Stupidest thing you've called the vet for?

[Auslander]

I'll go first. Clipped Alfs legs out, and had a hissy fit because I thought he had mites...


The specks were actually grass seeds...

 

[Indy]

Not the horses but many years ago I had a German Shepherd Dog. We found a lump, thinking it was a tumour one emergency vet appointment later we left with a small clump of matted hair we'd missed.

 

[milliepops]

Nice to have good news... shame about the bill

One livery yard called the vet for my horse, called me to say that's what they'd done as they thought she was collicking. i was 30 mins drive away and belted over as fast as i could. she could see the hunt a few fields away and had sweated up and was shaking with excitement. Hey ho, it's the better way around but she didn't need that buscopan!

 

[PapaverFollis]

I called the vet because Granny horse was shivering. She was cold. I'd somehow not noticed that the temperature had dropped, thought she was colicky and took hay off her which made it worse. ? To be fair, it looked weird enough that the vet took full bloods! Or maybe he was just trying to soothe the hysterical owner ??. I put a fleece on her and he said it was fine to give her hay and low and behold... the symptoms disappeared like magic. ? What an idiot!!!

 

[fiwen30]

Not a horse, but I once took my cat to the vet, full of concern, because he’d been over grooming the backs of his rear legs till the fur was getting thin, and I’d found a lump up near the top of one of his thighs - it was quite sizeable, somewhat squishy, and he very much didn’t want me touching it. Thought it had to be a malignant growth or a tumour of some sort.

We weren’t seen by our usual vet - instead it was the most gorgeous person I’ve ever seen, who just also happens to be a vet, I guess. He listens intently to my concerns, examines my cat, examines him a bit more, furrows his brow (vet, not cat), clears his throat awkwardly, and informs me that what I’ve been squishing and poking it is not a life threatening rumour - it’s his ‘empty scrotum’, which apparently just wasn’t tucked away as neatly as it could’ve been when he was neutered!

Absolutely. Mortified.

Worst and best vet appointment I’ve ever had.

 

[Reacher]

Wasn’t there an episode of the Yorkshire vet where someone got the vet to their dog which had a tumour on its belly...which turned out to be a lump of something matter up in its fur?

 

[windand rain]

a marshmallow I think but a sweetie of some sort.

Wasn’t there an episode of the Yorkshire vet where someone got the vet to their dog which had a tumour on its belly...which turned out to be a lump of something matter up in its fur?

My oh nearly called a vet to my connie filly he thought she had broken her leg. I arrived and sorted her leg strap which had got caught her leg up under her belly. She was stiff for a day or two

 

[FlyingCircus]

Well I've just spent about 2k to be told my horse is completely sound, ulcer free and is just more smart than I am.


Cry.

 

[Archangel]

Mine is the other way round. I took a poorly hen to the vet.
They x-rayed her and said she had an oval shaped tumour.
I gave the vet a wtf look and said "it's an egg".

 

[Tiddlypom]

Wasn’t there an episode of the Yorkshire vet where someone got the vet to their dog which had a tumour on its belly...which turned out to be a lump of something matter up in its fur?

I was just remembering that! Julian was the vet, Billy the shih tzu was the dog, Betty was the owner and the suspicious looking lump was a boiled mint sweet stuck to the fur!

I'm surprised that something like this hasn't happened to me, because I always prefer to call the vet out if I'm not happy with my motley crew. Or maybe it has, and I'm blocking it out .

 

[The Irish Draft 2022]

My horse went lame on her front foot for a few days . so I got a vet turned out she was completely sound and they said it’s was only something very minor bruise on foot . So I found out my horse is just a drama queen .

 

[Reacher]

I was just remembering that! Julian was the vet, Billy the shih tzu was the dog, Betty was the owner and the suspicious looking lump was a boiled mint sweet stuck to the fur!

I'm surprised that something like this hasn't happened to me, because I always prefer to call the vet out if I'm not happy with my motley crew. Or maybe it has, and I'm blocking it out .

That’s it, I remember now ?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Wasn’t there an episode of the Yorkshire vet where someone got the vet to their dog which had a tumour on its belly...which turned out to be a lump of something matter up in its fur?

Yes ? a boiled sweet

 

[Parrotperson]

not a hysterical owner (although.....!) but a completely hysterical drama queen of a gelding

Friend took him hunting. Phoned me mid afternoon. Cold I collect urgently and take them to the vets. He's on three legs and would put the forth down... looks like a broken leg.

Anyway he loads on three legs (don't ask but he did it ok!) and off we go t the vets, horse still muddy from hunting

Explain to vet we think leg broken as wont put it down. He walks horse up. Not weight bearing at all. Friend is now crying because she fears the worst.

Vet takes horse into treatment room comes out 5 mins later with horse happily walking on all fours and looking v pleased with himself.

Vet says "we washed his legs of to see what was going on and he happily put it down and is fine."

he didn't like the mud. He was a hunter and HE DIDN"T LIKE THE MUD!!

we did feel stupid.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I almost took a young pale yellow (cream) Lab pup to the vets because she had something odd and scabby at the base of her ear. Fortunately, I realised in time that it was her breakfast porridge that she had spread up her face and nobody had licked it off!

We were once surprised and concerned that a Rottweiler was attacking her best friend, a Lab of almost exactly the same age, they had grown up together with never a cross word. Lab was screaming, we separated them and found that the Rott was trying to remove a very sticky toffee from the Lab's undercarriage!

 

[Parrotperson]

I almost took a young pale yellow (cream) Lab pup to the vets because she had something odd and scabby at the base of her ear. Fortunately, I realised in time that it was her breakfast porridge that she had spread up her face and nobody had licked it off!

We were once surprised and concerned that a Rottweiler was attacking her best friend, a Lab of almost exactly the same age, they had grown up together with never a cross word. Lab was screaming, we separated them and found that the Rott was trying to remove a very sticky toffee from the Lab's undercarriage!

?????????

 

[tda]

I once took our younger dog to the vets, I was convinced he had a stone stuck in his teeth 7 miles there in the dark, panicking, vet looked and said nothing there?
He didn't charge me......?

 

[Cloball]

Took my cat to the vet in the middle of the night because I thought he had a blocked urethra (he has form) where he promptly peed all over the vet and the floor. She didn't charge me ?

 

[Red-1]

I twice had Mr Red's horse to the vet for a tendon scan. Once was after I had evented him in mud and the other time after hunting.

Both times, the tendon was fine. Both times, he got mud fever 2 days later.

Yep, scanned for mud fever.

Twice!

The horse was a drama queen.

 

[Laurac13]

Called the vet out as horse started drinking loads of water in his stable
Turns out he had a leaking water trug ?

 

[ycbm]

Called the vet because I thought my 5 year olds corner baby teeth were stuck and blocking the new ones. He said "call me back if they haven't dropped out in a month". They did.
.

 

[ArklePig]

Rang the out of hours cause my guinea pig had a tiny cut on her toe bean. Also posted a thread on here ? the vet told me over the phone to dip it in flour and she'd be grand. I did and she was. In this case I'm the drama queen!

 

[Sealine]

Called vet after I found my usually stoic, never sore or sorry horse on 3 legs in his stable one morning. I phoned the surgery demanding the top vet and fearing the worst. Vet arrived and had a feel and quickly found a very sore and scabby cracked heel. I felt relieved, embarrassed and stupid all at the same time. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it.

To be fair my horse had a lot of feather at the time but I felt awful for not noticing it and letting it get that bad.

 

[little_critter]

Called the vet out as horse started drinking loads of water in his stable
Turns out he had a leaking water trug ?

Didn’t call the vet but I had it in my head that my horses preferred the pink trug of water over the purple trug because I had to fill the pink one much more often.
The pink one had a slow leak.

 

[AdorableAlice]

My vet is very used to my hysterics, but the call for colic for my very elderly champion, sent her into warp factor 10 to get to me, tears on the phone, me saying make sure you have what you need to send him on his way, sobbing my heart out.

Half hour later she was up to her elbow removing maggots from his sheath. Obviously a vet was very much needed, but the pair of us sighed a huge sigh of relief.

 

[Bionic Boy]

I took the wrong cat to the vets. I was convinced that Albert was the poorly one as he is a bit weird and eats all sorts. Poor boy had his temperature taken, an examination and some tablets for me to get home to see Alfie throwing up. Queue second visit to the vets with the correct cat.

 

[fiwen30]

Glad you all think my squishing the poor cat’s scrotum was funny! The very handsome vet actually charged me to tell me that, to add insult to injury!

Heard a story about a woman who took her elderly cat to the vet as she was concerned it hadn’t been passing faeces for a few days. Much expensive investigation, and worry, later, and it turned out her dog had just started to steal the poop out of the litter tray when she was at work. The poor cat was incredibly disgruntled, but perfectly fine.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

not a hysterical owner (although.....!) but a completely hysterical drama queen of a gelding

Friend took him hunting. Phoned me mid afternoon. Cold I collect urgently and take them to the vets. He's on three legs and would put the forth down... looks like a broken leg.

Anyway he loads on three legs (don't ask but he did it ok!) and off we go t the vets, horse still muddy from hunting

Explain to vet we think leg broken as wont put it down. He walks horse up. Not weight bearing at all. Friend is now crying because she fears the worst.

Vet takes horse into treatment room comes out 5 mins later with horse happily walking on all fours and looking v pleased with himself.

Vet says "we washed his legs of to see what was going on and he happily put it down and is fine."

he didn't like the mud. He was a hunter and HE DIDN"T LIKE THE MUD!!

we did feel stupid.

This had me howling!! At least the vet saw what you saw, if he had walked off the trailer as if nothing was wrong that would have been hideously embarrassing!

 

[Caol Ila]

Years ago, I took Gypsum and my friend's youngster to a show in my trailer. The trailer did not have full partitions. The parking lot was lumpy and bumpy, and the youngster must have scrabbled about for balance. When we took the horses off the trailer, Gypsum's leg was bleeding, and she hopped backwards on three legs. I thought the world was ending and called the show vet, who wasn't on site, because it was just a wee unaffiliated show. 40 minutes later, the vet showed up, and by then, the horse was weight-bearing without a care in the world. The wound was only a minor, superificial scrape. The vet was very unimpressed at the emergency Sunday morning call-out for this.

The trailer also went lame. As we were resignedly loading up the horses after all the faff, we noticed that it had a flat tyre. Balls. Then we realised that we had no jack. My truck had been bought secondhand a few years beforehand, and I'd never had any reason to look for the jack. Turned out some douchebag previous owner had probably nicked it, because it did not have one. In a giant step back for feminism, myself and my (female) friends had to enlist the help of some guy to fix our flat.

It was not a good day. I bought a jack and ate that $80 vet bill.

 

[exracehorse]

Not vet .. but a friend of a friend took her cat to our yard as it was pissing on the bed. She thought it would have a lovely life living in the hay barn. Cat legged it. Never to be seen again. She returned home to find her dog squatting on her duvet. Doing a wee. Wasn’t even the cat at all! She felt terrible. Fast forward five years. Same cat was dumped at Bury Stray Cat Fund. And returned to the woman.