Tales from Treatment

Slices of life showing the realities of being a Licensed Vet Tech. I often post unaltered images of injured and ill animals. These are tagged as either animal illness or animal injury. My job is not all happy kittens and puppies. Welcome to the reality.

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Absolutely don't tell us anything you don't want to, but did Alyssum end up feeling better? I've been thinking of her and you. 💜

Unfortunately she is, uh, feeling better along the same lines as "all bleeding stops eventually"...

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Excuse me. I think your oatmeal vacuum is broken. It’s running in weird patterns!!

It's a very complicated program that calculates the least efficient path of consumption possible

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Every time I read stupid misinformation about dogs and grains the desire to chuck a handful of oatmeal, Ruckus' all time favorite scavenging snack, around my living room becomes irresistible.

[l3irdl3rain]

“Oh there’s a coin in my scrub pocket. Huh how’d that get there” and then I pull out a piece of poop with my bare hand

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Ah yes, this is a real and common danger in vet med.

At least you found it before putting it in the washing machine

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Me: the morning has been hell. I'm in hell.

Universe: would you like to start of your afternoon with a new client who has a 7 year old Rottweiler?

Me: fuuuuuu-

Rottie: *is the nicest fucking dog on the planet and an absolute sweetheart*

Me: -uuuck YEAH!!!!

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Last appointment of the day: dog with hair loss

Suspiciously round areas of hair loss.

3 weeks after boarding.

Please don't be-

Nope. I'm still in hell.

Dof fucking lit up like a Christmas tree under the wood's lamp. The fungus is among us and I will be taking a long hot shower when I get home.

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Me to owner: is she on any medications, vitamins, or supplements? Is she on any flea and tick preventative?

Owner to me: No. Nothing.

Vet to owner: since she's going to the groomer soon, is she up to date on her flea and tick meds?

Owner to vet: oh yeah, absolutely!

Me, *thinking*: oh you are such a liar right now

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Me: the morning has been hell. I'm in hell.

Universe: would you like to start of your afternoon with a new client who has a 7 year old Rottweiler?

Me: fuuuuuu-

Rottie: *is the nicest fucking dog on the planet and an absolute sweetheart*

Me: -uuuck YEAH!!!!

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Might soon be taking on a coworker's leopard gecko that is having issues with her eyes, which from what I've been learning can be an early sign of vitamin a deficiency. Coworker is going to try artificial tears and supplementing but if that doesn't work I'll be taking her home. She's 5 years, has been apparently healthy up to this point. First point in my care would be vet exam, bloodwork, and a fecal test for crypto.

The last 2 pictures are as far as her eyes will open at this time, and that is with proparacaine

[wheremyscalesslither]

The look on this smol friend’s face 😂

[wheremyscalesslither]

[where-the-tumbleweed-plays]

He has been...

CONTAI-

Oh shit

OH NO

Fuck. Now I'm the one contained.

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New client: You can't keep my deposit! I never canceled my appointment!

Us: ma'am, you didn't show up to your appointment at all? It was at 10:30 and it's now 11.

New client: Exactly! I didn't come, that's not the same as a same day cancelation!

Us: well, firstly it's a same-day cancelation OR no-show fee and secondly, not showing up IS basically the same as canceling???

New client: it isn't! Refund me right now!

Us: No.

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Hey.... you ever pulled a urinary cath from a female dog and have it come out in a knot..... all of us were trying to figure out how it even happened.............

Well, first I'm cringing with my legs crossed, second I know that this is something that *can* happen with a red rubber cath and has always caused me anxiety, and third I've actually never seen a female dog get a u-cath.

[3liza]

what a party trick, though

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Bad trick! Do NOT!!!

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Hey.... you ever pulled a urinary cath from a female dog and have it come out in a knot..... all of us were trying to figure out how it even happened.............

Well, first I'm cringing with my legs crossed, second I know that this is something that *can* happen with a red rubber cath and has always caused me anxiety, and third I've actually never seen a female dog get a u-cath.

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*sobbing* the-they lo-love each oootheeerrrrr

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I do generally try very hard to not be judgmental of owners when they make certain choices. Finances are tough, people have traumas, etc etc. And I at least try extra hard to not be judgemental directly to the owner.

But Friday we're doing a repair on a huge umbilical hernia on a cat: it's big enough to stick your finger inside the cat and her intestines keep falling through it. But we're not spaying her. Even though we're already going to be in the abdomen.

Because the owner wants to breed her. Even after we told him this is a highly heritable condition. Nope. He wants to breed his blue point domestic shorthair that he found under a bush as a kitten.

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Hola! Hope it's ok to ask, recently I got told that there is no way to socialize kittens from a feral mom, that they will be irreversibly feral since birth. How true is that?

If your look through my "foster kitten" tag, 99% of those were born to feral moms. 99% of kittens you find up for adoption in any shelter are going to be from feral moms.

A very, VERY small sampling of kittens from feral moms. Hell, my own Sundew was a 3 week old feral kitten when I got him.

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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.