Curious how many have had what they would consider bad experiences with vets?
I loved my old vet in Ontario, but recently moved to Northern Alberta and just had a fairly unpleasant experience with a vet I had heard so many good things about.
I can be assertive, but I'm mostly a laid back, mellow, quiet, friendly person and because I had heard so many good things about this vet I didn't think to explain guidelines for handling.
Odie, who we adopted over the summer has been a farm dog his entire life and has no vaccines that we're aware of so after a lot of work around strangers to make them positive we booked the appointment. I did explain he is a farm dog with little exposure to strangers and that we would be carrying him in as he currently shuts down with a leash on.
The vet was nice in many of the interactions so I felt pretty at ease, until it came to weighing him. She didn't even give us a chance to get him on, she literally just grabbed his collar and dragged him across the floor and onto the scale...
My heart dropped, luckily Odie is awesome and didn't nip, but it's not the point, it totally ruins a lot of the work we've been putting in with strangers and collar handling and I just feel really upset both with myself and also with the clinic.
I didn't even think to set boundaries ahead of time at the beginning of the session.
Just wondering how others go about establishing rules with their vet, especially a new vet in matters that are important to you?
I loved my old vet in Ontario, but recently moved to Northern Alberta and just had a fairly unpleasant experience with a vet I had heard so many good things about.
I can be assertive, but I'm mostly a laid back, mellow, quiet, friendly person and because I had heard so many good things about this vet I didn't think to explain guidelines for handling.
Odie, who we adopted over the summer has been a farm dog his entire life and has no vaccines that we're aware of so after a lot of work around strangers to make them positive we booked the appointment. I did explain he is a farm dog with little exposure to strangers and that we would be carrying him in as he currently shuts down with a leash on.
The vet was nice in many of the interactions so I felt pretty at ease, until it came to weighing him. She didn't even give us a chance to get him on, she literally just grabbed his collar and dragged him across the floor and onto the scale...
My heart dropped, luckily Odie is awesome and didn't nip, but it's not the point, it totally ruins a lot of the work we've been putting in with strangers and collar handling and I just feel really upset both with myself and also with the clinic.
I didn't even think to set boundaries ahead of time at the beginning of the session.
Just wondering how others go about establishing rules with their vet, especially a new vet in matters that are important to you?