Well, well, well what a day, what a day. The day started out horrible. 9 AM, first client of the day accuses me (us --Banfield) of trying to kill his dog! Seriously are you kidding me??? I mean you can accuse me of several things, but trying to harm an animal is just plain bullshit. Excuse me, but this subject is touchy for me because I love my job. I don't work with animals because I need the money, I do it for the love of the job. So I have to go into the room with this idiot, and listen to his bullshit for about 30 minutes. This 30 minutes consists of me being accused of being neglectful, heartless, dumb, and an assortment of other things. Long story short this client brought his pet in for routine vaccines, then takes her home and leaves her in the backyard (unguarded) while he takes a two hour nap. He wakes to see her face is swollen, hives all down her back, and "feverish ears". So being the genius that he is, he turns to google to do some "research." Are you kidding me??? Perhaps I'm being a little presumptuous, but wouldn't it make a hell of a lot more sense to contact a doctor??? During his online "research" he was informed by Dr. Google that his dog received too many vaccines (which I should have known better than to give), Dr. Google also told him that most dogs don't show signs of vaccine allergies until their around 2 years old (which isn't correct); so I should have been more thoughtful before giving so many vaccinations. Then of course Dr. Google told this moron that death is common within the first 30 minutes to an hour when a vaccine reaction is taking place. Lastly Dr. Google told him to give Benedryl --however Dr. Google neglected to give this dumbass any medication dosage information. So gives a 40 lb dog a 12.5 mg Benedryl, yeah a lot of good that'll do wise ass.
After patiently listening to him rant and rave, I went over the clinical signs of a real vaccine reaction. Like for example that it is very uncommon that a dog over a year in age will have a reaction 5 hours after being vaccinated. Perhaps his dog was stung or bitten by some sort of insect, since he admitted that he just left her outside for hours and didn't know the exact cause of the facial swelling. Of course that only pissed him off more, because I was 'trying' to make him 'look neglectful'. Whatever man, whatever! It's called trying to inform your ignorant ass! What can you do when someone refuses to learn? Like talking to a brick wall. Apparently under dosing his dog worked wonders, because today she showed no signs of a vaccine reaction. Thank you Dr. Google, really thank you!
Before leaving this ray of sun shine gives me his history with Veterinarians. Basically he informs me that all the ones he's seen are complete idiots and all of his dogs have died due to their neglect. Of course he couldn't possibly be part of the problem, silly me to think such a thing! I really wanted to suggest that he start taking all of his pets to Dr. Google for further treatment, but I resisted the urge.
Here's a toast to JACK ASS DAY! Hooray!
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