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or something like that - who'll be watching? I will - and wil be back to discuss.

Although don't know what the epic problem is with scruffing a cat. I know I bloody well would, they are vicious and quick and I bet vet nurses etc get bloody tired of getting scrammed etc.

Anyhoo ....
 
It's making me want to cry already...I hate leaving my dogs at the vets anyway, and this is just making me feel ill :(
Luckily I do know and trust my vets and have worked there myself and know what its like behind the scenes...nothing like this programme. Even so its making me uneasy.
 
Not watching right now...we do place a lot of trust in our vets and I have found one that I am very, very happy with but past experiences have taught me to question everything.

I won't go on about the incident with B and his 'bad hips' diagnosed with a crystal ball and x-ray eyes...but I am glad I get things checked and double checked, less experienced and more trusting people may be done out of a lot of money and put their dogs through stuff they never needed done in the first place.
 
Please please don't think all practices are like this! I've been a vet nurse for 18yrs and we pride ourselves on our good care of our patients. Yes things don't always go according to plan, we are only human after all but we never treat animals with cruelty or disrespect. We do though have to occasionally handle them by scruffing etc but that is to stop them hurting themselves and us!
 
Supplementary question - how do we feel about other people having to restrain our dogs if and when the need arises?

The vets I left, were scared of B and always wanted to put a muzzle on him - in all honesty if someone scruffed him, especially if they were tense already, he would probably come at them. I've only done it once in an emergency and it was a very hairy moment indeed.
The reason I finally left was that they gave him enough sedation to choke a donkey for a skin scraping, because he was 'hyper' (well yeah, he'd been in a cage for four hours)

Current vet is superb with him, tickles on the belly on the floor etc, he's actually quite a sensitive dog, he needs confident handling, not scared or defensive handling.

But what would you feel was acceptable for your own dogs, if they were dicking about and causing nuisance to themselves or others?

I am not slagging all vets, not at all, mine now is a total diamond, but interesting to see what other people think.
 
Shocked at some of that but still very happy with my vets. They have never asked to muzzle any of the dogs, and always tell me they behave well. I think the fact that my dogs bounce in to the waiting room and greet the staff say it all. After they showed the bill on the programme with iv fluids at something like £120 I just checked Saffs bill, she had extra iv as she is an oldie and I am neurotic! The charge was £38.
 
I was charged £50 for IV fluids for Islay when she had her teeth done (she is the oldest, and I am MEGA paranoid :D) which was a bit steep but OK with me :)

I trust my vets implicitly - the vet nurses were just fantastic when Ellen was in there a few years ago and lost her leg - and besides, they know I would rip their bloody heads off if they did anything untoward with my dogs :p:D:D:D:D
 
I was looking at Tills and thinking of the morning she gave her blood to try and save Bernies life.....and then I was sickened by the fact Medivet (or their sister blood company they have set up) actually profiteer from blood..250-300 pound charge to the owner JUST FOR THE BLOOD!!
 
Was interesting, but it was kinda like a medivet witch hunt! They should have called it "shouldnt happen at a medivet" - clearly trying to boost ratings with the title they went for, and it worked!!

Hasnt made me concerned over my own pets, the nurses and vets (there are no "trainees" only qualified nurses) at the place i go to are very professional, i cant imagine them acting stupid like those girls were.
 
I didnt really like the bit when that vet at the end (that has now been struck off!) was holding the cat by the scruff of the neck in the air whilst jabbing a syringe in it and walking around with it!!!.... made my skin crawl...

If I found out my vet had done anything like that to any of my animals I wouldnt be held liable for my actions... :(
 
I'm no going to defend Medivet as there are obvious flaws in each of their branches it appears and they charge over the odds for everything,i am however going to defend our lovely little surgery that i work at,we pride ourselves on treating all the animals as if they are our own,even the cheeky feisty ones!! I do have to restrain animals in my job but it's either for their own safety or mine,the people on the documentary tonight totally over stepped the mark,hitting an animal is disgraceful.
 
I didn't watch the show, I think it would probably upset me entirely too much. My vet is wonderful with all of my animals :D Especially Tina who is very wary of people she doesn't know.

CC, having done work experience at your vet, I can confirm that behind the scenes the animals are treated like the nurses own pets. They really dote on them!
 
I was that horrified, I could not eat my tea I had jsut prepared, I felt sick with anger:mad: esp at the cat she was luggin around like a puppet after the vet tormented it with the clipper shoving it in it's face:( in no hurry to get it tubed, then the nurse admitting she would kill someone for treating her cat like that:confused:
and the lad who belted a sharp-pei thats had jsut had a major op FFS, it was doing bog all exept struggling a little and looked like it was being restrained by an incompitent idiot, infact most of the restraining was dreadful, thats is def a case of a "in it for the profit vets" expand and take staff on at the rate of lightening and literally let them copy from other staff and give no formal training, so just basically jsut let them get on with it, with vets more than happy to let it happen.

This is def not the norm:(
 
GinaB said:
CC, having done work experience at your vet, I can confirm that behind the scenes the animals are treated like the nurses own pets. They really dote on them!
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I don't doubt that for a second, the way G is with him (rolling around on the floor snurfling behind his ears :p) makes me go a bit squishy in the middle :o the girls all adore B, he always jumps up on the counter to say hi and they always tell me how lovely he is when they bring him out for me if he's been in for anything.
Much better than edging around with their backs to the wall clutching a basket muzzle :rolleyes:
 
CaveCanem said:
I don't doubt that for a second, the way G is with him (rolling around on the floor snurfling behind his ears :p) makes me go a bit squishy in the middle :o the girls all adore B, he always jumps up on the counter to say hi and they always tell me how lovely he is when they bring him out for me if he's been in for anything.
Much better than edging around with their backs to the wall clutching a basket muzzle :rolleyes:
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He really is great with them isn't he? I loved it when he was in as even though I was only doing work experience and I know a lot of others in vets didn't get to do/watch much he involved me in everything and really explained it all as well :)

The nurses are all lovely, in fact one of them owns a lovely GSD as well who came in while I was there. He was gorgeous :D
 
The last time he was in for a check up (following his 'orrible skin infection over Christmas) I was paying up and one of the nurses walked by, gave him a pat and said 'wow, you can't smell him from two miles away any more!' :p
 
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