In all my born days

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.
Ffee is ok with my usual vet, doesn’t need muzzling or anything. She just DOES NOT WANT TO BE THEIR FRIEND.
One of the 4 people she sort of likes is @Spotherisk as she completely ignores her, so Ffee is almost friendly now.
 
No vet ever kisses Winnie she needs a muzzle on as soon as she goes through the door 🤣

Never known a vet to do that though it's pretty foolish, although the dentist that does my horses kisses them and calls them gorgeous 🤣🤣his a bit eccentric but they do genuinely love him as well so what he does obviously works.
 
Scout came to the golf club for lunch the other day (I love that, it sounds so posh… trust me it’s not 🤣). An older lady was there having lunch. She was daft as a brush. She came over when her family were paying and was whispering in Scout’s ear. Luckily he is mainly intensely greedy and thought she might have a biscuit so remained calm and still.
Nowadays you seem to need animals that can cope with far more than they ever used to have to cope with, be they horses, dogs or others. No one thinks anything through any more. There is no impulse control.
 
I fully agree with that Clodagh. As you know Fodhla is my first adult dog but I can't get over the sheer amount of people that just think she is public property. 9/10 if someone wants to say hello I'll allow it, pop her in a sit and ask them to scratch her chest. I'm so lucky that she is friendly, and she absolutely loves a fuss off anyone half normal but the amount of people that reach over the head to rub her, approach from behind with an outstretched hand, or kids that run full pelt at her is the number one biggest shock of dog ownership to me.
 
Crazy behaviour from a vet, even the friendly dog might object to that. I love the approach used by my vets, they basically ignore the dog for a couple of minutes then say a gentle hello, no diving in and grabbing.
Maybe it's because they are GSDs but it was good on holiday last week that a few people asked if they could come and say hello but no one just came up and started fussing them. Zenya in particular loves a cuddle from anyone, but that's not the point is it .
 
I was going to say that it is way less likely to happen with a GSD. My lovely vet, who is both colleague and friend and has seen me through two generations of dogs now, when I told her I was getting a GSD next told me that I would have to pick on someone else to treat her. She was only half joking…

Last weekend a group of teenagers asked if they could say hello, which I think is the first time since she was about five months old.
 
I get many varied reactions to my GSD. One in particular I remember, when we were out for a walk. He had gone ahead a little and round a corner to a gate into woodland. When I came round the corner, there he was, standing at the gate, tail waving, waiting to be let through. On the other side of the gate was a couple, apparently frozen with fear. They breathed a sigh of relief as I rounded the corner. Thank goodness, they said. We thought he was a wolf! 🐺 of course the New Forest well known for its free roaming wolf packs.
 
No vet ever kisses Winnie she needs a muzzle on as soon as she goes through the door 🤣

Never known a vet to do that though it's pretty foolish, although the dentist that does my horses kisses them and calls them gorgeous 🤣🤣his a bit eccentric but they do genuinely love him as well so what he does obviously works.

My two horses saw the dentist when they were 30 years old and after treating them he gave them both a big hug, from the front, arms right around up to the wither, just because he loved them so much. And a discount for being such wonderful boys. Sadly he never got to see them again.
 
Last time, i went with my Basset, the usual vet was away and it was a very young vet.

She had no idea and had to call the senior vet 3 times to check on medication.... Then she kissed Nouille on the top of the head....

I wasn't impressed and won't go back there, i know young vets have to learn but really she was completly useless.

She though Nouille had a phantom pregnancy and didn't pick up it was a pyomètre...She was bleeding and it wasn't in season, it could have been dangerous to miss....

Then, she wouldn't do an echo, thinking the bleeding will simply stop at some point...

Lucikly, i went to another vet and they operated in emergency....
 
I have considered getting a yellow lead add in, one of those I need space jobs, just to stop people rushing in. Tbh I find that at agility nearly everyone is sensible, apart from standing too close with their own dogs…
Sorry to tell you it probably won't work. I know a GreyhoundXMastiff who has one and a yellow bandana with similar writing on it. The owner was incandescent the day a stupid woman got hold of the bandana and leaned right in to read what it said. Fortunately it didn't end too badly but the dog was not happy. He prefers to be ignored and will then approach you if he likes the look of you.
 
One of mine doesnt really care about people my other one would dance up to the vet and die of joy if she snogged him. He assumes everyone has come to see him, and if I let him go up to people he dances and then does the whippet body hug. My other boy just looks on in absolute disgust 😂😂 I am so very glad that neither would bat an eyelid at being kissed. The younger boy probably wouldn't like it, but it wouldn't upset him or worry him.

Where and how I live ,guess I am super lucky to have such amenable dogs, it would be a nightmare if I had to be watching every idiot that walks by.
 
I was walking my dogs along a track in the woods last week and i spotted a woman but couldn't see her dog, I was intending to go left back home as she came towards me my dogs were just behind me.

Then as she came closer I saw her dog it was a ridgeback and it instantly growled and looked like it was going to run at me, she grabbed it and laughed it off saying she is fine really.

I said well I don't think she looked fine she growled and then looked like she was going to come at me, maybe put her on a lead when people and dogs are approaching surely that's safer.

Her reply was she doesn't need to be put on a lead 🤷‍♀️

I give up with some people.
 
Sorry to tell you it probably won't work. I know a GreyhoundXMastiff who has one and a yellow bandana with similar writing on it. The owner was incandescent the day a stupid woman got hold of the bandana and leaned right in to read what it said. Fortunately it didn't end too badly but the dog was not happy. He prefers to be ignored and will then approach you if he likes the look of you.
I understand that, but it gives me the chance to practise righteous indignation!
 
I get many varied reactions to my GSD. One in particular I remember, when we were out for a walk. He had gone ahead a little and round a corner to a gate into woodland. When I came round the corner, there he was, standing at the gate, tail waving, waiting to be let through. On the other side of the gate was a couple, apparently frozen with fear. They breathed a sigh of relief as I rounded the corner. Thank goodness, they said. We thought he was a wolf! 🐺 of course the New Forest well known for its free roaming wolf packs.
Vividly remember once when doing archaeological fieldwork in thetford forest being approached at high speed over an area of cleared ground by a really enormous husky. What with the backdrop of pine trees and the complete absence of an owner (later identified yelling from the trees about 200m away) I did have a bit of a WTF moment. Also I was wearing a vest top and my shoulders ended up scratched to bits. At least he was friendly. Bit too friendly!
 
I was walking my dogs along a track in the woods last week and i spotted a woman but couldn't see her dog, I was intending to go left back home as she came towards me my dogs were just behind me.

Then as she came closer I saw her dog it was a ridgeback and it instantly growled and looked like it was going to run at me, she grabbed it and laughed it off saying she is fine really.

I said well I don't think she looked fine she growled and then looked like she was going to come at me, maybe put her on a lead when people and dogs are approaching surely that's safer.

Her reply was she doesn't need to be put on a lead 🤷‍♀️

I give up with some people.
Hopeless isn’t it?
 
Hopeless isn’t it?
Isn't it just I feel like I can't relax in those woods because you get hoards of dog walkers all the time, some have 10 big dogs and they are noisy and it scares me when 8 hear them.

Even riding in there is not pleasant my horse thinks its the hunt when he hears dogs barking and looses the plot.
 
No vet ever kisses Winnie she needs a muzzle on as soon as she goes through the door 🤣

Never known a vet to do that though it's pretty foolish, although the dentist that does my horses kisses them and calls them gorgeous 🤣🤣his a bit eccentric but they do genuinely love him as well so what he does obviously works.
Is it Jonathan? He always kissed Beau and shoved mints at him.
I was walking my dogs along a track in the woods last week and i spotted a woman but couldn't see her dog, I was intending to go left back home as she came towards me my dogs were just behind me.

Then as she came closer I saw her dog it was a ridgeback and it instantly growled and looked like it was going to run at me, she grabbed it and laughed it off saying she is fine really.

I said well I don't think she looked fine she growled and then looked like she was going to come at me, maybe put her on a lead when people and dogs are approaching surely that's safer.

Her reply was she doesn't need to be put on a lead 🤷‍♀️

I give up with some people.
An Estrella growled at Goose last week, I made a lot of noise to stop it, the owner said ‘He’s fine’. I replied that he didn’t sound fine, that’s a lot of noise from a very big dog. 🤬 Luckily Goose responds very well to being told to get on.
 
Is it Jonathan? He always kissed Beau and shoved mints at him.

An Estrella growled at Goose last week, I made a lot of noise to stop it, the owner said ‘He’s fine’. I replied that he didn’t sound fine, that’s a lot of noise from a very big dog. 🤬 Luckily Goose responds very well to being told to get on.
Yeah Jonathan 😂 his such a nice guy my horses love him.

I am starting to get nervous when I see certain big dogs as mine are small they wouldn't stand a chance ☹️
 
Yeah Jonathan 😂 his such a nice guy my horses love him.

I am starting to get nervous when I see certain big dogs as mine are small they wouldn't stand a chance ☹️
He was at our yard for a while, everyone loved him!

That’s why I could never rest if I had a small one, although the yorkie I met today reinforced that I need a scruffy terrier in my life.
 
I hate to say it but, it seems like so many recent graduate vets have no animal handling sense.

I have to admit that not long after I lost my Wojo we had a patient in that reminded me so much of him. It was a slow night and I had time to sit with him. At one point I forgot myself and put my arm around him. He was a good dog and just gave me a look. Maybe he knew how much I missed my boy.
 
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