I spoke to A retired farm veterinarian I know and also to a good friend who has bred and worked gun dogs all his life last night. both of them said that I had to take My dog to the vets urgently because she kept on collapsing and was whining in pain.
She's a Bavarian mountain hound Labrador cross and she's only 2 years old.
It wasn't good. I had to take her to an emergency out if hours vets near Cambridge , unfortunately the vet working there was an animal rites extremist with a side undercut hair cut and was a serious problem case.
When she came into the waiting room she gave me a look of total disgust before I'd even spoken to her and said " is that a hunting dog ?" Obviously i had to say she was and she basically treated my dog and me with total and blatant disrespect and discrimination from the there on. I never once responded to any of her leading questions or nasty comments and remained polite and friendly despite her horrible remarks. Some of the things that this unpleasant woman said actually left me shocked , for example, she asked me if my dog had been fed her normal meal and I said she had, she then said " you don't have to kill everything you eat , or feed your dog things you have killed" I asked her what she meant by this and she said it again ! She then told me I should feed my dog on vegetarian food. Before I could process this rubbish she then said " does your dog even have a bed to sleep in or does she have to sleep outside on the ground ? " by this point I was getting fed up of this crap (and my dog was still lying under their chair whining in pain and shivering , and still hadn't been examined yet) so I explained to her that my dog sleeps in the house next to the fire on a dog mattress that cost me £60 with two lambs wool blankets and always has a bowl of fresh water at her disposal and that she also has a dog box made by transk9 in my truck that cost me £500 and that I take better care of my dog than I do of myself and that I'd be most grateful if she could now take a look at my dog.
She then spent all of 2 minutes looking my dog over and said that she wasn't sure what was wrong with My dog but that her muscles were swollen and that it could be a virus or something she ate but that she thought it was most likely because I'd been over working her and training her too hard. She then said that all she was going to do was to inject her with a mixture of anti inflammatory drugs and pain killers. I asked her how my dog would metabolise the drugs if she did infact have a virus or gastric infection and she said they could seriously harm her and make her very ill. so I asked her what benefits there were to her being given them and she said that either way she would not feel any pain! So, i politely refused the drug injections for My dog and the 'vet' was rather unhappy with that , so I just politely left her surgery and got ready to take my dog home. ( i had to wrap her up and carry her out as she couldn't stand up or walk) On the way out The receptionist said that seeing as there was no clear diagnosis and no treatments given I 'only' had to pay £ 115 for the 15 minutes I'd been in there for ! I was so horrified that I just gave her the cash and left. Anyway, Despite all that My dog is much better this morning and can walk normally again and isn't whining , and doesn't have her tail tucked up underneath her belly anymore, but is pretty tired out. I gave her a hard boiled egg and her biscuits for breakfast and she wolfed it down. She's gone back to sleep now and seems ok. All I can say is that vet was a total nightmare and I dislike the anti hunting extremists with even more passion than I did before now. I hate animal cruelty and that's why I dislike the Anti hunting brigade. I told The retired vet I know about it this morning and he said that I need to report that 'vet' to the royal institute of vetinary surgeons . I'm not going to walk my dog today as she's in need of laziness and a nice fire to sleep next to.
What a waste of an evening yesterday was and what a waste of £115 when I'm struggling to pay for the costs of moving to Germany as it is. a really pathetic and nasty vet.........
She's a Bavarian mountain hound Labrador cross and she's only 2 years old.
It wasn't good. I had to take her to an emergency out if hours vets near Cambridge , unfortunately the vet working there was an animal rites extremist with a side undercut hair cut and was a serious problem case.
When she came into the waiting room she gave me a look of total disgust before I'd even spoken to her and said " is that a hunting dog ?" Obviously i had to say she was and she basically treated my dog and me with total and blatant disrespect and discrimination from the there on. I never once responded to any of her leading questions or nasty comments and remained polite and friendly despite her horrible remarks. Some of the things that this unpleasant woman said actually left me shocked , for example, she asked me if my dog had been fed her normal meal and I said she had, she then said " you don't have to kill everything you eat , or feed your dog things you have killed" I asked her what she meant by this and she said it again ! She then told me I should feed my dog on vegetarian food. Before I could process this rubbish she then said " does your dog even have a bed to sleep in or does she have to sleep outside on the ground ? " by this point I was getting fed up of this crap (and my dog was still lying under their chair whining in pain and shivering , and still hadn't been examined yet) so I explained to her that my dog sleeps in the house next to the fire on a dog mattress that cost me £60 with two lambs wool blankets and always has a bowl of fresh water at her disposal and that she also has a dog box made by transk9 in my truck that cost me £500 and that I take better care of my dog than I do of myself and that I'd be most grateful if she could now take a look at my dog.
She then spent all of 2 minutes looking my dog over and said that she wasn't sure what was wrong with My dog but that her muscles were swollen and that it could be a virus or something she ate but that she thought it was most likely because I'd been over working her and training her too hard. She then said that all she was going to do was to inject her with a mixture of anti inflammatory drugs and pain killers. I asked her how my dog would metabolise the drugs if she did infact have a virus or gastric infection and she said they could seriously harm her and make her very ill. so I asked her what benefits there were to her being given them and she said that either way she would not feel any pain! So, i politely refused the drug injections for My dog and the 'vet' was rather unhappy with that , so I just politely left her surgery and got ready to take my dog home. ( i had to wrap her up and carry her out as she couldn't stand up or walk) On the way out The receptionist said that seeing as there was no clear diagnosis and no treatments given I 'only' had to pay £ 115 for the 15 minutes I'd been in there for ! I was so horrified that I just gave her the cash and left. Anyway, Despite all that My dog is much better this morning and can walk normally again and isn't whining , and doesn't have her tail tucked up underneath her belly anymore, but is pretty tired out. I gave her a hard boiled egg and her biscuits for breakfast and she wolfed it down. She's gone back to sleep now and seems ok. All I can say is that vet was a total nightmare and I dislike the anti hunting extremists with even more passion than I did before now. I hate animal cruelty and that's why I dislike the Anti hunting brigade. I told The retired vet I know about it this morning and he said that I need to report that 'vet' to the royal institute of vetinary surgeons . I'm not going to walk my dog today as she's in need of laziness and a nice fire to sleep next to.
What a waste of an evening yesterday was and what a waste of £115 when I'm struggling to pay for the costs of moving to Germany as it is. a really pathetic and nasty vet.........
