Day 1 of working at the vet's office: No new pets. My dog thinks I'm leaving him for other animals. Overall, not bad.
Intake, reception, and handling/transfers. Nothing gross or anything like that. Only thing that's scary is dealing with neurotic pet owners.
Gross. I drew the boundary today - I am not a tech, I will not express anal glands. I don't even do that for my dog, I pay someone else.
I did a co-op in high school at a vet's office. On my first day, those fucking people made me hold a dog down as they put it to sleep. Sadistic assholes.
ohhh no. The VET vet is on the second floor. I'm downstairs. I don't see the vet except when they take the elevator, and technically I only deal with intake for daycare and boarding.
Just don't dress up your fucking dogs in "people clothes". You have no idea what they do to dogs at the pound when they walk into the pen decked in Kenneth Cole.
Cool part is that after a month working there, he can do the daycare intake, and then I can bring him to work with me. And vet services are free. So....this doesn't suck.
Unpopular Opinion Alert - now living in my building in semi-downtown Chicago, I have officially taken the stance that I hate dog owners. Not dogs, but their owners. I can't even get into the 50-60+ crowd that have dog strollers for their perfectly able dogs, but the rest of these assholes need to quit. Along Lake Michigan there are quite a few high rises in my area, and a lot of them have built in "Pee & Poo" areas and dog parks that provide bags with waste bins. Yet, I'm walking down my sidewalk and there are constantly piles of dog shit in the goddamn sidewalk. Now I used to have a dog, and she was trained not to shit in the middle of the goddamn sidewalk. She'd pee everywhere, but whatever, rain washes that away. Dog shit is forever. Also, these fuckers think they're above the goddamn law. Around some of these buildings there are gorgeous large planters with manicured grass and flowers planted in them. They also have quite a few signs that say "No dogs allowed on the grass." The dogs can't fucking read that, but the shitty fucking narcissistic owners can, letting their dogs piss and shit all over them. In some of these areas the "Pee & Poo" dog areas are 10 fucking feet away. It drives me fucking insane the nerve of these goddamn people. And in my own goddamn building dog owners are such goddamn assholes they had to print out a memo and send it to the 1000 something residents. One of the things they mentioned was "When getting on an elevator, if there are people already on, please ask if it is okay if you bring your dog on." Has this fucking happened once? No. These assholes have no idea if anyone on the elevator has dog allergies or is just afraid of dogs. They just walk fucking on. One time this dude just let his fucking dog put its snout halfway into this woman's grocery bag. He could have pulled back on the leash and kept the dog in the corner but this dude made no goddamn effort. The woman wasn't smiling at the dog or making any gesture to know that she likes dogs or wanted that to happen. I have started just telling people who try to get on with dogs that I'm allergic unless they're senior citizens. Fuck them for not following the rules or having any goddamn courtesy. Just because you love you dog doesn't mean everyone loves your dog.
Oh. Other dog owners. Yeah. There's a reason I stopped taking Duke to dog parks. Fucking asshole owners. And don't get me started on people who refuse REFUSE refuuuuse to spay or neuter their pet. I will never ever hurt an animal on purpose - but the little yapdogs who charge my dog and then their owners get pissy at me? I'll boot a motherfucker. Edit: I hope a fucking rock drops out of the sky on Jesse Ventura's fucking piece of shit head.
Bassets are my favourite breed, but NEVER live next door to a hound. All day, all night they stand outside and shriek at nothing. Beagles bark louder than Gabriel's horn.
All through college I lived next door to an older woman with two little yappy bastards. Whenever they were outside when I walked home they would charge me, sometimes biting into my jeans if I didn't dodge them. I never kicked them because the neighbor on the other side did that my first week and she called the cops and wouldn't let them leave until they wrote him a citation. I used to leave ham slices out in the yard at night in an attempt to attract coyotes.
Calling the cops for that here would get the owner slapped for failing to control a dangerous dog. Multiple instances and they'd take the dogs to be destroyed. I feel really bad about reporting out of control dogs when the problem is just a shithead owner and all they need is rehoming.
That would make too much sense. Around here, the biggest problem with the little yappy dogs is that no one takes them seriously, so they never get their behavior corrected. If a pit bull bites someone it gets put down, but if a Yorkie does it you get "Awwwwww... isn't that adorable?" We have the same problem with some people's children.