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08-08-2008, 10:41 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | Some people don't deserve a dog.... Last night Reggie had a vet appointment...there is a golden retriever there. She is older and HUGE...weighs 143...she had chewed herself to pieces...to the BONE on one leg. I saw it. Apparently first time at this office...asking background questions. Did you bring shot records? Guy - huh no. Girl - do you know when she got at least her last rabies? Guy - uh no...she was seen at Banfield one time. Is she on any flea preventative. Guy...ah...yeah. Girl - what? Guy...hmmm, I don't know but something...so the conversation continues like this. I think he doesn't want them to know...the answers to these questions is really no or none. It's pretty obvious the dog gets no care. He gets taken back in a room...then me and Reggie in another...the back door of the examing room is open and goes into a hallway...so I can hear the vet talking to this guy...what they need to do for her leg...test her for heart worms...etc. Then I hear the guy ask...how much is this all gonna cost? Vet...I'll go get you an estimate. So I hear that amount...120 bucks. Guy is okay with that. She's telling him...the dog is like this because she isn't on flea preventative...he only agrees to buy her ONE month of preventative. He says he gives her flea baths...which I doubt...the vet tells him...they are really ineffective...might kill what's on her...but doesn't deter the new ones. I hear her talk about the dog's weight...asking what kind of food she gets. Guy...I don't know but we just got a big bag. Now they are very considerate here...not to insult someone....so she says...well, when you get home...check the brand and please put her on something like purina...there are alot of foods out there that aren't really good foods for them. Purina would be good and cost about the same as some of the others. I am certain that vet felt frustrated...and knew from looking at that dog...no one really cared about her. She's probably thrown out back and never thought of. I really think the only reason she was taken to the vet yesterday....that hole in her leg. I really think he'd have put her down...if the bill had been too high, (or opted out of treatments)..perhaps the intent was to put her down and he couldn't. I didn't think 120 was bad...she got a rabies shot, her wound cleaned and dressed, medicine for that, medicine for her infected skin, tried to get a stool sample, and a month of flea preventative. Anyway...that's the jist....but I sat there thinking....YOU SHOULDN'T OWN A DOG....if you don't want to care for one...you shouldn't own one.
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08-08-2008, 10:47 AM | #2 |
Mimi & Gabby too! Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Vineland, NJ
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| I agree with you. Poor baby |
08-08-2008, 10:52 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada
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| I agree 100 % with you . |
08-08-2008, 10:55 AM | #4 |
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| that guy is an idiot |
08-08-2008, 11:01 AM | #5 |
I love my lil wolf! ;) Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Washington
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| awww poor doggie .. sounds painful |
08-08-2008, 11:04 AM | #6 |
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| That's just so sad. |
08-08-2008, 11:11 AM | #7 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
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| oh man!!! i tell ya,, why why why!!! this sickens me
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08-08-2008, 11:12 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S. W. Suburbs of Chicago, IL
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| So very,very sad. Labs are wonderful family dogs. Our Abby was just a kind soul who watched out for the kids as they grew up. I can't imagine treating something that give unconditional love so horribly.
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08-08-2008, 11:15 AM | #9 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Sad and your right they dont deserve a dog. Poor thing!
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08-08-2008, 11:16 AM | #10 |
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| Unfortunately, This is the way some people treat their dogs. They do not care . I have seen dogs placed in side yards and fed only leftover foods. They have many of them, and then several little dogs inside. They do not ever take them in to a vet, or do they bother to fix any of them... The dogs have babies.... Some people just do not care! They look at the dogs as "animals' and not pets..
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08-08-2008, 11:17 AM | #11 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | I know vets get a lot of bad press here, about being "greedy," but I honestly don't know how they do it. It would be so hard to see dogs kept in that kind of condition. I wonder why they finally sought treatment, was the "smell" from the wound bothering them?
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08-08-2008, 11:43 AM | #12 | |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | Quote:
He certainly didn't want to purchase more than one application of flea preventative...
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08-08-2008, 11:54 AM | #13 |
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| People like that do not deserve to own a dog or another other pet.
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08-08-2008, 12:18 PM | #14 |
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| Being a Nurse, I wish they had the same policy with animals as we do with humans. . .if we suspect neglect. . . .report it immediately!!! This should be reported, it's blatent abuse. . .poor baby and labs are the sweetest dogs!!!! I feel so bad for him: and it makes me so mad, why have him????( |
08-08-2008, 12:25 PM | #15 |
YT 2000 Club Member | It's sad to hear stories like this.I agree that some people are not fit to have animals..or children...with the lack of care they tend to not give them One thing thou..even though there was a lack of care to this poor baby, at least he felt some compassion to have her looked at for her injury, maybe this will open him up on better treatment for his pet. I hope so at least. Some people do not view having a dog as anything special to them it is just an animal, nothing special at all
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