Annual Trip to the Vet - any fun stories?

[Sandi Bo]

Our annual trip to the vet is always filled with excitement. Our cat (Trouble) is 16 years old. About 2 years ago he was diagnosed with hyperthyroid. He takes pills twice daily. If the pills become too much of a hassle (ie Trouble decides not to take them any more) there are surgical alternatives.

So this trip our vet comments on how well Trouble doing, especially that we are able to continue to give him the pills, no problem.

I said sure, no problem, as long as they are wrapped in a salmon pill pocket and dipped in tuna fish.

 

[Fern Modena]

Brianna the Bichon likes her pills surrounded by cream cheese. I put it on my fingertip, and she almost chews my finger off to get to it. She's a 'Ho for cream cheese "

Bree loves the vet. When he comes in, he sits cross legged on the floor for the first five or ten minutes talking to her soothingly and playing with her. He's the only one I have ever seen do that, so we come back to him all the time now.

Fern

 

[Passepartout]

Fern, Thanks for the cream cheese tip. I'll try it tomorrow. Cherry- our 15 y.o. Cocker is failing. She has heart failure and is now on heart meds and water pills- and she isn't a good pill-taker. She hates the chicken flavor pill-pockets so I've been making hamburger patties and cutting them up into doggie size pieces to tuck her pills into. So far, so good, but after a while she gets onto my tricks and I have to change my tactic.

Oh, I remember- this was supposed to be about funny Vet stories. There's nothing funny about Vet visits here lately. Sorry.

Jim

 

[siesta]

my pitbull mix loves the vet, and loves to see the other dogs there. Any pills at home are easily taken with a dollup of peanut butter. The maltese we used to have would spit the pill out no matter what it seems. But this dog hardly chews anything you feed to her, seems to just inhale it.

My vet has always sat indian style on the floor to play with the dog before an exam, it not only establishes trust with the dog before the exam but the vet seems to enjoy it too! He/she gets plenty of kisses before its down to business.

 

[HatTrick]

Our vet showed us how to use a plastic syringe with the tip snapped off to administer pills to our cat (18 years old).

Down the hatch!

 

[hypnotiq]

My dogs love the vet, hate the scale. You ever see someone wrestle with a 220# dogs to get them on the scale and to sit still long enough to get a weight that says something other than

<insert random #s on scale>

184, oh he's lost weight.
No, his other foot isnt on the scale.
Oh.
more wresting
221.5 for 2 seconds.
Lets call that good.

lol

 

[memereDoris]

My 200+lb baby had to be lifted out of the pickup into the clinic. Lifted onto the scale (didn't fight). Then lifted onto the table. Whe he saw the vet clinic, his legs would not work.

He was an anatolian shepherd/great pyranese cross. The biggest in the litter. I really miss him. We had to put him down last winter.

We only have one dog left (and 2 horses) and have chosen not to get any more pets. It has gotten too difficult to let them go after 16 yrs (dogs) 30+ yrs (horses).

 

[ronparise]

Our cock a poos board at the vet when we are away...They are the reason we only do 3 and 4 day trips ..They love the place and seem to look forward to their days there. The vet has a three legged house cat that the play with.

next trip the one gets a $500 test to confirm what we already know: Cushings Disease...The question is can it be treated

Now if you want to see funny, its a nearly bald cock-a-poo and a three legged cat playing together

 

[heathpack]

A classmate of mine from vet school just told me this funny story that happened last week.

A lady was bringing her dog in to be neutered, when the dog (who was loose in the car) realized he was at the vet, he had a panic attack and starting bouncing around in the car. During that chaos, he lept onto the driver's floor board and pushed the lady's foot down onto the gas pedal. She accelerated down the sidewalk, over the freshly painted fire hydrant, through the shrubs, across the field, finally coming to a stop in a drainage culvert. Amazingly, no one was hurt, except for the classmate, who took off after the runaway car and promptly fell on his behind in the parking lot. It turned out that in running over the fire hydrant, the lady also tore open her gas tank and water and gasoline were spewed all over the parking lot at the clinic.

He spent the rest of his day mostly dealing with the HazMat teams about the gasoline spill. He did make time to neuter the culprit however, lol.

H

 

[IngridN]

We adopted 2 kitties last year and at their first vet appt, one of them rotated herself in the air at temp. time...it was hilarious to watch :hysterical: :hysterical: :hysterical: .

For those w/cats who become cats from hell at pill time, another alternative is transdermal meds. We have a vet pharmacy in our area and they compound and overnight the meds. Expensive but worth it to us. Our 2 sweeties before they passed last year were 19 and one was hyperthyroid and high blood pressure and the other had kidney disease and high blood pressure. I couldn't bear to fight with them to get the pills down 2x/day.

Ingrid

 

[deemac]

Brianna the Bichon likes her pills surrounded by cream cheese. I put it on my fingertip, and she almost chews my finger off to get to it. She's a 'Ho for cream cheese "

Bree loves the vet. When he comes in, he sits cross legged on the floor for the first five or ten minutes talking to her soothingly and playing with her. He's the only one I have ever seen do that, so we come back to him all the time now.

Fern

Fern, Our vet does the same for our PUG -- also, the assistants do it, too. And, I thought we were special, when we first started going to this place.:rofl:

Because I am afraid of all dogs (except mine), I used to sit on the cat side of the vet's office. Moved to RVA, and there is NO separation of cats and dogs -- so, DH has to take my sweetie-pie Pug for office visits. (This Pug was a gift from our kids when we retired, because OLD folk need a pet. I would have not gotten a pet -- NOW I Love him to death)

 

[Ridewithme38]

(This Pug was a gift from our kids when we retired, because OLD folk need a pet. I would have not gotten a pet -- NOW I Love him to death)

Dog's have been shown to improve the mood and overall health of seniors when they are part of a family, really it is amazing if you look at the studies how much good a dog in a household does....I'm pretty sure its not the same with Cat's...Cat's slowly try to suffocate the people around in their sleep and send evil thought to everyone when they are around

 

[deemac]

Dog's have been shown to improve the mood and overall health of seniors when they are part of a family, really it is amazing if you look at the studies how much good a dog in a household does....I'm pretty sure its not the same with Cat's...Cat's slowly try to suffocate the people around in their sleep and send evil thought to everyone when they are around

Ridewithme38,

You got it right -- this is exactly their rationale (it will improve your health. I initially fought it, because of my fear of dogs). And, I thought it was going to be such a bother, as we traveled to SXM for 3 weeks at a time.

 

[ronparise]

Dog's have been shown to improve the mood and overall health of seniors when they are part of a family, really it is amazing if you look at the studies how much good a dog in a household does....

Can you imagine what a {jerk} I'd be if not for the influence of the dogs

 

[pjrose]

Our two senior kitties were patients at the Cornell Vet School. One, an absolute sweetheart, had a rare something-or-other that intrigued one of the veterinarians so much of the expense was written off as research into rare something-or-others. When the kitties stayed long enough to go in one of the back rooms, they got paper collars, much like the bracelets we get at the hospital.

The sweet kitty always got a white collar. The other one, who could be quite the hissy little thing when she wasn't happy, always got a red collar. Apparently red was WARNING.