#I also worked in vet med

[that-dreaded-wolf]

Responses like this are insufferable. No. They found a home for the dog. Just take two seconds to check the blog this is from rather than being judgmental and callous. Also a dog putting their child at risk is not a simple “inconvenience”. You truly outed yourself with that line alone.

We have seen enough cases of people keeping high prey drive pets around kids resulting in deaths for both the pet and kids. Or even elders. Or even fit adults. Do yall really wanna insist on pushing for that or risk the baby’s life after all attempted interventions have failed? Life isn’t black and white, and the sooner you folks realize that the better off you’ll be.

Learn some humanity.

Hey, kind of a long shot but figured it never hurts to ask:

Do any of my followers live or know someone in Oakland, CA who’s looking for a dog? Our friend Richard and his wife just had a baby and they’ve tried so hard but the new baby and dog are just not compatible.

He’s about nine, very high energy and affectionate. Not a good fit with kids or cats as he’s pretty high prey drive but very friendly and well socialized otherwise.

Here’s Milo

Shoot me a DM if interested. They’d love to be able to see him sometimes if you’d also like to make friends with some cool nerds.

[lottieurl]

so. the bad news:

early stages of kidney failure

hypothyroidism

inflammation of the pancreas

the good news:

there's a treatment plan

if she reacts well to the treatment she should gain weight

she's not in pain so if she's on meds and eats different food more suited for her current health issues she should be comfortable and at ease

with treatment if it goes well it shouldn't greatly affect her life expectancy and of course she's already almost 16yo so that could mean another year or two or in best case scenario three to four but that's what's been expected already so no change there

[lampfacedstudios]

have really rough couple of weeks filled with death and emotional trauma and other fun things out of your hands?

draw self indulgent nonsense

[corvid777]

do not ask me how my day was unless you are prepared to hear the most disgusting vet med stories

[sga-owns-my-soul]

being an adult is all fun and games until i have to take my cat to the vet for urinary inflammation and myself to the dentist for a massive cavity and infection in the same fucking day 🙃🙃🙃

i'm so tired

[ethereal-occultist]

Is it bad that I’m annoyed at my job wanting me to grow and learn? Like I just wanna stay where I’m at, I don’t need to level up or do other jobs around the hospital idk

[mod2amaryllis]

many strangers on tumblr tapping into a conversation I've been having with my therapist for seven years

[babygirlwolverine]

sorry I haven’t been active this week, first week of working has been busy and exhausting but fun and exciting! mentorship has been going great and I’m getting back into the swing of surgery and seeing patients! in less than 2 weeks, it’ll officially be me seeing my first ever patient as a doctor, but for now I’m really enjoying mentoring with some great doctors to learn more as a doctor!

[daughterofsarenrae]

Man we hit a good dosage for angus's meds and hes like. Acting like his old self right now. Def with the energy down like 90% but hes exploring my room and playing with toys and his back legs are holding his weight and it's so nice to see again

[madqueenalanna]

we have a client at work whose "type" is like black pitty mixes (she keeps getting them) and she came in w one the other day and my coworker was like "that's great cause there's that black dog syndrome" and the client was like "oh yeah i have that i love these black dogs" and my coworker was like "no it's about how black dogs are way less likely to get adopted in general" (i added "black cats too") and the client was like ??? WHAT???? FOR REAL??? i love that she's so obsessed w her (gorgeous, well behaved) dogs that she couldn't even conceive of a world where people didn't like them

[gatheryepens]

Okay mini life update since I’m about halfway through my gap year….

[sudokuplayer]

i'm so angry and heartbroken and i think this is all i will ever be

[sleepywinchesters]

It's been a rough couple weeks in general..school isn't going as well as I hoped. And we had a patient die in clinic suddenly yesterday and it was horrifying. And like I still want to be a vet more than anything. But the universe needs to cut my clinic in particular a fucking break because I honestly can't take it if we hit a dozen deaths (including a staff pet) and more cancer and devastating disease diagnoses than I can count.

[2024skin]

can't decide if I want to be a gynecologist or if I want to marry one

[timeisacephalopod]

Just got home from a job interview (not the one I did last Thursday) and it went very well so I'm hoping that I get the job since it's mostly days and the "afternoon" shift is 11-8. Shitty shift, but far better than ending work between 930-1030 and then having to travel home. If I'm done at 8 I'm home by 9, at the latest, and the busses are super convenient to get to that job. Requires a bus transfer but it's quite a convenient bus transfer and the stops are all RIGHT outside my house and the job so 👌🏻👌🏻 let's hope I get the job because it's full time and when I say I've been looking for a full time job since I was 25 I'm not fucking exaggerating, and so far the closest I got was trying to jam two jobs into enough hours to live and also have a day off sometimes so it'd be a fuckin relief to have guaranteed hours. Bing bang boom, most of my problems solved

[sentientmoths]

(this advice is far too late but oh well) That looks like gabapentin! (which is one of the pre-anesthesia meds the vets at my job usually give out) its ok to be given still if it gets wet :D you can even dump out the capsule onto some wet food if that makes it easier to give to ur cats if that makes it easier to get in em!

had some drama yesterday!

the vet wanted me to pre-game Belphie with a sedative the night before his neutering (not because Belphie is a difficult boy or anything, it's just their new procedure). anyway, Toronto happened to be experiencing the worst thunderstorm/flooding event in years. I thought I picked a safe dry time to dart out and pick up the pill, but actually I chose the worst possible time and got trapped in the middle of it for a while