Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ever have a Dog that Bit the Vet?

We get a bunch of bites from vet's offices every week. I am sorry you are having to deal with this.

holy pluck, vets and techs get nipped all the time. They are drs, they can check each other out, x ray etc... OMG is this world gone to hell and a handbag..

We told em on our lab a few times at the end, as he got grouchy lets muzzle him. The one time they didn't a tech got nipped... told ya...

It goes with the territory.

If they would have cried rabies or ER I'd be finding a new clinic.

Never a bite incident. After the Dachshund had his anal glands painfully stripped by Dr.Bowser (real name) I was out in reception holding the dog while waiting to pay the bill. Doc walked around the corner into view and received a severe growl. Broke the whole place up including Tim.

My old dogs and cat were sweethearts at the vet office. The darn cat didn't even care about injections, temp measurements, even minor surgery to deal with the typical cat fight abscess.

Our dog just gets a really concerned look when they take his temperature.

Never nipped when he tore his nails, but they did have to put him out as he wouldn't hold still for it.

Bottom line is when the owner suggests a muzzle, you hand them the muzzle and tell them to put it on.

My uncle was a vet for 50-some years. When I was a teenager in the 70's I used to help him around the office when he was short staffed and on farm calls when he needed "someone with a strong back and weak mind" when the answering service called with an emergency in the middle of various family holiday celebrations. EDIT: It was the perfect excuse to get out of drying dishes.

Cats, dogs and sundry rodents, amphibians and birds considered his hands, arms and face a legitimate target, especially when pain was part of the equation. By the time he retired in the early 90's, both of his knees had been kicked out by horses. Half his toes were broke from cows stomping on them. His rotator cuff got torn from a cow going down while he was shoulder deep pulling a calf. A racehorse almost bit a couple of his fingers off while he was floating his teeth. A billy goat broke his ribs and punctured a lung once. He actually got anthrax in the 50's.

Every profession has "inherent risks" but not all veterinarians are cut from the same cloth.

A friend of mine is a dog groomer and she has been bit a few times, but nothing serious.

Good way to lose your insurance dog bite claims can cause insurer to cancel your policy. And others do not like to insure you on homeowners till problem pet is gone.

I worked at a veterinarian's when I was about 13.

We were a place that kept dogs for the ten day rabies observation period. A special kennel area and we were supposed to be very careful in there - of course.

We'd use these rope loop things to handle dogs, not the ones with a handle, just rope. If it was a dog we sere supposed to keep away from ourselves we were supposed to keep swinging them so the centrifugal force kept them away.

Well I got one of the observation dogs on the end of the rope one day and I could not keep that mean SOB away from me and I got nailed. They weren't particularly sympathetic since it was my failure. He was 9 days into his observation period and now we had to keep him another 10 days. But he died that night! Then they were really pissed I had gotten bitten because they had to autopsy the brain to check for rabies. thank God, it wasn't rabies and I didn't need the shots.

Had a dog bite the Vet. Vet said it wasn't the first time and said probably won't be the last.

No but I did.

Absolutely this! Getting bit, scratched, kicked, clawed, stomped, gored, rammed, head-butted, etc., etc., is part of the veterinary profession. They know (or should know) the risks and carry their own insurance.

She's lucky it wasn't her face.

Stupid is as stupid does.
Especially after the warning.

You admittedly knew your dog was a bite risk. Why in the [bleep] didn't YOU muzzle your dog before taking him in?! smh !!

Especially with it being a Rott...




Dave

cats er fer coyotes.

Same here. When we bring our 14 year old Cocker in for a trim she walks onto the scale.

Deep infection. Ever cat needs a coyote.

I have to say a lot of vets today and people that love animals in general are really fugking stupid.

My lab only wants to wag his tail, eat, and find birds. Nothing else. But he's 110lbs. and has an IQ that would make Blackheart look like a fugking astronaut. So when I take him to the vet I always ask "Do you want to muzzle him?" The answer is invariably "Why?" Gee... I don't know. Maybe because you have a 110lb's of retard staring at you and you want to fist-fguk its ass? I mean, JFC. It's a DOG.

Last time I was at the vet, I'm standing in the lobby/waiting area and some fat fugking dilldo abuser comes walking up and just starts scratching and rubbing the fugk out of my dog's head. I say "You're not making my life any easier by doing that."

By the look on her fat face you'd have thought I'd punched her in the sternum. I tell her "You really shouldn't approach strange dogs like that. Especially big ones."

She walked out. Everybody looks at me like I'm the ass hole.

Keep your fugking dickbeaters off the fugking dog until you have a read on everything.

As far as I'm concerned, AC's dog dig that girl a favor. Better to learn now on your arm than later on your pretty little face.

Nothing further.




Clark

This^^^. Treat with early and aggressively with a .22 before anyone gets bit.