Waiting to go to the vets at 11.30am. Poor Dexter was vomiting quite a lot last night. Have a number of possibilities but looking forward to getting resasurance from our vet. Dexter is quieter than normal but we both had a restless night so not putting myself into panic mode. If he had deteriorated this morning I was told to rush him in. Not fed or watered him as he may need X-rays with sedation. Our dog babies are as worrying as our human babies. Oh and he also has a little bit of a mucky eye too. Hoping he doesn't have anything seriously wrong
Oh, poor boy. Hope the vet sets your mind at rest and that Dexter is back on form soon. They certainly do worry us!
Hope that everything is ok. I'm sure it's something he'll easily recover from. They do worry us terribly though, don't they?
Hope Dexter is soon feeling better and vet finds nothing really wrong. Vomiting is such a worry, particularly if unexplained. Let us know how you get on
Thank you all for your kind words, it means a lot to me. Well, not seen this vet with Dexter before, doesn't have the same rapor as the other vet. Ended up muzzling Dexter for the injections as he was so scared and nearly went to nip. He'd already told Dexter he was a naughty boy for wriggling away from the stethoscope and thermometer up his behind! Said he was very hyperactive and needed a behaviourist to teach him to be calm and to stop eating stuff he shouldn't. I can nearly always stop him or get him to drop it and so can my husband, yes, occasionally we do get caught out but blimey, Dexter's only 7 months old. The vet said he was a nightmare when in actual fact, he is a 7 month old puppy that doesn't feel to great at the moment and was worried, hungry, afraid and wanting to get away. He's never been a problem with the other vet or the nurses. Any way, I have some recovery food for him and some clay type paste and eye drops and a huge bill that I hope our insurance will pay Feel reassured in one respect but despondent in another.
Goodness, that sounds like an absolutely horrible vet! I know this was a bit of an emergency, but in future I'd try to get to see your nice vet. I have to be honest - Poppy (who is absolutely the best-behaved labrador ever) doesn't like one of the vets at our practice, and regularly growls and woofs at her. I just try to get to see the older, more experienced vet, as I think the younger one is nervous, and this translates to Poppy who then feels nervous herself and reacts by growling...
What a horrible man he sounds! How could any vet say that a patient of theirs is "a nightmare"?! That's just rude and massively unprofessional, not to mention indicative of a lack of understanding and care. I would be fuming! I hope the treatment works for him and you don't have to go back any time soon.
That's so depressing. Vets are often in a hurry and can't spend the time allowing you to completely desensitise your dog but that sounds pretty rough to me I have to say. I do think it's ok to ask for a vet to treat your dog differently, or ask for a bit of space/time to calm your dog down - easier to say typing on the internet than remembering in a stressful situation with a sick puppy, I completely recognise! I'm terribly bossy, after seeing Charlir through endless procedures, and pretty much direct how vets handle my dog and when they have to stop and feed him treats! Worth saying their are amazing vets too, that are fantastically good at sensitive handling, and I'm lucky to get to see one of these time to time.
In the practise I am going there are 2 vets. One very nice one, the other one same story as your experience with this vet. I always asks for the nice one, only in emergency I have to deal with the not nicer one! Euan and Finn like to go to the vet. They are getting nice treats. Once Euan growled at the nice one, that was because she hurtled him while examining him with his back problems. That is also she could tell that he was in terrible pain, otherwise he wouldn't have done this. My labs are eating all sorts of things. You always have to be on the watch out, no matter what age they are!
Thank you snowbunny, I have to go back on Friday or sooner if Dexter deteriorates but Friday's visit is with the other vet. I'm hoping between us we can both make it a more positive experience for Dexter and put this one behind us. I'm giving myself a good talking to and reminding myself of all the progress we have made through positive training. A lady I met the other day was asking advice from me but when I said about using clicker training her trainer had told her not to use it, this is the same trainer that the vet gave me details of. I'm not saying the trainer is wrong by any means, I've never met them but I know clicker training works for my boy and don't want to be getting all mixed up by changing everything at this stage. We just have areas and new things to work on and keep what's already learned fresh and ongoing. Poor boys never been poorly before, perhaps this vet needs to learn to give an animal time to calm down for a few minutes before diving straight in.
Thank you all, yes I'll definitely be asking for the other vet from now on unless it is an emergency. Hopefully by Friday, Dexter can be given treats again as his tummy should have settled. Even today after his first tablespoon of i.d. diet, I'm giving his little and often allocation and using it as treats, messier but keeps him occupied when boredom sets in and digging up the carpet tiles is just to rewarding. I'm calling him away, getting him to sit or down and then give him some of the pasty food off the tip of a teaspoon. Never one to miss a training opportunity but won't over do it Hoping we can both nap soon Thank you all for being here through the good, great and worse times
Goodness, what an unfeeling Vet! Poor Dexter needed tlc, not a full-on encounter with a grumpy vet! I've just changed my GP, and wouldn't hesitate to change Saba's vet if he received that sort of treatment. Here's hoping the other vet has a better doggy manner, and that Dexter makes a full and speedy recovery.
You know, whatever it is that ails Dexter is probably going to be fixed a lot more easily than that Vet's beside manner. Is this a new Vet at the clinic you go to? I bet talk gets back and that person is told to shape up or isn't around next time you go. I've seen it happen at our clinic. More good wishes for Dexter.
Poor Dexter, I hope he feels better soon. I had a similar experience at our vets. Two of the three are fantastic and Ella loves them but this one lady we saw for an urgent ear issue was mean and rushed everything. She went to put drops into Ella's ear and when Ella went to move away she just held onto her ear so it pulled and Ella squealed. She then kept going, even though Ella was clearly stressed and trying to pull away before she swung back and I was worried she was going to nip. The vet said "don't get nasty and make me muzzle you" and I felt like saying the same back to the vet! I agree with you.. Never going back to her unless it's a real emergency!
Snowshoe, no he's not a new vet. Both the vets are young but the other one that I usually see has a really lovely empathy with both the animal and the human. This one, although not horrible as I do, now that my pride or whatever you call it is back in place believe, is ok but just not for me or my dog. I don't know what country he comes from but it could be one where the general population do not think of our pets as we do. He was however very quick to put a negative judgment on my boy. He didn't raise his voice and perhaps just his use of the words hurt me too much. At least the vet I will see next time will be the really lovely one who has squirted the kennel cough vac up Dexter's nose, listened to his heart, looked at his teeth and looked and examined his boy bits all with a waggy dog tail before. Dexter is getting back to himself more now.
Glad to hear that Dexter is OK, but what an appalling vet. Try to remember that it wasn't Dexter who had appalling manners but the vet. Any animal that is unwell or in pain should be approached with care and time taken to calm the animal not accuse it of being naughty! Hopefully the visit to the nice visit on Friday will convince Dexter that vets are really nice people
