I didnt believe vets actually did this......

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I took Flick to have her booster tonight. The vet who saw me was onto a loser from the start really, she had been on our yard a few days earlier and had been absolutely totally useless with a horse which had an allergic reaction when she injected it :eek: Horse nearly dropped dead from a heart attack (no exageration) and she was flapping about in her open-toed sandals (:confused::confused:) and couldnt cope!

I did warn her that Flick was sensitive to being injected, so she proceeded to put the needle in to vaccinate her.... and the vaccine all came out the other side of Flicks neck :eek: I have only ever seen that on Vets in Practice on the TV, I didnt realise vets actually DID it ever :eek:

Needless to say, that vet will never be treating any of my animals again :o
 
Oh dear! :rolleyes:

We get a lot of Vet Students sent to work for work experience, and it amazes how many of them have no confidence around animals! The girl at the moment told me she was frightened the dogs would bite her and the horses would kick her, I told her if she had that attitude, she probably would get hurt!
 
I think the problem is that the practice I go to with the dogs has an endless stream of newly qualifieds? There appear to be two new ones there at the moment, one of whom is good and this other one...:o
 
It happens, and is not necessarily a reflection on the quality of vet.
Was she outside of normal hours with the horse or in normal working hours?
I assume she didn't squirt the whole vaccine out the hole but restarted the injection?
 
No this was an arranged visit for the horse...

And no, she squirted the whole lot of vaccine through, then had to go and get another lot to do it properly :o
 
I know I ought not to laugh at the vaccine going straight through but oh my God, it's that or cry. As for the horse incident, crikey, I'd have been terrified.

I did have to laugh at a newly qualified vet trying to sedate my loan horse, who was having none of it. She tried to put a towel over the horse's head and said 'Watch this, amazing'. Of course the horse went backwards, full size rears, very headshy. My friend eventually injected the horse (ex-vet nurse).

This is the same vet who told us the horse wouldn't need sedating for her bandages to be changed, even though we told her it would. It did. God save us from brand new vets!
 
Yeah the horse thing was scary CT, thank goodness the YO and her OH were around, they were brilliant and knew exactly what they were doing :)

As for the vaccine... well I was stood holding onto Flicks head so she wouldnt snap... I just looked and thought 'Oh My God' :D:D:D:D:D:D

Like you say, god save us from them, yours sound an absolute classic :eek:
 
I know when treating the 'pets' on the farm I will specify who I don't want to treat them, and who I would prefer. Obviously not so easy if it was an emergency, but I do it for non emergency cases.

There is one vet at our practice that we nicknamed ' Dr Death' and when at a 21st party of one of the girls from the practice, with most of the vets present (luckily not Dr Death himself:rolleyes: ) after a few vinos I preceded to tell everyone about out nickname for him.......:o
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actually it's something that's not that hard to do. i've done it several times and i'm no new graduate. are you going to take the piss out of me too?? it doesn't make me a bad vet - it happens to everyone, nurses and vets included. it's no problem as long as you realise it's happened.
 
star said:
actually it's something that's not that hard to do. i've done it several times and i'm no new graduate. are you going to take the piss out of me too?? it doesn't make me a bad vet - it happens to everyone, nurses and vets included. it's no problem as long as you realise it's happened.
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I'm not taking the piss out of her Star, I am saying she is not treating any of my animals again!
 
horseyscot said:
I know when treating the 'pets' on the farm I will specify who I don't want to treat them, and who I would prefer. Obviously not so easy if it was an emergency, but I do it for non emergency cases.

There is one vet at our practice that we nicknamed ' Dr Death' and when at a 21st party of one of the girls from the practice, with most of the vets present (luckily not Dr Death himself:rolleyes: ) after a few vinos I preceded to tell everyone about out nickname for him.......:o
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Nice one HorseyScot :D:D:D Thats the sort of thing I would do :o:D
 
I understand this must have been a bit scary for you but I for one don't mind newly qualified vets, provided, if I'm using them for the horses they actually have an interest in equine medicine. I usually find that they are bang up to date with the latest innovations, we have a fantastic one at the moment who is so enthusiastic and very knowledgeable and capable, like everything else you can't tar everyone with the same brush.
 
I used one vet once who persistantly called my male dog a she, whilst she hand her hand up his bum.

She also took about 10 mins to empty his anal glands, I can do it quicker myself!
 
Make sure they dont try and charge you for the 1st vaccine.

I had an incompetent vet (yes I can say that as he no longer practices due to incompetance) who tried to sedate my big girl once when she was undergoing months of treatment. He missed completely the first time round so had to sedate her again. They tried to charge me TWICE for the sedative. Was a long battle with other vets from the practice acting in my defence as the incompetent vet tried to claim that my horse was dangerous!!! (Which she isnt by the way). I had 4 vets from the same practice sign a statement to state that they had never had a problem injecting her.
He also made my mares injury 10 times worse over night so I had to have an emergency call out the following day. This time it was my normal vet who resolved the problem.
The whole incident got very messy, he lost his job in the practice and it turned out that this was not the first (or second or third) time he had done something like this.
My horse now has a major phobia of needles which we believe stems from this one incident.
The vet I use now I have used for the last 6 years and she is FANTASTIC!
I am very fussy who I use now after what happened.
 
Oooo never thought of that :eek: I paid the bill, was £150, but that was a Sunday call out and a first vaccine for the horse too :) Might double check next time I go in there, I am sure I'll be there before too long :o:D
 
Oh no!! :eek::eek: poor Flick has to go through it twice over!

I think we've all had bad experiences with vets! Oh and Doctors ... :D

Hope she's had an extra sausage tonight for her troubles!!! :D:p
 
In deference to the vet however I must say that, so far, Flick is not screaming her head off every time she moves, which she did last year when she was vaccinated :D It was a reaction to the needle not the vaccine then, but it gave us both a rather disturbed nights sleep :D:D:D
 
Poor Flick!!
I'm aiming to be a vet and whilst its annoying and irritating to have a new vet who a) doesn't know what they're doing b) won't listen to you (oh yes, we've been there with a friends horse "he doesn't like men" "Oh he'll be fine" *puts hand out* *cue squealing and booting out* :rolleyes:)
but similiarly I know people who refuse to have newly qualified vets to treat their animals - now this I don't agree with...how are they meant to learn otherwise?
Just by chance, the senior vet started to treat Kellys lami this summer so we ask for him every time now so he knows where he is up to with her - he has a fantastic rep, but new vets need a chance to build that rep up! :)
I hope Flick isn't too distressed....lots of extra biscuits!!!!
K x
 
I'm very happy to have a new vet treating my boy: he's very calm and well behaved so a good 'guinea pig'.

What I objected to with the one I mentioned earlier is her sheer arrogance, trying to chuck a towel over my loan girl's head, having been told she was headshy and telling us she wouldn't need sedating for bandaging when we told her that she would! We knew the horse (she was a demon!) and she didn't. I did laugh when for another injection, she had to phone a colleague to come-the colleague gave the horse a polo, slid in the injection, there you go. I think listening to the owner/loaner is a bit helpful!
 
As some of you may know I will hopefully be the parent of a newly qualifed vet this time next year, and as she has been going through uni I havereviewed my opinion of them. At one time I used to always try and get the senior partners to my animals, but in the main find the new vets are just as capable, and our practice does give them full "back up", so that helps. The practice did have one new vet a couple of years ago who was very nice, but had no idea how to approach the dogs. He absolutely smothered them with lots of "aren't you beautiful" etc. Not suprisingly he was bitten within the first week, and didn't last very long at the practice. It has suprised me (and daughter) how many students are not used to or happy handling horses. Fine if they are going to work with small animals but not so good in a mixed practice:( I can remember in 1st year that H was really looking forward to their first practical day with horses, all they did was learn how to put headcollars on etc.
Hope Flick is ok today, as for turning up to horses in sandals, think I would have had to pass comment.:p
 
Wow,if an ordinary vaccination was beyond her just imagine when she has a scalpel in her sticky little hand!Newly milled vets can have a few year`s practice before they treat my animals ,thanks.:rolleyes:
 
As Star says-it's not uncommon and she dealt with it the correct way, by not attempting to just cover it over and leave her potentially unvaccinated but by getting a fresh one.
It's an easy thing to do by even experienced vets...
The sandals though is just irresponsible I agree
 
Ok, I have done this too - only once, but then I'm not actually a vet yet so I'm sure I will get plenty more opportunities to do things wrong. Unfortunately all vets have to start somewhere; senior partners were new grads once, imagine if no clients let them near the animals - they would never have got as good as they are now!!

I would like to think I am reasonably competent in handling animals, and in giving injections. I was horrified when I did it (*OMG, I'm turning into Trude off Vet School*), until I saw an older vet do the same thing later in the day and realised actually how easy it is to put the needle that little bit too far.
 
My only gripe with Vet Students today, is that they walk so god dam slow :mad: ;) :p

I got drenched today taking forever to catch some horses I could have got on my own in 10 mins! They were so busy chatting it took us 30 minutes to get up to the field!! :mad: :D :D :D
 
I'm really glad a respected poster like Star and others have admitted it happens to us all. I am a vet student and the first time I did this I was amazed and horrified at the same time. I just saw this little puddle of fluid appearing on the table and the owner tutting like skippy the bush kangeroo (which I don't blame her). Luckily the vet supervising said to the owner it was not a problem, it happens and we just revaccinated.

New vets have to learn. This happens to experienced and new vets alike. As a owner I sympathise and would have had the same reaction until I started training as a vet myself. No excuse for any vet going on a horse call in open toed sandles though and I also wish vets of all ages would listen to owners.
 
I can see what all you vets and vets-in-training mean, but surely you have had 5 years at vet school to learn to do a simple vaccination :confused:

But as I said last night, in due deference to the vet in question, Flick has suffered no reaction at all to the injection this year, so full marks to her for that :):):)
 
CareyR said:
I can see what all you vets and vets-in-training mean, but surely you have had 5 years at vet school to learn to do a simple vaccination :confused:

But as I said last night, in due deference to the vet in question, Flick has suffered no reaction at all to the injection this year, so full marks to her for that :):):)
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until you've actually done a subcutaneous injection i dont think you're qualified to comment. it is incredibly easy to stick it through both layers of skin at once, but you wouldn't know that because you've never done it. i can guarantee you every single member of my practice has done it more than once. it doesn't make us all crap!
 
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