Siegfried returns home to find his Guineafowl have escaped resulting in a poorly wrist.
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Siegfried returns home to find his Guineafowl have escaped resulting in a poorly wrist.
Look, it’s them! And how sweet Christy looks, standing there like that. Too bad his nose isn’t in the photo.
Hide and seek 2019.
After playing hide and seek with cows for three years (one, two, three) I’ve come to accept that they will never outgrow the level of three year old children. I have to pretend I don’t see them and call out ‘Where oh where could she be?’. Then they half leave their hideout and shout ‘I am here!’, and I still have to act like I really can’t find them. The following bursts of laughter never get old.
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Non-compliant owners
Anonymous said to @ask-drferox: Is there a way you deal with non compliant owners ? Like with giving medications that can be critical to managing symptoms and owners either forget or say they just do it as needed instead of following directions?
This is an ongoing and persistent issue in veterinary medicine for sure, and probably human medicine as well.
The general public is an extremely frustrating beast, owing largely to their reluctance to communicate with us, but also a lack of education and thinking that they know better. This can lead to situations such as:
Saw a side effect from the medication after two days, stopped medication, didn’t tell me until they came to their recheck 2 weeks later and said that it wasn’t better, but they’d only given two tablets.
Stopped giving antibiotics a few days before course ended so they would have ‘spares’ to give next time the problem occurred.
Starting up the antibiotic ear ointment for just a day or two any time teh dog seems to be shaking its head more.
Stopping the epileptic medication because ‘she hasn’t had a seizure since she started the medication’.
And that’s clients with fairly normal cognitive ability, it doesn’t factor in our clients with memory problems.
This has been a strong force in the drive to develop veterinary medications that are ‘one and done’ sort of treatments. It means we’ve got handy things like:
Pro-heart SR12, a heartworm preventative that lasts 12 months, and doesn’t matter if you’re 3 months late giving the future doses. It’s hard to forget a once a year injection you get sent letters for.
Percorten V, an injection for Addison’s treatment that lasts about 3 weeks
Convenia, an antibiotic injection that lasts 10-14 days so owners can’t miss a dose, or keep spares
Osurnia, an ear ointment that you apply once a week for two doses, so the owner can’t miss a dose or keep spares to use ‘as needed’.
Trocoxil, a once a month anti-inflammatory tablet, useful for old arthritic dogs living with owners who have dementia if their family can’t visit every day for the dog’s meds.
These products come at a premium, but they’re extremely useful for non-compliant owners or non-compliant pets. Especially the people that don’t complete their antibiotic course, after a while I stop giving them tablets as an option.
If I don’t have one of these options, by the time I realise the owner has been non-compliant with the medication, I have a couple of options.
The first is to have a good chat about why compliance has been an issue. Is the pet just increasingly difficult to medicate? We can talk abotu compounded medication. Is it side effects? We can work out an alternative.
Is it just memory? Well that’s the harder one. We can call more frequently with reminders, or set up a system in the phone, or pill boxes, but we need the client to work with us on that one. And sometimes we need external help from carers or family.
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This series is not very fertile for drunken Tristan, but he is gorgeous as always)
submissions of pets! i actually have a grand total of 8 furry children in this house so i’m not going to spam them all at once, but first up is Whisper. and Whisper’s furry shadow after being brushed.
I’m just kind of waiting for that furry shadow to spring to life, it’s almost big enough.
The Fight with Sir Marhalt, from ‘The Story of Tristan and Isolde’, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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🐖Sometimes I scare them
Anonymous said to @ask-drferox: 🐖 How do you go about client education on some topics without offending/scaring them? My grandma-in-law feeds her Yorkie bacon, and I told her that she shouldnt do that (in a nice way), but she said “oh it’s only on the weekends!”. I know high fat foods can lead to pancreatitis, and I just dont know how to give the facts confidently while still keeping the conversation positive.
Sometimes I shrug and do just scare them. I have to be seen as honest and trustworthy to do my job well, but I don’t have to sugar coat everything.
Because I generally don’t know a given pet owner as well as you’d know a family member, I start by trying to gauge how they feel about a situation. It’s important no to come down too harshly on anything straight out of the gate, or people will lie and tell you what they think you want to hear. This helps nothing.
Then I will move onto the fact that I don’t recommend doing that thing, or how I would recommend doing it differently, and why.
Then I will elaborate on the potential or likely consequences of doing the thing they are doing, and, most importantly, what it will cost.
So it boils down to they can either listen to the free advice, or potentially spend over a thousand dollars in the near future. And if they don’t take that advice, at least they’ve been warned and hopefully wont moan too much about the bill.
The script I use for pancreatitis goes something like this:
I bet Yorkie enjoys the bacon, but moderation is key as too much in one go will make his very sick. He’s much, much smaller than we are and can’t handle that much fat very well, especially as he gets older.
Too much fat in one go can induce pancreatitis, and dogs can have mild episodes on and off for a long time before they have a big one. A mild episode might look like a dog that vomits once, or missed one meal, and you almost called the vet but then they were back to normal in the morning. Has he ever done that?
Eventually these little episodes will turn into a BIG episode and he’ll be admitted to hospital because of all the pain, nausea and potential sepsis going on as the pancreas tries to digest itself. Sometimes they even become diabetic as a result. And that diabetes may be temporary as the pancreas heals, or it can be permanent.
He might be in hospital for a week or more if it all goes well, and sometimes it does not go well, and most are usually in hospital for at least three days. You might spend $1000 to $2000, that way, plus ongoing costs for insulin if he is a diabetic then.
Unfortunately pancreatitis becomes more common as dogs get older, and I can’t do anything about him aging, but we can control the fat in his diet.
We often see these cases around Xmas time when the dog gets leftovers, or after a celebration or a big weekend. It’s really common, but better to prevent than cure, right?
It’s okay to provide information that’s scary, so long as it’s not accusatory, because that will make people resistant to change. Sometimes they need boots applied per glutes to Get The Message Across.
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3.01 Plenty to Grouse About: “…more profound than my own….”
With his arrogance, callousness and casual cruelty against people as well as animals,Lord Livingston’s estate manager, Murray is a pretty easy guy to loathe. Thus, having already gotten on Siegfried’s bad side, he quickly manages to irritate Tristan as well during this scene where Tristan is trying to reason with him about the louping ill problem affecting the farmers.
Sadly, just when it looks like Tristan has successfully argued his point, Murray manages to hit one of Tristan’s soft spots by pointing out that he’s not officially qualified even if he already has the skills and knowledge of a talented young vet. Immediately, you can see Tristan’s confidence start to falter.
Then Siegfried steps into the conversation. He goes straight to the point of confirming Tristan’s claims, making sure to frame it as his brother getting this right not by chance but because he has the same knowledge as the confirmed professional.
The thing is, Siegfried could have easily stopped there. He backed up Tristan’s assertions and had made his point with Murray. Instead, he takes it one step further by declaring that Tristan’s knowledge is “more profound than my own”. It doesn’t add any strength to Siegfried’s position and it’s unlikely that Murray or any of the other people listening to this conversation would care about that.
But it does result in this reaction from Tristan.
And it’s clear that this was intentional. Siegfried had to have known how much that comment was going to mean to Tristan and had added it explicitly for that purpose.
After that, Tristan takes great pleasure in watching Siegfried put Murray in his place. When Murray starts to lose his temper even more, a side of Tristan you don’t often see rises up when he puts what has to be a warning hand on Murray’s shoulder. The message is obvious: a serious attack on one Farnon means dealing with both of them.
Once Murray leaves, Tristan is eager to buy his brother a drink and to acknowledge the meaning behind what Siegfried did. Of course, Siegfried had to add in that line of “forgetting more than you’ll ever learn” because the Farnon brothers are incapable of communicating with each other unless at least 20% of their conversation is composed of snark. However, Tristan is far too elated to allow snark to sour the warm feelings stirred by that gesture.
The whole moment is a sweet bit of solidarity that shows both Siegfried’s pride in his brother and Tristan’s admiration of him.
Tristan looking after the house.
In one of the episode commentaries, it’s mentioned that Hardy’s dog, Christie would usually dart away from the cameras once they were turned in Christie’s direction.
This scene really bears that out as, at first, Hardy is comfortably relaxed with Christie next to him….
….and then a few seconds later, he’s having to wrestle with that dog to get it to stay….
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I love this! Feels somehow All Creatures-esque!