Sara, the first dog I took to my present vets was a wolfhound. John looked at me with an absolutely straight face and said "OK, now lift her up onto the table while I get the stepladder." Took me a moment to work out that he was joking :-).

One never expects a vet/medical dr. with a sense of humour ;) :D What a shocker ;)

You obvious haven't met my vets or my other half Sara! Mind you, I do sometimes wonder what patients make of this fella with no white coat, a shaggy beard and cartoon socks :-). (The nurses supply the socks - today's effort are electric blue, and say 'Sex Appeal - Please Give Generously'!)

How come you know so much about your'e vet socks ?????????????
:D
Liz ;)

He possibly wears 'high waters'? (pants ;) ) :d :d

When I used to take my Golden Retriever the vet wouldn't let us leave till he'd been down on his knees and given Louis a cuddle first :)
Dot

When Chienne was a puppy, I got spooked by the vet. He liked her....way too much :rolleyes:
Seriously, the first time we brought her in, he examined her, stepped back and said, "She is a REALLY nice dog. Are you sure you want to keep her?" At the time, I thought he was kidding.

After her puppy shots were over, several months passed. I took her in to be spayed. That afternoon we went to pick her up, he was holding her and didn't want to give her up. Even hubby thought he was trying to take her away from us.

I never returned. Even though it was a very nice vet practise. I just didn't appreciate his over-appreciation of my dog. I still wonder that if hubby hadn't been there, would I have had to fight the vet for her to come home??? :Rolleyes: ;) :O :P :D

When I took *Delores* to meet my vet for the first time and her first jab, he stood back and took a good,long, hard look at her and then said in a very calm and measured voice .. "In thirty years of practising veterinary medicine, I have only, ever been bitten once ... and that was by a German Wirehaired Pointer bitch" :D lol

hi eog,
i have just changed vets and he is great, and a sense of humour, it was worth the £25.00 to have a good laugh, he had his black lab there as i had last app of the day, he said "don't we think of our dogs as little people until you see them eating cat s*** then they want to give us a big slobbery kiss" i thought you are my kind of man, won't tell you how the rest of the convo went, but there are some very humourous ones out there it's just finding them, regards tina

No by all means i'm not saying don't take your bitch to a vet if you think there may be a problem,but some people take the bitch 2 weeks into her pregnancy for bloodtests and then scans later on & there is absolutely no need for it really.I worked in a veterinary practice for over a year and have seen many a bitch come in to see the vet so they could tell the over eager owner whether or not their dog was pregnant and i knew of quite a few who were pregnant at the start but after 6 weeks there was nothing there & the vet put it down to stress from the visit to his surgery.
A lady with a Neopolitan Mastiff tried for years to breed her bitch but every time she brought her to the vets she would turn into a shivering wreck she would always be in pup but at the 6 week scan there was no puppies.The vet said she was reabsorbing the puppies due to stress.
So the vet told the lady to leave the bitch once she was mated and not fetch her in unless there was a problem. Unfortunately with the first litter there was only 2 pups born and the bitch turned on them after a few days and killed them both. But the bitch was mated again 1 year later at 6 years old & the bitch had 11 healthy blue & mahogony pups although they all had to be hand reared as the bitch did not like being a mother at all.But i take my hat off to the lady for hand rearing 11 large babie's to 8 weeks old & she done them all proud!
Bye
Shonagh.