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08-09-2005, 07:18 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida
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| mistakes vets make I've heard that vets can make mistakes that results in the death of our little Yorkies. What kinds of mistakes? Any advice? I've heard this can happen when you spay/neuter them. Any precautions. Especially vulnerable are the smaller ones, right?
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08-09-2005, 07:22 PM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: California
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| mistakes can include using the wrong kind of gas, using TOO MUCH gas, using too much pain meds........ with little dogs you really have to be careful becausse it is easy to overdose them, their weight really needs to be taken into acount. |
08-09-2005, 07:28 PM | #3 | |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Rochester NY
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| Vet mistakes or misinformed Quote:
I have a cat named Murphy and my vet did not inform me about the dangers of injection sight sarcoma in felines I was really pissed off because my two indoor cats had received vacines that werent necessary my cat or shall I say kitten was 9 weeks old and had to have two tumors removed because of this!!!. It is also seen in dogs but is much more rare. Also today my sons girlfriend showed me a lump on her 2.5 pound chi that received a rabies shot last thursday and it brought me back to this episode with Murphy. I realize that they cant tell you everything!! But I sure have learned lots from this!!! Jack and Mandy's Mom | |
08-09-2005, 08:10 PM | #4 |
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| I don't like to bash vets as a group because a lot of them are great but there are some who are really money making machines and their bread and butter are vaccinations. There is a controversy right now about the over vaccination of our pets and a lot of the more conscientious vets are not giving some of the vaccines that just aren't necessary, those where the risks outweigh the benefits and they are giving them less frequently. The truth is that vaccines can actually make your pet very sick and can cause everything from allergies and hair loss to epilepsy and cancer. Please research this issue for the sake of your pets and make the decision that is right for you about vaccines. Only the rabies is required by law in some states and the rest are optional. Vets are not under the same obligationh as human doctors to advise us of the side effects and other issues with certain medications and procedures. They can also perform procedures on our pets without our consent and there is very little we can do. Because our pets are considered "mere property" under the law if something were to happen and the animal dies at the hands of a negligent vet or his staff about all you can ecoup is the price of the dog so there is not as much pressure on a vet to diagnose and treat cautiously as there is a human medical doctor. A lot of vets like to cut costs as well to leave more profit for them or sometimes they are understaffed and they try to perform surgery by themselves when you really need two people so someone is monioring the dog's vitals at all times. Also in the area of equipment and cleanliness I would ask for a tour of the office and the operating room to see the newness of the facility and whether the equipment is state of the art. We have to be willing to pay more for the best where our babies are concerned and that means a vet who cares enough to pay hs staff well and buy the best equipment. Our babies deserve nothing less imo. |
08-09-2005, 09:24 PM | #5 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Missouri
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| The vets office I used for 26 year..mishandled my dogs pregnany. I lost 3 of the 4 pups that were born..and the use of the female from her being spayed. Then the vet killed the last pup by tube feeding him. Had my lawyer contact them..they had their lawyer to contact mine and said they were not responsible... ..so I guess I will have to take them to small claim court...I am now using the original Vet that I started with 27 years ago, who had now started praticing again after he stopped praticing because of a scare with cancer. He sold the clinic to the vet that killed my pup about 4 years ago. I told him I wish he would never have sold the clinic. Because now I have to drive 27 miles to go see him as where before, I was only drive 1 mile. ..but thats what I'll do because I really like him. He seem to care more for the animal then just the money. He gave my 6 month old her first rabies shot and she will not need another one for 3 years. |
08-09-2005, 10:34 PM | #6 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Banning, CA
Posts: 333
| When Lacy was 6 months old I had her spayed by a local vet. At the office there are about 4 different vets there. The vet that did the spay/neuter surgeries was a recent vet school graduate. Lacy came home a little groggy and was out of it for the rest of the night because of the anesthesia. The next day she was fine. I didn't need to take her back because the stitches were internal and the vet said that they would dissolve. So when she was about 7 months old I was having problems with her groomer and had to find another one. Thank God for her!! She is such a wonderful woman! Anyway, when I dropped Lacy off to her for the first time, it had only been a little less than a month after her spay, so I told her to be careful and watch out for her incision. So she checked it to make sure that it was healed, so that she could bathe her, then she told me that Lacy had a hernia. She really knows what she's talking about, cuz she has several yorkies herself, and she's been breeding for 13 yrs. I wasn't really concerned at first cuz at that time I didn't know that she knew so much about yorkies. But I decided to make an appt. with the vet that did her surgery ASAP. I took her in and he said that everything was fine. So the next week when I took Lacy for a bath she asked if I had taken her to the vet. I told her yes and that he said that she was fine. I handed Lacy to her and she felt her incision again, and said to me that she definetly had a hernia. she told me to take her to the vet that she takes her dogs to and I did the next day. The vet had to give Lacy surgery that same day. I was in total shock. I couldn't believe that the other vet had told me she was fine when the hernia inside my baby was the size of a quarter. With the help of the other vet who had taken photos of the surgery and wrote a report, I filed a complaint against the vet. Recently I received a letter from the Veterinary Medical Board that said that they investigated and found no significant evidence that the vet had did anything wrong. I was devastated. I don't want this to happen to anybody else's dogs. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to let you know what happened to my baby and me. We had one hell of an experience with that vet. Just be careful, that's all I can really say. |
08-10-2005, 04:45 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada
Posts: 2,999
| Believe it or not , my friend Carlos had a Yorkie that have had heart problems . His vet didn't exam him and told him to give baby syrup and everything will be well . It didn't . The same day , Carlos went to another vet clinic and they found the heart problems , Paco was placed on heavy medications . |
08-10-2005, 05:56 AM | #8 |
Charmed by Sophie & Daisy Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: North Alabama
Posts: 593
| My vet didn't know how to properly perform a bile acid test. She simply drew blood and tested it. The proper way is to fast the pup, draw blood, feed it, and draw more blood 2 hours later to compare the levels in the blood before and after eating. It pays to educate ourselves. |
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