In all my born days

[Clodagh]

I just got back from the vets with Pen, she’s got a little lump and I was worried it was a thorn.
Saw a new vet, which is fine, she was a bit fluttery but perfectly adequate.
Pen is nervous at the vets so goes stiff and trembles. I put her on the table and asked her to sit so the vet could examine her chest. The vet grabbed her head with both hands and kissed her on the nose! Oh my! If that had been Ffee we would probably be finding a plastic surgeon about now. I was completely unprepared. Luckily Pen just sat there, all bug eyed with horror. As was I!

 

[CorvusCorax]

I've had a couple of vets I could have grabbed and kissed but never experienced it the other way around.

 

[Clodagh]

I've had a couple of vets I could have grabbed and kissed but never experienced it the other way around.

I had a gorgeous vet back in Essex. I think he thought I was after him. I really, really wasn’t. .
One day I lifted the dog on the table and three buttons on my shirt came undone. He was eye level with my boobs across the table.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Thank God my favourite one is retired now. I used to go all silly and giggly around him

 

[Clodagh]

Thank God my favourite one is retired now. I used to go all silly and giggly around him

Oh I hate that. There’a a couple of people in my life who think I’m a bit simple, as I can’t string a sentence together and occasionally drool a bit

 

[Spotherisk]

Pen is very kissable. That is completely bonkers though, very inappropriate. Makes me appreciate my vets all the more.

Rew goes very trembly (as you can imagine!) but forgot himself recently, gave up leaning on me and melted himself onto the actual vet whilst still having a nervous breakdown.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I feel absolutely flabbergasted.

My curiosity is dying to know if this was a one off, or if she does this with all patients? Were you perhaps tempted to hang around a little at the vet's parking lot, to ask other dog (maybe even cat!) owners if veterinarian X kissed their dog(/cat!) on the nose?
I know vet visits are expensive, but if I had more than one dog I'd be sorely tempted to book a basic health check-up some time later for one of my other dogs, with the same veterinarian, to see if it happened again.

Hope it went well with Pen's lump.

 

[Tiddlypom]

She’d not have done that to a cat!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

She’d not have done that to a cat!

That was my first thought, too, but then I thought Who knows? If she can't resist kissing cute dogs she doesn't know, why let the madness stop there?

 

[Spotherisk]

If she’d tried that with our stud Cocker he would have been delighted and thought she wanted to have his babies!

 

[Indy]

Bandit would have shoved his tongue down her throat

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

I'm glad no vet has tried that with zazu!

 

[ArklePig]

I wonder if she's at home right now thinking 'it finally happened, my intrusive thoughts finally won'.

My dog always kisses the vet, not the other way around. Just gives her a smacko and a tickle round the ears

 

[Jinx94]

I'm glad no vet has tried that with zazu!

I was going to write this exact same thing!

My Zazu has managed to launch and dish out black eyes/bloody noses without people getting THAT close! (It's with excitement/love and is constantly being worked on, if people are playing with her they are told VERY clearly to not lean over her!)

 

[FieldOrnaments]

 

[FieldOrnaments]

I'd have to say something to the practice manager....that could end really badly if she tried it with the wrong dog!

My vets always say the animals that inspire most respect/wariness amongst staff are cats and hamsters

 

[Chiffy]

My goodness Clodagh, I can hardly believe a vet would do such a thing with a dog they had never met before.
If that had been one of my flatcoats, she would have got a damn good face wash but flatcoats are an exception to the rule. If you don’t like being licked, don’t get a flatcoat!
I am trying to work out if I would have been shocked or if I am so used to the outgoing friendly nature. I don’t think I would have expected it on a first meeting.

 

[Clodagh]

I'm glad no vet has tried that with zazu!

Zazu is your Ffee.

 

[Clodagh]

Same vet (we have worked out) went out to a friends kennels to inoculate her Gundogs. She has 16. Vet apparently walked in shrieking ‘oh look aren’t they just gorgeous’ and waving her arms around. Friend said half were terrified and half thoroughly overexcited. Just what you want when you’ve got to inject and KC them all.
Very strange and I’ve never seen anything like it. I think I may have a quiet word. She’s not that young though, so either she’s newly qualified or very lucky.

 

[Clodagh]

I wish I’d though to say I’d bought her in about ringworm on her muzzle

 

[meleeka]

Blimey! She's going to come very unstuck with that approach one day. A family member has a small, very cute looking, fluffy dog. He would probably have been having her nose for lunch and there'd be no noise or warning. Thankfully, with a German Shepherd I usually have the other extreme. Vets think she's going to savage them, despite my saying she's as safe as other dog. They usually ask me to hold her head when they have to go anywhere near her. At least they don't bother checking her teeth and giving me the hard sell about having a descale

 

[Titchy Pony]

How very strange. Quite apart from safety issues (don't they teach that at vet school?), it's not a very professional behaviour. It would leave me wondering if I was seeing an actual vet or if I was being pranked by some weird instagramer. It would certainly lower my trust in the vet's capacities by about 90%.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

She’d not have done that to a cat!

Shirley would like to refute the reputation cats at vets have and let everyone know she felt quite at home No sedation or otherwise involved!

 

[Clodagh]

How very strange. Quite apart from safety issues (don't they teach that at vet school?), it's not a very professional behaviour. It would leave me wondering if I was seeing an actual vet or if I was being pranked by some weird instagramer. It would certainly lower my trust in the vet's capacities by about 90%.

I will be requesting my usual vet from now on, that’s for sure. It’s just if I make an on the day appointment you get pot luck.

 

[HeresHoping]

Did you check the bill? I mean, did they charge extra for the kiss?

 

[poiuytrewq]

What a bizarre thing for a vet to do!
Someone once did it to my little dog in the pub. I was sat on a bar stool at the bar and he was on my lap chilling when some kid ran in and cupped his head in his hands and kissed his face! I was horrified. I’d put my life in him never biting and I do that to him but could have gone so wrong!
Vets really should know better.

 

[FieldOrnaments]

I feel like having a dog that is well behaved enough to put up with that should net you at least a 20% discount on the consultation fee

 

[Indy]

The thing with Bandit is he will try his hardest to stick his tongue down your throat, in your ear wherever he can. Then I'll say you'll need to put a muzzle on, the vet looks at me like are you kidding.

At the end of the consult the vet always say thank you for telling me about the muzzle I would never have thought it.

Bandit loves the loves and fuss but just can't deal with the examination side of thing

 

[Time for Tea]

I think it must be young fluffy vets. We have one in our practice, and she needed to examine our GSD’s ear. He tensed up, nervily, so what did she do but say oh poor boy and put her face right down next to his. He opened his mouth and sort of rushed at her face making a loud warning woof. I suggested she get a muzzle, which I had to put on him. I then had to look in his ear. I had to put the resultant liquid in for its first treatment. I then had to pay the large fee for the work I had done myself! She seemed amazed when I said it wasn’t a good idea to put your face right up next to a dogs, specially a strange large dog that was already frightened. Ridiculous. The other vet is completely matter of fact and he is so much better with her.

 

[Clodagh]

The thing with Bandit is he will try his hardest to stick his tongue down your throat, in your ear wherever he can. Then I'll say you'll need to put a muzzle on, the vet looks at me like are you kidding.

At the end of the consult the vet always say thank you for telling me about the muzzle I would never have thought it.

Bandit loves the loves and fuss but just can't deal with the examination side of thing

Whereas at least with Ffee the vets know that she must be handled like a hormonal Siberian tiger at all times. Heaven help us all if she has to see this vet. I’ll Agritape her mouth shut.
That’s the vets mouth, btw.