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[DobieLover]

Mixed reviews at the new vet...
He was VERY smart and we are 100% in sync on how a dog should eat and be (or not be) vaccinated. This is worth a LOT to me.

The prices were reasonable. I did go ahead and get the girls vaccinated for Lyme as the new vaccines are better than the older ones that failed Bridget a month after she was vaccinated and contracted Lyme.

Piper is a cautious little dog. She was nervous at the vet and he was very business like and quick. She needed blood drawn for her parvo titer. I couldn't hold her so the vet had his tech come in. They held her as tightly as they could and the tech kept trying to soothe her but she kept jerking and yanking her leg back hard (she's very, very squirmy when she wants to be) and she kept tearing out the needle. After the first time, the vet immediately switched to a butterfly but she still did a number on her arm so they gauzed it and wrapped in with vet wrap. She was crying and Bella was absolutely loosing her noodle. She desperately wanted to get to Piper to take care of her. Poor girls.

I ended up with blood all over my hand and sweater and needed to sit down (or pass out) when he treated Bella. Also a blood draw and a Lyme vax. However, I knew Bella would just sit quietly and let him do what he needed to do.

Bella's blood work was basically perfect.

The building that houses the clinic is very old and the place was a mess. I wouldn't want my dog having surgery there.

I guess when all is said and done, I'm going to use him for my basic vet care because we are so in sync with everything.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good Afternoon Cafe! I brought more coffee - much needed today.

Sounds like quite the adventures you've had DL! I totally understand and after growing up in my fathers practice I don't trust many of them or their care/business practices. So much so that I had a hard time bringing myself to neuter Buoy over here as the vets are not up to the standard I am use to, but he's being done this week on Thursday as I just can't have any risks of breeding for when Salt comes into her first heat in a few months time. I could manage it if they were with me 24/7, but with my work weeks away in the city I will not be around to supervise all the time. I had wanted my father to do it, but things just haven't worked out to get Buoy west. Buoy has always been a laid back fella and is never not under my control, so there has been no rush to get it done.

I will wait to fix Salt until I am back west as it is a much more invasive surgery, which wonderfully will coincide with the appropriate time to do this.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am so glad I am retired I do my own. Morning Cafe.
think the one thing they can't tech humanity.

 

[Mtn Margie]

I heard thunder off in the distance this morning! It might just be thinking of starting Spring. 5 inches of snow on the way tomorrow, lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee! I was being a tele vet to a neighbor last night about their cat. I gave them some probiotics and a few suggestions to get it to eat something, but the cat doesn't do people and is crazy picky with food anyway so...
hopefully the vet can come to their house today.
I hope the storms didn't impact the Cafe ! Last "nice" day here before snow returns. Enjoy the day, Cafe!

B vitamins help stimulate appetite.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I am glad my vet is great. The two we used to go to, not so much. The one is nice and all and they’re pretty knowledgeable but they’re very expensive and they always try to upsell you on stuff (it’s a VCA) and the other was also very expensive but totally incompetent. The one we go to now is very reasonable and very competent and he’s older which I like.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

Nice a sore from working on the house for three days. Feels great!

 

[DobieLover]

The one we go to now is very reasonable and very competent and he’s older

This is why he's very reasonable and very competent. The new way of running vet practices is "get as much money out of the client as you can. That means push every vaccine the animal could possibly be given and every flea/tick/heartworm preventive and tell them it must be administered year round, even if it's sub-zero outside."

 

[ShrekDawg]

This is why he's very reasonable and very competent. The new way of running vet practices is "get as much money out of the client as you can. That means push every vaccine the animal could possibly be given and every flea/tick/heartworm preventive and tell them it must be administered year round, even if it's sub-zero outside."

Yup! That’s why we left the other place. They once told me they had some of something they could give me, which to me implies a free sample (should’ve known better), but then I had to buy it. Which I did because I was too nice to say no at that point since they’d already pulled it out. I’m working on getting better at that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

That wasn’t the only reason I left though. When I got the dog, they made it really hard to get in and were kind of rude on the phone like they didn’t want my business or something so I was like screw that and went back to our current vet.