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Icecream:
--- Quote from: k9doc95 on September 19, 2011, 03:06:10 PM ---IC- that is just down right cool. I do love a good microbology discussion. My husband is a computer guy and is now accustomed to my gross table conversation but I do have to remind myself to stick to neutral topics when out to dinner.
I can still gross my husband out on occasion. I pulled a cuterebra (basically a great big maggot) out of a kitten's neck the other day and that got to him. Kitten did great by the way...
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Oooooh I want to see a video of that.:D Poor kitty, must've felt alot better after you took it out though.
Ok I better do my prelab for today, cheese making today.
Snowleopard:
--- Quote from: Enjorous on September 19, 2011, 04:23:38 PM ---I thought vet's were always heroes? At least they are in my world.
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I'm with Enj. Vet's have always been heroes in my books.
K9 - why should a client get shirty with you about their pet's illness. Like you said - you didn't give it to the poor beast. I wonder if they get pissy because they're mad at the animal and you're just convenient.
Glad to hear that the kitten is okay.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Snowleopard on September 19, 2011, 07:02:17 PM ---I'm with Enj. Vet's have always been heroes in my books.
K9 - why should a client get shirty with you about their pet's illness. Like you said - you didn't give it to the poor beast. I wonder if they get pissy because they're mad at the animal and you're just convenient.
Glad to hear that the kitten is okay.
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I can sort of understand (if not empathize with) why people get snappish about their pets at the vet's office. They're worried sick - lots of people are just as attached to their pets as lots of people are to their children. Pets are FAMILY. And some people, when they get worried for someone they care about - human or animal- they get aggressive.
Doesn't make it any better, doesn't make it any smarter - and it's especially tough on the vets who mostly work tirelessly and without the compensation or general public recognition of their work (which is harder than for human-being doctors - humans can at least tell you where and how it hurts) that human-being doctors get automatically. Human-being doctors also tend not to get lashed out at nearly as much, because of the aforementioned pedestal. So vets get a disproportionate amount of grief.
It sucks. And it's unfair. But that's why.
k9doc95:
Snow-
Usually they get mad when you tell them something they don't want to hear. A lot of people come to the emergency room with their pets and they seem not to want the opinion of a vet but instead to hear that Dr. Google is right and their pet will be fine with xyz treatment. When you advise them that Dr. Google didn't go to vet school and is sadly incorrect they can get a little bent out of shape. Like I said, most of the time it is the stress talking.
I don't have a video of the kitten - wish I did. She was a stray and one of the other docs and I paid for her care and then we found an awesome home for her. Her new owner sent me a card with some great pics the other day. I keep it in my happy file. Most vets have a happy file. I keep every thank you note I have ever received and when I have a bad day I pull it out and read the cards and remember that I have helped people and their animals.
Actually, if I could have kept that kitten for myself I would have but the husband vetoed me. I did get to carry her around the hospital and snuggle for almost a full week before she was ready to go to her new home.
Chiroptera:
--- Quote ---I can still gross my husband out on occasion. I pulled a cuterebra (basically a great big maggot) out of a kitten's neck the other day and that got to him. Kitten did great by the way...
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Botfly! We found a lot of those on the rodents we caught while small mammal trapping.
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