What's the worst thing your dog has ever done at the vets?

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Took my two unruly Fido's to the vet yesterday for their annual vaccs; both behaved totally deplorably.

Little'un had to be muzzled (no way was he havin' nasty needles stuck into HIM). Once in, both proceeded to bark, growl, play with their leads (Little'Un chewed his in two), and start a squabble between the two of them. Vet couldn't make himself heard over the racket, everyone in the waiting room thought that they were both being murdered.

Someone had brought in a rabbit in a portable box, plus a cat in similar circumstance. So they both thought (naturally) that the rabbit was there for their personal consumption; and the cat was fair game for baiting, and I really had to work hard to keep them under control so a massacre didn't take place (but seriously, wish that somehow some better arrangement could be made so that vets waiting rooms DIDN't have predators AND prey animals in such a close proximity - have always thought this is so very unfair and so very frightening for the poor wee animals:()

Its not that my dogs hate the vets, far from it, they both enjoy the attention, and relish it. Which is probably why they always behave so deplorably. I left the place absolutely shattered, felt like I'd just been taking two very naughty and noisy children shopping and they'd behaved badly, or heaven forbid, to church.

So....... it got me wondering: what's the worst thing your dog has ever done at the vets?

C'mon, fess up.
 
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Weeeelllll, my rottie peed on the vet's trouser leg!

He also peed in the water bowl at a puppy training class and up the curtains of the village hall it was held in.
 
R once took several bites out of a decorative succulent plant thing without me noticing then yacked up a chewed green lump of it on the floor.

I now work in the same practice and it's my job to take care of the sad lopsided waiting room plant. :o

Lots of clients' dogs pee on various things in the waiting room, many don't bother to tell us! Nervous wees are of course perfectly excusable but we're talking blatant leg cocking up food display stands.
 
The worst thing mine have done is drag me in, they have always behaved impeccabley for vaxing and nail trimming. When Darcey grazed her eye on a bramble she didnt want the vet looking at it, she was not aggressive but wriggled so much she was sedated as it was important she kept very still.
 
My current 2 girls nothing bad - they are very little and easily supressed!!

My old Springer, every time we went to the vets he weed - but he didn't "lift his leg" he squatted like a girl. Bless him
 
one of mine screams if a vet/nurse touches him but only when we are in a consult room or the kennels. it is very embarrassing, especially as i work there and sometimes he comes to work and anyone can touch him behind reception but no where else.

OP why dont you take one dog in at a time as they are likely to be winding each other up
 
All of mine over the years would have cats or small dogs so if the waiting room is busy I sit in and go and get them out of the car when I am called.

Probably the young one striding purposefully into the surgery and trotting up and down the corridor sound as a bell after I'd called vet in tears at 11.30pm saying he'd jammed his leg in under the bookcase, was hopping lame, holding his leg and screaming and I thought he'd shattered his leg and could she be there in 20 minutes.

Two years of screaming-dying-swan-acts later, I am a bit wiser to him :p we had a visiting trainer last week who exclaimed 'Oh my gawd, he's such a BABY!'
 
When my pointer got castrated i got a phone call saying for him to be picked up asap as they couldnt stop his crying (suffers sepration anxiety), when i arrived they were so grateful.
 
My girl has a total personality transplant every time we go to the vets, she tries to attack anything in the waiting room, if there isnt anything to attack she just howls and howls and wont even let the vet close enough to stroke her without snapping and growling at them. Not sure what her issue with vets is, she once had a muzzle on too tight when she had her nails clipped but thats been the only bad visit so you would think in time she would get over it but she still gets herself in such a state, like CC I leave her in the carnow till they are ready for her but always feel like they dont believe me when I tell them that she is really friendly and well behaved everywhere else.
 
fankino04 said:
My girl has a total personality transplant every time we go to the vets, she tries to attack anything in the waiting room, if there isnt anything to attack she just howls and howls and wont even let the vet close enough to stroke her without snapping and growling at them. Not sure what her issue with vets is, she once had a muzzle on too tight when she had her nails clipped but thats been the only bad visit so you would think in time she would get over it but she still gets herself in such a state, like CC I leave her in the carnow till they are ready for her but always feel like they dont believe me when I tell them that she is really friendly and well behaved everywhere else.
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they believe you we see it a lot at the vets where i work. many dogs just get stressed cos the owner gets stressed or because they can smell the fear from a previous dog.

last time my little man had pre op bloods taken he screamed and screamed so they asked me to hold him and he was a s quiet as a lamb, on the day of the surgery the vet started the clippers when he was nowhere near my dog (to check they were working ok and to see the dogs response to them) yep said dog started screaming then too. crazy thing is my dogs boarded at the vets for 6 weeks when i last moved they were no problem ate everything were great for the nurses to handle but he is the biggest baby alive
 
The greyhound was in over night and half the day after. He howled/ screamed / barked the whole time.
I was told he finally settled about 5 mins before I came to get him, then started up as soon as he heard my voice at reception.
 
Henry loves the vets, they give him biscuits;)

Our old dog used to pee - girly pees, he just got nervous:rolleyes:
 
Jojo my pointer is exactly the same!! They always phone me to come get him ASAP and I can hear him wailing in the background. Pathetic!
 
Thank god it isn't only my dog! Freya's favourite thing in the whole world is meeting new people but as soon as you get into the examination room she puts on an act that she is an abused child... tucks herself right up and shivers. She also screams the place down if they look in her ears (she's never had an ear infection and is fine with me cleaning them) and acts like she's dying when she has injections. I don't think the vet believes me when I say she's actually a very friendly dog!

I could understand if she'd ever been there for anything nasty but she's only ever been in for check ups and vaccs and has never been muzzled! Little Drama Queen! :)
 
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The greyhound was in over night and half the day after. He howled/ screamed / barked the whole time.
I was told he finally settled about 5 mins before I came to get him, then started up as soon as he heard my voice at reception.
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Ha ha forgot this but when mine boards at work he is fine but the last time he had a scale and polish there were three staffies in the kennels and him(part staff) the howling was amazing and it was him leading it-he came up to reception early that evening to shut him up
 
The last time I was in (ironically to get my old boy PTS) there was a dog howling away in the back and I said 'I bet that is xxx' - my best friend's dog, and it was!!
 
Jo Jo and cl I told my vet it would happen with H! They took my word for it so the breed must have a reputation! They had me drop him off and did him straight away then as soon as he came round enough to begin to get upset they called for me to take him home! He was very very wobbly and unsteady!! I did get a grilling from the receptionist when I arrived to get him because she thought he wouldn't be ready! I told her the vets plan and she was very surprised, so can't happen often.
 
We had a rescued German Shepherd who was terrified of the vets and would shake like a jelly in the waiting room and howl the place down. Very embarrassing in front of all the brave as lions lap dogs behaving impeccably.
 
My beagle hid under the chairs in the waiting room and refused to come out....the vet nurse team ended up lifting the chairs so we could make our appt :o

He's also taken to 'planting' if we head to the vets. We have to divert and go past it and then come back on ourselves else he twigs on. Worst time was whilst crossing a road, he just froze and refused to budge! Thankfully it was the middle of the day so not particularly busy but I was mortified!
 
JRT has to be muzzled, even though hes 105 and has no teeth. :D

My GSD is a bit nervy and wont let vet poke or prod but vaccs are fine. He just generally bark and has a go at anything else in the waiting room - they all thinks hes a savage but hes a lamb really.:rolleyes:
 
Weed in the (pregnant) vet's face :o

I have no idea why he was so appalling, he had always been fine but from that moment, he was horrified at being picked up, wouldn't do cuddles, growled if someone loomed over him :confused:
 
Jasper HATES his claws being clipped, so always has to be muzzled and held down - he is such a friendly chap normally, funnily, his tail is wagging along with the growling!

I had a foster pup that needed second injections and a microchip - he turned into a growling, snapping devil-dog. He had to be muzzled and it took three of us to hold him for the injections - then when it came to the microchip, they had to get another vet and two more nurses, and I was asked to leave the room. I could hear him growling, barking, howling and people saying "steady, steady" "good boy" and one "you little ******". When he finally came out, he looked as if nothing had happened and was a happy, waggy little chap again. Thank heavens I never had to take him back to the vet again - he was adopted shortly after.
 
My young lab thinks that people are fantastic, and the vet even more so as she gets a treat from her. When we have taken her in as she's been properly poorly, she gets to the vet and is soooo excited and "talking" away to everyone, tail wagging non-stop. Hmmm looks sooo ill! We usually have to hold her mouth shut so they can listen to her heart & lungs!

When she was a tiny pup and went to the puppy class at the vets, we let them off their leads and she hurtled across the room, dived head first into giant stainless steel water bowl, proceeded to splash around in it and then tip it over. Cue small tsunami. Everyone else's pups were sat timidly by their owners, including the enormous great dane pup that she scared by being so playful it ended up sat on its owners lap. She got a certificate for being the most playful!
 
My last weimaraner had to be picked up early from operations as well.

Current weimer (11.5months old) has only been 4 times (2 x vax, 2 x visits for campylobacter) but treats it as an extra opportunity for cuddles and playtime. The last time he was in the vets, he was 14 weeks old and being a weimer puppy, terribly cute. He is now 34kg and can no longer be described as cute, not by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Beastie is a model patient for the vet, surprisingly given her grumpus status!

Jess went for the vet :( she gets muzzled now. Vet just said fear aggression but he really likes her!
 
My lad loves everyone so vets are normally in danger of being sent flying as he licks them to death :D The receptionists love him back so now (if I'm not on the ball) he'll drag me over to the desk and jump on it to get his treat, once the receptionist wasn't quick enough so he jumped over the desk and into her lap :o
 
CaveCanem said:
Two years of screaming-dying-swan-acts later, I am a bit wiser to him :p we had a visiting trainer last week who exclaimed 'Oh my gawd, he's such a BABY!'
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Ha! One of mine (entire male, of course!) has been dubbed by my vet as the Frank Spencer of the canine world! Probably his greatest claim to fame has been getting his penis stuck on a barbed wire fence! :eek:

He has also been used on a course at the local college on canine husbandry; this involved an afternoon of bandaging and splinting. At the end when everyone had left and all bandages had been removed, the tit came hopping over on three legs holding up a front paw going 'mum, it really hurts!' :confused:

Then there was the time that another male was lame, visited vets a couple of times with no joy, finally saw senior vet who was determined to find something in his paw. As it turned out, he was right....there was a glass shard that had travelled up the pad and into the leg and was periodically nicking the tendon. Unfortunately, said vet decided to dig a bit deeper (without anaesthetic!) and dog, table, vet, vet nurse and I ended on the floor as dog got 2/3rds of the way out of a small push out window before I grabbed it by its dock! To this day, that dog remembers that vet and grumbles like hell if he sees him, but is the nicest person to know otherwise.
 
My weimaraner bitch offered out a mastiff with a cone of shame on in the waiting room. I had to drag her back into the consulting room whilst they cleared out and when we came out of the vets there was a ring of dogs and owners standing at a safe distance, waiting to come in, whilst my hell hound hung off the end of her lead threatening everything and screaming blue murder.

She isn't usually like this, honest.
 
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