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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie  Thanks, everybody, great advice. Someone on my blog suggested I visit the vet's Web site and see if there was any information on the doctors, and voila! There were mini bios on all of them. The guy who was going to do the procedure is actually the least experienced. He graduated in 2008 and just arrived here in July, so I'm guessing it's his first job.  Now the question: Is he cautious because he's received the latest in medical training, or is he cautious from inexperience? |
Can I share a story, lol, like you need any more advise
When I first got adopted by AprilLove, I decided to change to a new vet for her because my older two went to a vet in a city farther away, due to me moving I wanted a closer place \. But I always stuck with them and still do because they are good and still take my older girl there because she is comfy with them. Well I wanted someone close by in case of emergency. so there is a multivet practice about 3 minutes from me, and I looked at all their bios' online before I choose the first guy, he had LOTS of experience, older fellow and I thought great this is best. Well, I took AprilLove there for her first rabies shot, and he pulled out a 28 gauge needle (BIG!!!) and I asked why not the 31 guage (I know these things because my older boy was diabetic and had to give his insulin shots) and he said oh that is the smallest they use, yada yada, and she proceeded to SCREAM when he gave her the shot and I about broke down in tears, had to fight them back, I grabbed her and wanted to rip his head off, lol. ]
He had no empathy at all! and said she was being a drama queen, gosh I really hurt for her when this happened and wanted to take her pain away, she was less than 2 lbs at the time
Any ways, I choose a woman after that who has been doing it half the time he has, but she has Shi-Tzus and so I figured she knew small dogs, and low and behold, next vet visit for vaccines, they used a 31 gauge needle and said that was standard practice and she and Nappy and Rozi have never had any pain with shots
What is the moral of my story here> lol, I guess it is do your research, and go with your gut on how you feel about them. Experience in years of practice does NOT mean they are always the best choice