FinnishLapphund
There's no cow on the ice
Blomma have one less tooth, but I'm a bit proud over that both the veterinarian who checked her before the tooth operation, and the veterinarian who did the operation, said that she have very clean teeth for her age (she's 9 years). But sadly you can tell that her teeth is very well used (she loves gnawing on bones). Anyhow, besides the broken tooth, they only found, and removed, tiny amounts of calculus.
The operating veterinarian also said that Blomma is a very lovely dog, and that you could tell that she is used to having someone "faffing" around in her mouth. I'm glad that my attempts at trying to keep their teeth clean is noticeable.
I also can't resist to mention that yet again I've noticed that there seems to be 2 type of dog owners in veterinarian's waiting room.
When we go in through the doors, my bitches goes straight to the scale. Today both Jonna, and Beata stepped up on it as soon as they came up to it, so I had to tell Beata to go down, and wait on her turn. When they both had been weighted, I told Blomma to get up on the scale. Just like the others, she got up, sat down, and patiently waited for me to praise her, before she was told to go down, and we went to sit down, to wait for the veterinarian.
It goes smoothly, and relatively quickly to weight them all. Even though, sometimes, Jonna tries to sneak back on, and get weighted a second time, before we leave the scale.
Some other owners I've seen through the years seems to be similar to me, and my bitches. They go up to the scale, tells their dog to get up on it, their dogs do as told, gets weighted, and they can go and sit down.
But many seems to be the other type of owners. They start by asking their dog if it wants to go over, and get on the scale. The dog is usually the opposite of enthusiastic over this suggestion.
When they eventually still do gets close to the scale, their dog usually suddenly, quickly tries to walk past the scale. Gets gently persuaded back to the scale, and after several new requests from their owner, they finally decides to place 3 paws on the scale.
However as soon as the fourth paw seems to be going up on the scale, another paw quickly goes off the scale. This one paw always off the scale balett, continues for a while, until the dog accidentally happens to not get one paw off the scale quickly enough, and the owner finally manages to get their weight.
The owner starts praising their dog, and it is usually already about to get off the scale again. But since they now know their dog's weight, they go and sit down.
Sometimes this one paw always off the scale balett, requires the assistance of one or more persons from the staff, to get a weight on the dog.
And I can't help but wonder why they're asking their dog in the first place? If they know that they need to know the weight of their dog, why are they asking it, if it wants to get weighted?
It reminds me of parents who asks their child if it wants to stay at the daycare, even though they know that staying isn't really an option.
The operating veterinarian also said that Blomma is a very lovely dog, and that you could tell that she is used to having someone "faffing" around in her mouth. I'm glad that my attempts at trying to keep their teeth clean is noticeable.
I also can't resist to mention that yet again I've noticed that there seems to be 2 type of dog owners in veterinarian's waiting room.
When we go in through the doors, my bitches goes straight to the scale. Today both Jonna, and Beata stepped up on it as soon as they came up to it, so I had to tell Beata to go down, and wait on her turn. When they both had been weighted, I told Blomma to get up on the scale. Just like the others, she got up, sat down, and patiently waited for me to praise her, before she was told to go down, and we went to sit down, to wait for the veterinarian.
It goes smoothly, and relatively quickly to weight them all. Even though, sometimes, Jonna tries to sneak back on, and get weighted a second time, before we leave the scale.
Some other owners I've seen through the years seems to be similar to me, and my bitches. They go up to the scale, tells their dog to get up on it, their dogs do as told, gets weighted, and they can go and sit down.
But many seems to be the other type of owners. They start by asking their dog if it wants to go over, and get on the scale. The dog is usually the opposite of enthusiastic over this suggestion.
When they eventually still do gets close to the scale, their dog usually suddenly, quickly tries to walk past the scale. Gets gently persuaded back to the scale, and after several new requests from their owner, they finally decides to place 3 paws on the scale.
However as soon as the fourth paw seems to be going up on the scale, another paw quickly goes off the scale. This one paw always off the scale balett, continues for a while, until the dog accidentally happens to not get one paw off the scale quickly enough, and the owner finally manages to get their weight.
The owner starts praising their dog, and it is usually already about to get off the scale again. But since they now know their dog's weight, they go and sit down.
Sometimes this one paw always off the scale balett, requires the assistance of one or more persons from the staff, to get a weight on the dog.
And I can't help but wonder why they're asking their dog in the first place? If they know that they need to know the weight of their dog, why are they asking it, if it wants to get weighted?
It reminds me of parents who asks their child if it wants to stay at the daycare, even though they know that staying isn't really an option.