My Beastly Creatures

A lady and the demon baby Tymeless Lady Luck 1/09/08-3/24/20 Stroke of Midnight 8/02/20 ventus 6/23/21

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Update photos! Ventus got his rally intermediate titles. For hisb3rd birthday we went to the sunshine cluster show and got meet some mudi!

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Almost took 3 years but he's officially soundtrack's Wayward wish 🙄 now on to work towards our rally legs finally

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Waiting his turn to herd sheep

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A good size comparison between the two of them

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He's so handsome 🥰

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This is a truly fantastic article about the difficulties facing vet medicine right now.

The struggles facing animal care aren’t as simple as the oft-cited one of more pets, fewer staff. Experts say several factors are at play, with some a long time coming and others caused or exacerbated by the pandemic.

I'd also like to point out, along with the verbal abuse, high turnover rates for vet techs, and high debt for veterinarians, etc mentioned, there is an extremely high suicide rate for vets AND vet techs (techs are often not mentioned in these statistics and the below mentioned 2019 study was the first to even consider suicide rates in techs).

The study found that female veterinarians were 2.4 times as likely as the general U.S. population to commit suicide and that the rate for male veterinary technicians was five times higher. Among male veterinarians and female veterinary technicians, the rates were 1.6 and 2.3 times greater, respectively. This is the first study that also considered suicide rates among veterinary technicians.

Washington is in a particularly bad spot as far as veterinary medicine goes, but even before COVID, veterinary medicine staff have been struggling for a long time to survive and make ends meet. There's little people outside of vet med can do, but do what you can.

Be kind, be patient, and try to plan ahead. Make appointments early for wellness/vaccines and make appointments when problems first come up rather than a week into them when it can no longer wait. It's much easier to cancel an appointment than figure out how to work one in on a Saturday when that schedule was full 2 weeks ago.

We know you're stressed about your babies and finances and everything else that comes up with emergency situations, but I promise, those of us in vet med are trying our absolute best. ❤️

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Lol @ neither me or my dog being able to take directions 😅

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pariah type dogs are so shaped

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the fact that these are all random bred street dogs from completely different parts of the world and not members of the same breed makes me want to walk into the ocean

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Can't forget about my main girl who still holds the softest part in my heart surprisingly lol

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He currently has two classes he attends a week. A foundation agility class (which is by far my favorite) and an akc puppy class

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He's getting so big 😭😭😭😭 also he's boarding for the first ever with my demon baby and it's the first time I've been away from him and I have big feelings about it

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They are obsessed with each other 🤣

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There are four puppies at my resort that are owned by workers including Ventus. This golden is the oldest of the bunch at 6 months

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I was recently given these photos of my grandparents’ GSD, Prince. Taken around 1949-1951.

70 years later my grandmother can sharply recall endless stories involving him, and tears up when she says how she misses him. Dogs, man!

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Gang gang

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Look at this handsome man ❤️

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Other than trying to charge him to initiate play they get along pretty well