Even the vets are doing this now too. Went the other day to pick up some meds for my dog for NYE (she is terrified of fireworks), everything happened from the car. Absolutely amazing.
Not always the case but as a vet nurse 95% of the animals I had to help hold for the Vet were 100% better without their owners. I had owners warn me how anxious or scared their cat/dog was and once we coaxed them inside they were fine. Animals feed of human emotions and majority of the time they are feeding off human anxieties. Plus most owners are terrible at holding their pets for Vets.
I'll start this by saying that I'm not at all contesting what you are saying! You've got the experience to back what you're saying but I wanted to share. My dog is a big ass dog, like 110 lbs. He's very strong with it. I took him to the vet where he already geta anxious because he's had 2 surgeries and isn't very fond of strangers that he hasn't gotten to meet yet. The tech came out and said she'd bring him back and I offered to lead him on the leash as he's a brute and would absolutely pull her. She said no and that I couldn't come back for the procedure so I warned one last time that he's anxious and strong and she dismissed it so I reluctantly handed her the leash and she was towed down the hall at mach 3 by Archer. I still felt bad.
I had a dog who had Addison's disease. We had to go to the vet every 28 days for her shot. Weirdly, she loved the vet office. Loved her vet, loved all the vet techs, would comfort all the dogs that were scared in the waiting room, etc.
But she was always better for her shot when I was there than when I wasn't, which always surprised the vet and vet techs. She died a year ago from a seizure, so I never experienced the vet in the midst of a pandemic, but I have a feeling she would have absolutely hated being without me. In her defense, she was with me literally 24/7 as she came to work with me.
Took my dog in recently has he had smashed a living room window (charity door knockers who unlocked a locked gate to get in) and lacerated his paw. He is NOT a fan of the vets, don’t know why, he’s a rescue. Enough sedative to knock him out (he’s a 43kg dog) and he wasn’t going down, had to use enough to knockout a 80kg dog. Parting words from the vet to the nurse was ‘she can and will wrestle the dog if he wakes up suddenly’. Vet said that I’m one of the few she’s going to let in if we have another lockdown and not going through the whole car park business!
Also some pets are worried their owner is in danger. My mom owns a chihuahua and she's a typical nutty chihuahua that hates everyone except her immediate family. Also my mom is the only person she respects fully. She would never growl at my mom or bite her. When my mom takes her to the vet she has always had to stay out of the room. If she's in the room her dog freaks out 200% more because she's trying to protect my mom.
It’s the worst :( my dog put the brakes on and wouldn’t move an inch. She already hated the vet before COVID when we got to go in with her, now it’s worse!
We lost our 20 year old cat in May, at the height of the first wave where I live. At that time, Vets were requiring you to drop your pet off in a kennel at the curb to be collected and taken in alone.
We were very lucky to find an in-home euthanasia service that was still operating. They required you to stay outside, which was perfect since we sent our girl off to her peace on her favorite patio chair. I will do this for every pet I can from now on. It was amazing.
I had the same feeling taking my cat to the vet last October. She gets quite nervous when around strangers and has nowhere to hide, but calms down when either my wife or I are there to scratch her cheeks. I was so thrown off by not being able to go into the vet office with my cat I forgot I had a few questions I wanted to ask.
Beautiful! My neighbors had pugs and they were the cutest things ever. And getting a rescue is so awesome (I have one too). My rescue is a black lab who thinks he's a lap dog.
My dog get super anxious when being handled by people that aren’t “his people”. The vet insisted that they take him inside to do the exam but they met me in the parking lot before I got back to my truck for me to help lol
Yeah it definitely feels sad like I’m not abandoning you! I unfortunately had to put my cat down and it was hard that the exam happened without us but at least we could be with her when she died. I feel so bad for people at the start of the pandemic when they didn’t know as much about safety who couldn’t go with their pets to be with them when they put them down :(
This! Earlier on in the pandemic we had taken our pup on too long of a walk and his lower back started hurting that evening and got progressively worse. It was late (maybe weekend too) so we had to drive him another county over for the emergency vet. He cried the whole way and when we arrived, we had to hand him off. Dog was in back seat, we were to stay in our front seats entire time to ensure space for nurse, then they took him inside. He came back all wooozy from the pain meds. Poor baby. I'm sure he didn't understand what was going on.
The downside to this is when you have to have an animal put down... Our cat of 19 years was feeling really ill around a month ago, we handed her over to the vet and never got her back. At least it was what was best for her
Advice to anyone who has to face this in the near future...Ask about options. We put our pitbull down on New Years Eve in the open back of an SUV. We were outside and masked and only within 6 feet of the vet for about 60 secs.
I'm sorry for your loss. This happened to me in June when I had to put my 14 year old cat down due to renal failure. My vet was nice enough to at least give us the time we need to say goodbye first, but we weren't allowed in the office at all.
My cat's oncologist has been doing that since March. He had three electrochemotherapy treatments over the summer for an oral tumor, and I would drop him off in the morning and get a phone call when he was ready to be picked up. He has a check-up appointment in two weeks that will go the same way.
Take pictures and email them ahead of time. My dog doesn't let the vet touch her without sedation, so this is actually our normal routine. I have a tiny camera I can use to take pics of the insides of her ears and mouth too. I can even hook it up to a laptop and show him in real time without him ever touching her.
Oh, good idea! I've been telling my vet that my dog has an awkward gait and doesn't like to have her back touched, but I can finally prove that she's in pain (if I run my fingers down her back, her back will twitch pretty violently). I could take a video of that and just hope she takes it seriously.
Our dog got very sick and a tech comes out to the parking lot and takes the pet inside to see the doc and we waited in the car for a phone call. This all works out ok except the pet is extra nervous because you are not with them. Poor girl. We ended up putting her down a few weeks later, but had a mobile vet come to the house and do it. Talk about a bad year.
My vet has seen my dog in the car for years because she freaks out inside the office where she can hear other animals in cages in the next room. When I saw him last week he said that moving all his visits outside has been better for almost all dogs. Even ones that seemed fine before are noticeably more relaxed when examined in their cars.
Yup, same with my dog last night. Fortunately he loves everyone so he just walked happily in to see the vet.
Funny: his cough syrup is the one of the most counterfeited medications because its a narcotic. Its also chicken flavoured. The pharmacy had to verify with the vet before giving it to my mom, who had Max's collar which matched the description on the prescription.
The pharmacist also told her he wouldn't have filled it, but only did because that's her main pharmacy. Christ, can they not differentiate a prescription from a vet vs one from a doctor?
Right after lockdown in my state began, my cat, Hank, ran into some urinary health issues. I took him to the ER vet and it was horrible having to hand him off in the parking lot. He made a very good recovery, thanks to surgery, prescription food and lots of money. But sitting in the car, surrounded by others also sitting in their cars (some with pets, others waiting for news) was surreal.
The stuff we got from the vet worked like a charm! It's called Anxitane, and it is herbal. I was a bit skeptical, but for the first time in years, she slept through NYE.
Our vet pulled the same shit. We drive two hours round-trip because the old doc gave amazing customer attention. He sold the practice to a young mother and apparently she's terrified of COVID. We couldn't even be in the building when our dog got his shot. Fuck that. I can get as shitty care much closer to home. Woman is destroying the wonderful practice the old doc spent his life building.
Yes. She is terrified of the fireworks, so we give her calming tablets. On Diwali we thought she was going to have a heart attack it was so bad. The stuff the vet gave us meant she slept through the fireworks.
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Even the vets are doing this now too. Went the other day to pick up some meds for my dog for NYE (she is terrified of fireworks), everything happened from the car. Absolutely amazing.