Dog Day Morning
November 13th, 20027:00 am — Awake. Chuck has weird pimply thing on face. Not sure if it is:
- Zit
- Injury from playing hard with neighborhood dogs
- Rare insect bite
8:37 am — Verdict: Let’s watch it closely.
10:48 am — Utter terror. Blood! Running down his face! The digital camera is in the shop! Wait, who cares about digital camera? Get dog into car and to his veterinarian! Cell phone talkers get out of my way. Pot smokers who designed the address number system in Beverly Hills, you are so fired.
11:27 am — After wrestling with the Former Congressman to not say hello to every other dog in the waiting room and putting his ass in a down-stay (which worked until he army-crawled to sniff the nose of a scared Golden Retriever), we see the vet for 3.5 minutes. Chuck is oblivious to the wiping with peroxide. The Former Congressman has a huge raspberry on his nose, just inside of his right eye.
Vet says, “Possible cyst/tumor. Might have to excise, but not today. Give him antibiotics and ointment, twice a day. Call me next week. $87. Thank you. Come again.” o
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November 13th, 2002 at 7:30 pm
Gotta love vets. We do not call our cat “The $5k cat” for nothing.
November 13th, 2002 at 7:37 pm
I like the time that I asked ONE extra question during my cat’s visit and got charged another $50 for consultation time. Word of advice, don’t say any extra words while inside the exam room. Just nod and smile. It’s cheaper to ask the front desk who probably knows or will ask the doctor for you for free. Good luck poor Chuckles!
November 14th, 2002 at 2:40 am
It all depends on the vet you go to. I come from a family of them and I can tell you that my father has done more free surgery and comp work than you can shake a stick at for people whose animals need it done, but who can’t pay for it.
Don’t lump all vets together just because you got burned once. Think about what they have to go through. People don’t just not show up for Doctor’s appointments, but for vet appointments… heh. You’re lucky if you get a call. It’s ridiculous.
Gah. Don’t get me started on this rant. Suffice it to say, if you’re going to a vet who’s ripping you off, it’s most likely because you’re not out there looking for a new one. Plenty of the ones I know (NJ, NY, CA, ME, etc) do not work for what I’d call “exorbitant prices.”
November 14th, 2002 at 4:31 am
hey o. the usual consultation fee for our vet is around 50 bucks not including any meds. i once turned up barefoot, in my cruddiest clothes (it was during my exam period and we all know what that means - a loss of all vanity) and he halfed the consult fee and gave me free samples of the meds.
go the damsel-in-distress-with-sickly-cat-ew-look-at-the-puss dag vibe. all the way.
November 14th, 2002 at 6:33 am
After standard vet treatments did nothing to help my cat’s allergy/rash thing, I took him to a hollistic vet.
He said, and I kid you not, that Sam (my cat) was “yin deficient”.
I nearly cracked up in the exam room. But some obscene amount of money, herbs, and a new diet later, Sam is healthy. I love my hippie vet.
November 14th, 2002 at 7:58 am
My Vet is very good, but very expensive. Recently he’s become a celebrity. He’s in the Apple “Switch” Commercials and in the print ads. Guess we can look forward to $200 visits as the norm.
November 14th, 2002 at 8:45 am
Dude, you’re in the wrong business. Become a Vet and you and your beloved can live in the southland forever.
November 14th, 2002 at 9:49 am
unless you own your own practice, vets hardly make any money. it’s harder to get into vet school than it is medical school and most come out making in the mid 30’s starting salary.
November 15th, 2002 at 7:08 am
Your vet sounds like a crook! Mine would never charge that much for that nothing visit! Maybe it’s just that things are more expensive in CA, but I’d be looking for a new vet (that is if you stay in CA).
November 18th, 2002 at 9:32 am
You can buy pet health insurance
November 18th, 2002 at 11:49 am
my dog had the same problem.
a soldering iron took care of it just fine.
November 18th, 2002 at 2:10 pm
Dude, is this the same vet that told you to sedate your dog willy-nilly? I would stay way away from him / her / it.
November 18th, 2002 at 4:03 pm
Listen, Chuck’s totally fine from the Doggie Downer drops. He had a great road trip and totally was all “the rain drops arrrrrrrrre movvvvvvvvvvving sooooo slowwwwwwwwwwly acrosssss the windoooooow.”
This vet was very nice and treated Chuck with utmost respect and care. And yes, we’ll be using the drops again during the move.
November 19th, 2002 at 9:50 am
Have y’all thought about Cryogenic Storage for the dog. I hear it does wonders for wrinkles.
Lots of love roger