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When there is a note on the chart that the dog needs to be sedated for nail trims, but the owners schedule an ordinary tech appointment for you to "please just try"...
Now you have two notes. No attempts will be made to trim nails without sedation.
I've got me a little trump bootlicker who is extremely upset that I'm not a fan of the trumpsterfire who keeps making side blogs to reblog that post and say that I'm a groomer and need to be raped. They're also harassing other people via reblogs too, so that's cute of them.
Guess I'm playing whack-a-mole/block-a-troll for a while.
Former coworker torturing me with some puppies the shelter just transferred in. Don't have still photos so you get a screenshot:
It looks exactly like how is imagine a Brussels griffon/French bulldog cross would look
I CANNOT get over the beard!!!
Mom was going through old photos and found some of our dogs that I don't have.
My beloved Aussie, a suspected catahoula mix. My ultimate heart dog. I miss him so much.
And Shelby, suspected golden/border collie mix. The sweetest, most wonderful dog you could ever ask for who also had flatulence of such potency that it could probably have been classed as a war crime.
These are all from probably around 1994-5 since Shelby doesn't have her graying muzzle yet. She had a lot more white on her chest than I remember her having.
Gave an 8 year old dog a vaccine he's had yearly for his whole life with no issues. Went to go make an estimate for this dog for a surgery and not 5 minutes later the owner poked his head into treatment to say the dog had just vomited 3 times.
I go in and stare at the dog a moment: no facial swelling, no dyspnea, no lethargy. I clean up the vomit, then check his mucous membrane color: nice and pink with a good capillary refill time. I exit the room to finish the estimate and to inform doc when she finishes with her next exam.
A minute later: he's vomited 2 more times. I go back in, still no dyspnea but he's now lethargic. Lift up a lip and now his MMs are pale and muddy colored, with a CRT greater than 2 seconds. I go interrupt doc in the other exam to come look at the dog.
We give diphenhydramine IM. I go over the surgery estimate and linger in the room to monitor. Breathing is still good 10 minutes later but he's getting more lethargic. No improvement in MMs or CRT. Doc does a reasses, not a fan of heart rate/pulses. We give a steroid injection IM and some SQ fluids. I keep watching. 5 minutes later he's perking up, MMs are getting pinker. I kept him there another 15 minutes and by that time he was back to normal.
In my 26 years as a tech i can say that this is honestly the first time I've seen an older adult dog have an anaphylactic reaction to a vaccine it's gotten numerous times before. It's also maybe the 5th time I've seen an anaphylactic reaction *at all*. And you can imagine how many tens of thousands of animals I've either given vaccines to or have been working the day they got them after 26 years, including nearly a decade in a high volume shelter.
So anyways, that was my extremely anxiety inducing afternoon.
Me to the dog the whole time:
Even though I knew the dog should be okay, I had anxiety dreams about him all night, so I called the owner around 9am today, and left a voicemail just asking for an update on how he's feeling.
We called again at noon, and this time it didn't even ring, just went straight to voicemail again. At this point I'm catastrophising "something happened to the dog after all. The owner hates us now." etc.
Thankfully they called back a few minutes ago to let us know the dog is doing absolutely fine. My coworkers just texted me while I'm on lunch to let me know.
Gave an 8 year old dog a vaccine he's had yearly for his whole life with no issues. Went to go make an estimate for this dog for a surgery and not 5 minutes later the owner poked his head into treatment to say the dog had just vomited 3 times.
I go in and stare at the dog a moment: no facial swelling, no dyspnea, no lethargy. I clean up the vomit, then check his mucous membrane color: nice and pink with a good capillary refill time. I exit the room to finish the estimate and to inform doc when she finishes with her next exam.
A minute later: he's vomited 2 more times. I go back in, still no dyspnea but he's now lethargic. Lift up a lip and now his MMs are pale and muddy colored, with a CRT greater than 2 seconds. I go interrupt doc in the other exam to come look at the dog.
We give diphenhydramine IM. I go over the surgery estimate and linger in the room to monitor. Breathing is still good 10 minutes later but he's getting more lethargic. No improvement in MMs or CRT. Doc does a reasses, not a fan of heart rate/pulses. We give a steroid injection IM and some SQ fluids. I keep watching. 5 minutes later he's perking up, MMs are getting pinker. I kept him there another 15 minutes and by that time he was back to normal.
In my 26 years as a tech i can say that this is honestly the first time I've seen an older adult dog have an anaphylactic reaction to a vaccine it's gotten numerous times before. It's also maybe the 5th time I've seen an anaphylactic reaction *at all*. And you can imagine how many tens of thousands of animals I've either given vaccines to or have been working the day they got them after 26 years, including nearly a decade in a high volume shelter.
So anyways, that was my extremely anxiety inducing afternoon.
Me to the dog the whole time:
Owner: I don't know when my dog was due for his rabies vaccine, so I want a rabies titer
Us: ... so, it's $500 for the titer and $45 for a vaccine. Are you sure you don't just want to vaccinate him? A titer also doesn't hold up in court if he bites someone.
Owner: no, I want to do the titer.
Us: ... okay, if that's what you want...
Me, trying to get to lunch:...
The client trying to exit our lot;
Only there were no walls and if they had backed up 2 more feet and turned their wheel more than 10 degrees it wouldn't have taken them 8 TRIES to get out of the parking spot!!!
I know I say it a lot, but I do want people to understand that peafowl are not cutesy, safe birds for just anyone to own, no matter what they look like when I post. They are capable of inflicting some serious damage when they want to.
For scale reference, Eris is a pretty small hen, around 7lbs. Her spurs are less than an inch long. She's normally fine to walk around, I can go pick her up off the perch, I give her smooches at night, I can handle her babies.
Last week, while I was refreshing wading bins with cool water for them, Eris decided dumping a bin was an intolerable act of aggression toward her, and she flogged me. Now, regardless of what I'm doing in the pen, I always have at least some of my attention on the birds. So while I didn't expect to be attacked, I saw it coming in time to get a knee up as she jumped.
She still GOT me, but the 1/2" puncture wound was in thigh flesh, not my face.
The thing is, this wasn't even a full power blow because she was thrown off by my interception. But it's enough that a week later I still have a roughly 3" bruise around a puncture wound she gave me through my jeans.
Yes, she did that through my jeans!!
Now imagine that same attack from a 10-12lb male, with spurs over an inch long and much sharper than a hen's, and imagine that he means it, WILL give it his full power every time he's able to, and it will be his life's mission to stalk you until you let your guard down and he can get you. It is unfortunately the reality people have to live with when they raise these birds incorrectly, and hand raise males.
THAT is why you do not snuggle male peachicks.
But this kind of situation with Eris is ALSO why I don't encourage others to get into these birds, and warn people that they are big and can do damage. Even the very friendly ones can have a bad moment where they make the wrong assumption about your actions, or they have a grouchy day or something. And the average person just doesn't need to deal with that nonsense. And the people that can handle it need to be aware that that's what they're getting into, BEFORE they get into it.
Hi, its me. The warmest creature in the world. I love you. Im the warmest creature in the world and I love you so much and I need to be in your lap right now. Yes, I know about the heat wave. That's okay though because I was already the warmest creature in the world so I don't mind. I love you and you need to let me sleep in your lap right now. I'm soooo warm and I love you sooo much. If you say no you'll be saying no to a thing that love you. Let me sleep in your lap. When I fall asleep I get warmer. I love you
you said you used to work at a "kill shelter", for lack of better wording. how often are animals actually put down to free up space?
I did not work at an open intake shelter. I worked at a very well funded limited-intake shelter.
But i am a huge supporter of open intake shelters and their staff. They do extremely vital and often heartbreaking work while getting shit on by lots of people. I will defend them and what they do to my dog breath.
I don't know often animals have to be euthanized for space. It's going to vary based on time of year, shelter size, funding, foster programs, etc.
The numbers of frenchies and doodles entering the shelters is definitely starting to increase, so all these indiscriminate breeders going for the next greatest trend are actively contributing to that happening though.
Mishmish, now Peppercorn, has a new little brother! Her owners took the little blue tabby boy kitten that my coworker found :3
They've been doing a wonderful introduction, carefully watching how both cats are acting and it's working really really well!
She thinks Kitten TV is the best thing ever.
Been going through my recent followers to remove the bots and have made a rather annoying discovery-
Quite a few pro-Trumpsterfire blogs have started following me. I'm sure some of these are bots as well but let me say this plainly.
Fuck that man. I am going to party so fucking hard when he finally kicks the bucket.
Fuck off with bigotry of any and all sorts. Learn to be better people who care about others simply because they *are* people. Except Trump. Fuck that guy.
I have got a bottle of nice cherry brandy sitting under my television in preparation for the news. I have been collecting 4-leafed clovers all summer, carefully pressing them between pieces of cardboard and stacking them on top of the bottle, ever hopeful that today will be the day.
Because fuck that guy.
I have a song for this!
When that man is dead and gone!
I was, and am, very much planning to post that song when he shuffles off.
Been going through my recent followers to remove the bots and have made a rather annoying discovery-
Quite a few pro-Trumpsterfire blogs have started following me. I'm sure some of these are bots as well but let me say this plainly.
Fuck that man. I am going to party so fucking hard when he finally kicks the bucket.
Fuck off with bigotry of any and all sorts. Learn to be better people who care about others simply because they *are* people. Except Trump. Fuck that guy.
My dog was just diagnosed with 304/404 severe linguoversion with palatal mucosal trauma and 104/204 attrition which was thoroughly explained to me, but he's five and none of his previous vets flagged this, it just came up because we switched to a new vet. Is stuff like this common? I wouldn't think that adult teeth could shift that much. I'm getting him into a vet dentist as soon as they have an opening (consults starting in August, apparently) and I'm hopeful that there's something they can do to fix it without having to remove the bottom canines entirely, but this is honestly freaking me out a bit.
Base narrow canines like that are something that develops when the adult teeth first erupt. Ruckus had base narrow canines and I was able to mostly fix this by taking his baby teeth before his adults were fully erupted. This allowed his adult teeth to shift into the unoccupied space. I can't speak as to why your previous vet did not catch this issue. As to frequency, I'd say overall it's fairly rare; overbites and underbites are much more common and can result in similar tissue trauma.
Removing the teeth isn't the only option, thankfully, but it is sometimes the best option.
Alyssum's pending euthanasia is turning out to be the hardest decision I've had to make because unlike my other pets her main issue seems to be dementia (plus her frequent/chronic pancreatitis episodes). She forgets she's hungry and outside of a few moments eating her food doesn't excite her. She wanders off frequently, will fall asleep for a while, seems to only remember her food if I walk past it. I know that similar things happen with human dementia patients as well.
It took her 30 minutes last night to finish 2/3 of a cup (she needs to eat 2 cups to maintain her weight) and 45 minutes this morning to eat another 1/2 cup.
I can't leave food out for her all the time because Ruckus would eat it, as would Tumbleweed and he's on a prescription diet.
But she's happy and still tries to play and it's harder because she doesn't have a more classic terminal condition underneath it. There's no cancer cutting things short, just a long slow decline where she can't maintain herself.
Alyssum's been having a pretty bad flare up of her chronic pancreatitis. She's not having any vomiting or diarrhea, and she's still playing with Ruckus so she's not too uncomfortable. But she won't eat without an appetite stimulant, and even then she's not eating as much as she should be.
This is one of my personal QOL cut off points.
She has until Monday to eat decently without the appetite stimulant (I will be giving it through Friday).
My girl is 15 1/2 years old. She's an old lady, and definitely slowing down. She's weaker in her hind end than she was a couple months ago, too.
Well, she's off the appetite stimulants and she's eating *maybe* half a cup of food in the evening and another half cup in the morning. She needs to eat at least 2 cups to maintain her body weight. She is definitely losing weight as her ribs and shoulder blades are becoming more prominent to the touch. I'm sure you'd be able to see them, too, but she hates being shaved and I'm not going to force her through something with no purpose.
Unless a miracle occurs tonight/tomorrow, I'll be saying goodbye on Monday morning.
