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Post by michele5611 on Jun 19, 2013 8:20:01 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Jun 19, 2013 10:00:18 GMT -5
Good article. I dread the day that my vet decides she's had enough and closes her practice. She has two exam rooms, and rarely is there ever more than one other patient waiting in the reception area. Perfect for me and my dogs.
Even so, spit sometimes happens. I was waiting with Rocky once, when the exam room opens and out walks a laborador with a four year old boy holding his leash. I like to died. They headed straight for us. I grabbed Rocky's collar and blurted out some unintelligible gibberish, because, well, there are no words. The father finally grabbed the leash and just gave me the most incredible look. I just said, "the boy is too young to hold the leash in this room." That went over really well!
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Post by michele5611 on Jun 19, 2013 10:06:48 GMT -5
Yeah sure that went over very well with the father Dave...LOL
My vet has a list of rules posted...no flexi leashes, etc. but inevitably every time we go there are always people who are just freakin clueless! Usually Lab owners...hee hee no offense Lab owners.
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Post by maryellen on Jun 19, 2013 10:33:44 GMT -5
some vets out here have 2 entrances and separate rooms - one for cats and one for dogs.. that is good. but otherwise its chaos in the waiting room.. i have rufus sit in the chair next to me so that no other dogs go up to him (it works good its like they dont see him sitting up in a chair lol). i am constantly policing people coming in/out to make sure their dogs dont come near us,and i always advise that rufus is not good with other dogs and at least most people respect that.
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Post by suziriot on Jun 19, 2013 11:56:59 GMT -5
I love my vet clinic, but their set-up is a total cluster. Most of the clients are completely oblivious and the front office staff doesn't even try to control things. If I can't get into a room immediately, then we just wait outside or in the car.
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Post by melonie on Jun 19, 2013 12:49:14 GMT -5
I usually pop my head in the door to see if any other animals are waiting. If so I tell the receptionist that we're waiting outside. Luckily that rarely happens.
The vet in Norfolk though is busy, and to get in and out you pass the receptionist desk, where there is usually a waiting human with animal waiting to pay.
It's amazing how people have no qualms about sitting in a chair struggling to keep their dog by their side. Even more amazing that the vet office ignores these instances.
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Post by michele5611 on Jun 19, 2013 13:22:40 GMT -5
I guess I am pretty lucky. My vets office is configured fairly well so we are usually ok. The hardest part is usually going in there if there are a lot of dogs.
Sometimes I just carry Harley in and we go take our usual seat away from the action. Of course we do encounter the clueless does your dog mind if my strange, obnoxious dog, tries to bum rush your dog while I am on the phone and my dog is pulling my arm out of the socket owner!!!
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Post by adoptapitbull on Jun 19, 2013 15:34:14 GMT -5
Thankfully when I take Cappy for his donations, they are waiting inside for me and usher him right into the room. He's not DA with strange dogs, but he is RUDE! He'll get up in every dog's business if it's up to him. And if there's someone in there wanting to start something, I just pick him up and carry him like an infant. Works well for him!
My others are either not rude like him, or just don't give a crap about the other dogs, thank goodness.
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Post by megan on Jun 19, 2013 16:21:43 GMT -5
This is why I adore my vet. Not only is she fabulous, medically and diagnostically, she manages the waiting room and people coming in and out so we don't have issues, or can at least minimize issues. She has two exam rooms and will put me in a room with the dogs while someone else exits. Her office is right next to the exam rooms, and I have no doubt she would put me in there for a few moments if it was necessary to shuffle dogs in and out. She used to work at a really hectic clinic and I always popped my head in to tell them I was there, and then she would stick her head out the side emergency door to let us in when it was our turn so we didn't have to walk through a chaotic waiting room.
Sadly, though, some vets just don't get it. I was fostering a dog once that was bad with little kids (so we were told). I hadn't tested the theory and didn't plan on gauging her reaction to children until she was more comfortable, and I certainly didn't plan on doing it at the vet's office. After our exam I heard small children wrestling and screaming in the waiting room, and I asked if we could exit through another door. The door was through the vet's office and I understood their concern for privacy, but I explained that the dog I had was not good with children, and I didn't want to set her up to fail by walking through a waiting room full of them screaming and playing. I actually had to FIGHT to get them to let me out another door, and the reason they wound up allowing it was because I asked them if their insurance would pay for reconstructive surgery when a child was mauled in their office because they refused to let me bring the dog out a different door. It was ridiculous that it had to come to that..... Turns out the dog wasn't terrible with kids when we tested her much later, but I wasn't willing to find out in an already stressful environment.
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Post by RealPitBull on Jun 20, 2013 7:23:37 GMT -5
My vet has two entrances, a front one and a back exit that mostly no one uses. I would usually wait in the car with Luca and wait for a tech to come get us when it was time, and we'd go in the back entrance. Just a lot less stressful than worrying about lose dogs in the office.
I thought that blog was great! (All of her blog posts usually are!)
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Post by seamonkey on Jul 3, 2013 18:02:14 GMT -5
My vet has a large waiting room and every time I go, everyone has their dog on a short leash. The only time a fight nearly broke out was ME.
George, my little dog, attacked Matilda one morning, so I took him in for tests since he normally doesn't do that before I called his behaviorist (he had a bad ear infection). I was sitting there with George, who is small and cute and this woman comes in with a small poofy thing and immediately starts telling me the vet should not even examine the rottie who was calmly sitting next to his owner and not making a peep, she should just immediately euthanize the dog because those dogs are killers.
She starts going on about how cute George is and what kind of dog he is and I inform her he's a mutt who is here today because he attacked my "killer pit bull"
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