schools don't teach common sense to their students!