just went in to the vet and got home really pissed off. it started a while
ago when my dog became more and more ill with his stomach and had to throw
up regularly.

took him in to the vet who didn't even bother to take an xray of his tummy
and just sent me home (after much complaining from me) with pills and some
new formula of food that would make everything better.

things didn't really change so they put him on yet another type of food as
i became increasingly infuriated over the fact that they didn't bother to
take an xray even the second time.

anyways, with a lot of patience and my own formula of rice and chicken and
a small portion of his original food i got him to become better.

but now, thanks to the damned food from the vet his teeth got all ruined
with a thick coating of smut which has to be surgically removed.

which really totally freaked me out since he's 5 now and i've always been
brushing his teeth and they were excellent up to two months ago before he
went on the vet's food.

they claim it's nothing to do with that and they even went as far as to
say that it must be something else (anything, except for them)

so just now i had to drop him off to get his teeth cleaned.

went in and this woman just rushed in and started shaving some hair off
his paw, at which i said "i don't know what you're doing but this dog is
not going to like that, i advise you to just give him the shot in his
back or neck since that is where he always gets his shots because he is
very sensitive in his paws"

yeah, well, she said this was the only way and that it had to be shot in
his vein for him to fall asleep rapidly.

stupidly, i said "well ok than let's try it"

fcuz this didn't work since he jerked away his paw, growled like a rabid
wolf and launched the syringe across the room.

"oh, he's a very angry violent dog" she concluded and proceeded to bind
his mouth shut with a piece of cord at which he became very stressed and
started whining like a puppy



i got so mad that i told her "look lady, if you touch his paw again i'm
gonna trash your office ok, so put the syringe in his neck or i'm out of
here".

all of a sudden it was ok to give him the shot somewhere else

then they wanted to take him away before he even fell asleep since they
had more people waiting and he'd taken up enough time already.



so i just gave them this look at which they backed off quietly
and said "ok, how about we leave you alone with him for a while and as
soon as he's ready you can call us"



he's on the op table right now I think and they'll call me as soon as
he's waking up. but this is the last time i've been to that vet. i'm
gonna look for another one now cuz they continually tick me the f off








sunbathing

oh no ....joris i hope you find a vet that can handle things. these people sounded like they were used to working with Requiem for a Dream dogs.

Christopher said:

lol

they're gonna hook my dog on diet pills

Hey Lars,

Sounds like that vet needs a shot in her neck, more like.

I hope all goes well and your dog's feeling better soon.

They sound horrid, and they're meant to be the ones who treat animals well.

Loving the sunbathing photo by the way, I'm glad he's not as ill as he was.

Diva said:

he's actually doing very well again at the moment. i still think
he had something wedged in his stomach or intestines and that it
just came out after a while, it's the only explanation i have.

the sunbathing pic is one i took with the webcam. it was winter
and he just can't wait for summer to arrive when i can leave the
office door open and he can lay there sunbathing.

but in winter whenever the sun does shine he follows it across
the floor all day with his back lying on the heated tiles and
his tummy up toward the sun lol.

i'm gonna call them in 30 minutes to see if they're done
with cleaning his teeth and to ask if i can come pick him
up.

they told me 02:00, which is just not acceptable for some
procedure that takes 30 minutes. why would they need to
keep him there for over 5 hours? just to have him wake up
from his sedation? i can look after him at home and keep
him warm and all.

but let's wait what they have to say before i go mental
and "serenity now" on their asses

IstenSzek said:

oh no ..dont tell me mariah is still working there? she likes to "suggest" things

thats no good follow your mind on this one....


youre lil baby is cute


kinda looks like my corgi's




[Edited 4/27/06 6:07am]

A) This was a true Serenity Now moment...

B) You could have flipped-the-fuck-out on them and it would have been totally approriate. You're so right to find a new vet. No one should treat your baby that way!

vets-robbing posh upper class 'no cap on fees' thieving bastards

i work in intensive care and the main sedative we use is propofol-same as a vet-however funny how a bottle is roughly 7 quid-yet a vet will charge up to FIVE HUNDRED QUID to knock your dog out

he's a corgi? i love these guys. get a better vet asap

applekisses said:

Glad he's ok now. And you absolutely MUST find a new vet.

nakedpianoplayer said:

actually, i think he's a cross between a jack russel and a corgi.
i'm not sure though since the people with the pups didn't really
know who the father was lol.

his mother was a bit of a slapper

IstenSzek said:

well, hes a cutie anyway

have you heard anything from the vets office about how hes doing ?

and he's doing quite well. his teeth look absolutely amazing.
clean white and polished, ready for biting old lady's ankles.



he's still not really out of the sedative state and when he
tries to walk he kind of falls on his face so i have to stay
close to him all the time because he always wants to follow
me wherever i go and he can't do that now since he can't get
up on his own.

he knows he's cute and sad right now so he's abusing that to
the maximum lol. he's got me wrapped around his paw.

IstenSzek said:

AWWWWW thats wonderful


so glad hes doing well.....

nakedpianoplayer said:

I called that about 2 hours after i brought him in and they said
he was waking up but they wanted to keep him there for another 4
hours (!!) to see how he was doing.

so i just got in my car and picked him up. fcuz there was another
argument when i wanted to take him home. so i said "listen, you
guys have him in the back on recovery with other animals and you
are checking up on them every half hour, i know how this works.
so i will take him home where he can ly in his basket wrapped up
in a blanket next to my desk, so i'll do a better job of this in
any case"

now gimme my dog back



so i took him home and he's just resting now.

Christopher said:

yeah, she was there, but she was to busy dressing a horse
in a vivian westwood original and red leather high heels.

nakedpianoplayer said:

and can i just say that your corgi's look absolutely adorable.

i sooo love those doggies and those two are prime specimens!

IstenSzek said:

if they put him under anesthesia then he's going to need some time to wake up. Even though the procedure itself takes 30 minutes, they have to wait for him to go under, do the procedure, and then wait for him to wake up and be alert enough to go home. Not to mention that there are probably other procedures going on that day.

I used to work in a veterinary hospital and for some reason the fact that we saw more animals than just their's and that anesthesia takes some time to recover from were the hardest concepts for clients to understand. Clients would drop off their pet at 8:00am and then call at 8:30am asking if they could pick their pet up yet even though it was explained to them multiple times that they could not pick up until 5:00pm AND they had to sign an agreement. A veterinary hospital, while being a hospital, is a business as well and must see more than one pet a day to survive.

As far as your dog's teeth being ruined by the food that they gave you, it's not likely. They most likely became ruined from the constant vomitimg. Besides, even if you brush your dog's teeth regularly, you should still get his teeth professionally cleaned at least once a year.

I have no idea why your vet didn;t do an x-ray on your dog's stomach to check for a foreign object but sometime's that's not really needed. The most common sign of a foreign object lodged in the intestines is diarrhea and vomiting accompanied by an unwillingness to eat. But still...better safe than sorry, your vet could have at least discussed the option with you.

And the scene with the IV sedative...well, that shoulld have been done in another room without you present. Yes, without you present. Very rarely did we even take blood from an animal in front of the client because the client freaks out more than the animal. The animal is stressed already because it's in the vet's office but then you have the fact that their owner is there watching them and doing nothing while they're getting treated. It's horrible. So we did most of that stuff in another room and the pet was usually much calmer. Even if we were giving an intramuscular shot for sedation we would ask the owner to leave because so many people freak out when they see their pet starting to go under.

Anyways, that's my two cents from the other side of the desk.

I'll be your pet! I never get sick!

IstenSzek said:

thank you


those two "prime specimens" got loose this morning and were
running all over the neighborhood

i was not appreciating them at all this moring at 7:30 AM...
it was DAMN COLD outside and the grass was wet, and i was barefoot....

Your story made me upset. Good vets can be hard to find. I hope you find someone better.

I had a vet tell me my dog couldn't be sick with a certain ailment because he wasn't old enough. I was like "He's 13." The doctor was like, "Oh, he's that old?" WTF! He always looked and acted young for his age, but that's just ridiculous. The vet had his records right there and we've been going to the same vet for years. I told my mom not to take our pets there anymore.

JasmineFire said:

and a very reasonable, well put 2 cents it is

thanks for you lengthy answer! i do understand what you are saying and
indeed, i guess i did over react to some of the things going on. which
just made me realise how crazy i am about the little pooch lol.

but yes, we do forget sometimes that these people have more to do in a
day than just look after our pet like it's the only thing they do that
day.



anyway, thanks for the answer. especially about the teeth being ruined
by the constant vomiting. why the hell didn't i think of that yet?

Imago said:

sounds good.

IstenSzek said:

Christopher said:

awww he is so cute. I miss my puppy...well he is not a puppy...he is a full grown dog now but will always be a puppy to me.

IstenSzek said:

thanks, babe!

now don't get me wrong, you do have reason to be upset as some of your vet's care was incomplete. If I went through that ordeal with my cat, oh lawd....i would be more than a little miffed.

i'm glad that everything turned out okay and that your baby is healthy again.

i feel like hearing people talk about their vets, both the good and the bad stuff, will help me to become a better vet once i start practicing (i'm in school now )