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Got some disturbing news from the vet today.....

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Our little miniature dachound Toby had been feeling under the weather a little for the last couple of days so my wife decided to take him to a new vet. who just opened a office in the area.Understand, I was raised on a farm and have been around animals all of my life.On the farm we always took care of our animals ourselves-treating them when they were sick etc.If the problem was more than we could handle we called on a local vet. who has been in the business for 50 years.The old doc. will treat everything from a dog to a hog or cow and anything in between.
I have always taken care of the basic medical needs of Toby-worming,nail clipping,etc. while taking him to the old country vet for his shots-parvol,rabies,etc..The new clinic is for small animals only and advertised the latest in state of the art animal care.
I am not a doctor of any sort but I have worked in the medical field for several years and made a living taking care of folks with respiratory problems.With Toby not acting quite right and my wife being concerned I checked him out.I listened to him breath with my stethoscope and although he had a slight wheeze his lungs sounded clear.This pretty much ruled out pneumonia.
I didn't take his temp. but by his actions I suspected he had a low grade temp.He was eating and drinking o.k.-really wasn't all that sick just under the weather a little.My diagnosis....He had a cold.
My wife had her doubts,and to ease her mind I agreed that she could take him to the new vet (I had to work)
I got the call this afternoon from my wife.The vet did some blood work-Toby yelped a little when the needle stuck him.The vet listened to him breath,again Toby remained pretty calm.The vet went to take his temperature.....and Toby went nuts!
It was all the vet and his 2 assistants could do to hold the little 9 pound dog down and use the rectal thermometer on him!He tried to eat them up!When they finally finished the vet told my wife that the dog had some serious "issues" and recommended that he be seen by a animal behaviorist...!IE Dog psychitrist!!
The only other problem found was he had a cold!It cost me $100 for me to be told that my dog was nuts and had a cold!I told my wife that I must be nuts too because if 3 strangers tryed to hold me down and stick something up there I sure as heck would do my best to bite them too!
A shrink for dogs!I have heard of things like this on the west coast but never thought I would see it in rural Missouri....The next time that crazy dog needs a vet,I'm taking him to the old country dr.!!
 
drew the line when our vet wanted us to take our Weimer to a "doggie neurologist" in Memphis, two and a half hours away!!!! I love my animals, but you have to draw the line somewhere!
The only thing worse than have a nine pound dog getting his temp taken rectally would be a ninety five pound dog having it done! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
You have to feel sorry for them though, it turns them all into shaking, ferocious beasts! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> Glad it was only a cold though!
 
Sometimes, those vets are a little off the wall. I have heard of these psychologists, never had to use one. Never will !!!
Glad that it is nothing serious
All the best
M
 
animals have a way uf knowing who is friend or not---and no friend of mine, doctor or any other is gonnah stick something up my $$$........Toby , has houseatosis Danno.......the winter dust mites have him down........just, my thinking for once long time ago during a very bad cold winter, I lined all my dog kenells with carpet leftovers for warmth and all of them liked to have died from the carpet fibers
durn uppity doctors
 
The vet here was Burt Hill. Hill was an a$$hole, animals didn't like him at all, neither did people, but he had an old black man working for him that was a wonder with them. The old black guy could calm down any animal in a couple of minutes and they reacted to him as if he were their long time master, it was something to see. My oldest daughter, Bebe, was about 10 at the time and had a great big tomcat, one of the biggest I've seen and mean as a rattlesnake. He didn't like anyone but her and wouldn't let anyone else near him. If anyone but my daughter got close he would growl and spit to warn you, if that didn't scare you off he'd take a plug out of you. He came down with something, don't remember what the vet called it but he wouldn't eat, and my wife had me take him to Burt Hill.
My daughter put him in a box with no problems but by the time I got to the vets, which was only two miles, he had the box just about demolished and was squalling at the top of his lungs. I took what was left of the box, with the cat barely still in it, in and handed it to the old black guy. When he took the cat out it tried to get him but he held it tight against his chest, talked to it real low and soft and stroked it from on it's head down it's back. Within a couple of minutes it had calmed down and was letting him pet it. He was holding it against his chest, talking to it and still petting it when Hill lifted it's tail and jammed a thermometer up it's butt.
It went stark raving crazy and literally shredded the old black guys chest, no way he couldn't hold it and it got loose. It bounced off every wall in the room, knocking stuff off tables and shelves and squalling like a panther until a young black guy jumped on top of it and pinned it down. He lost some blood and skin but held it down long enough that Hill stuck a needle in it with something that put it to sleep in less than a minute. Hated to see the old black guy get scratched up that bad, and it was pretty bad. It got him on the left side of his face a couple of times that looked like knife cuts. Wouldn't have minded if it had got Hill. Took my daughter when I went after him, no problems bringing him home with her holding him.
My wife broke him of being so mean a couple of months later. He scratched her real bad on top of her foot and she beat him nearly to death with a broom, that changed his attitude a lot.
JB
 
....I've had dogs in the past,they are as individual as humans.Like I say I think he is pretty normal.I can't wait to get another dog,cats or ok but just no comparison to the love dogs give peaple.
Cheers ojm <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
most of their time is spent drumming up business. I would never go there again.
Dog shrink my butt. Sounds like that quack and the loonies that follow her on TV, Animal Psychic <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
 
had to beat her with a broom to get her to do her wifely duties <img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin">
 
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