JordanAng420
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These are some experiances some other vet techs on another forum have shared with me...It's all in a days work, I suppose.
"Today, we were covering phones for our satellite large animal office:
"I need to schedule an appointment with the large animal vet for my dog. He's a boxer, so he's a large animal. I need the appointment to be at 4:30pm today, no sooner or later. 4:30pm is the only time that I am available. Now, I don't have any money, but I would not at all be offended if you send me a bill."
"One of my personal favorites.....from a maltese breeder "purebred puppies don't get worms, don't let the vet give them harmful deworming medication". I thought, wow, how stupid of me to have been deworming all of those pure bred pups, I guess the "rice' and 'spaeghetti" poop is normal for them...."
"Another story passed on from a DVM here at the clinic...
One of her friends runs a Ferret rescue here in the city and technically, as I'm sure most of us know, ferrets do not have "obvious" penis' though, they do have one. On the ferret forum, a client was saying how her ferret absolutely LOVES it when she kisses his "belly button".... little does she know that it isn't his belly button.... "
"Years ago I was working the front desk at our ER practice and a couple came in carrying a Jack Russel puppy. They said the puppy was having diarrhea and as I led them to a room the guy adds, "Oh, and we want the vet to tell us if the puppy is a boy or a girl."
Now, he was cradling the puppy on her back, so I could clearly see that the puppy was a girl, but I tried to cover my surprise at his request. "Well sir, you have a girl puppy."
His response? "Are you sure!?!?! I'd rather have the doctor take a look and tell us for sure, you're just a nurse, right?"
Wow, right."
"I had a call about 15 minutes before close (as they do!) to say that their goldfish had a bean-bag foam ball stuck in its mouth. Well we all thought that this was a staff prank call. Told these `people' to come straight down as we were closing soon. They actually turned up with a goldfish in a bucket - it had sucked on a stone on the bottom of its tank and got it stuck in its mouth. Poor fish was suffocating. Vet got some forceps pulled it out, dropped the fish back in the bucket and said no charge!!! We were laughing for weeks over this one."
"Try this one, on the phone asking about her dog that has diarrhea.
"How do you tell the difference between boy dog poop and girl dog poop, because one of my dogs has diarrhea and I don't know which one? Is there a test for that?" I had to put this woman on hold so that I wouldn't laugh, I wanted to tell her, well girl dog poop is pink inside and boy dog poop is blue inside and the only way to know is stick your finger in it and see what color comes out."
"Today, we were covering phones for our satellite large animal office:
"I need to schedule an appointment with the large animal vet for my dog. He's a boxer, so he's a large animal. I need the appointment to be at 4:30pm today, no sooner or later. 4:30pm is the only time that I am available. Now, I don't have any money, but I would not at all be offended if you send me a bill."
"One of my personal favorites.....from a maltese breeder "purebred puppies don't get worms, don't let the vet give them harmful deworming medication". I thought, wow, how stupid of me to have been deworming all of those pure bred pups, I guess the "rice' and 'spaeghetti" poop is normal for them...."
"Another story passed on from a DVM here at the clinic...
One of her friends runs a Ferret rescue here in the city and technically, as I'm sure most of us know, ferrets do not have "obvious" penis' though, they do have one. On the ferret forum, a client was saying how her ferret absolutely LOVES it when she kisses his "belly button".... little does she know that it isn't his belly button.... "
"Years ago I was working the front desk at our ER practice and a couple came in carrying a Jack Russel puppy. They said the puppy was having diarrhea and as I led them to a room the guy adds, "Oh, and we want the vet to tell us if the puppy is a boy or a girl."
Now, he was cradling the puppy on her back, so I could clearly see that the puppy was a girl, but I tried to cover my surprise at his request. "Well sir, you have a girl puppy."
His response? "Are you sure!?!?! I'd rather have the doctor take a look and tell us for sure, you're just a nurse, right?"
Wow, right."
"I had a call about 15 minutes before close (as they do!) to say that their goldfish had a bean-bag foam ball stuck in its mouth. Well we all thought that this was a staff prank call. Told these `people' to come straight down as we were closing soon. They actually turned up with a goldfish in a bucket - it had sucked on a stone on the bottom of its tank and got it stuck in its mouth. Poor fish was suffocating. Vet got some forceps pulled it out, dropped the fish back in the bucket and said no charge!!! We were laughing for weeks over this one."
"Try this one, on the phone asking about her dog that has diarrhea.
"How do you tell the difference between boy dog poop and girl dog poop, because one of my dogs has diarrhea and I don't know which one? Is there a test for that?" I had to put this woman on hold so that I wouldn't laugh, I wanted to tell her, well girl dog poop is pink inside and boy dog poop is blue inside and the only way to know is stick your finger in it and see what color comes out."
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