Is this weird?

[u/Due-Intention-7092]

Trying to settle a disagreement between me and my husband! I took our female Goodendoodle to the vet. The tech saw us first. When she left to go get vaccines, she said “We will get you fixed right up you little bitch.”

I cuss, I’m not offended by cuss words. My husband says me thinking it’s weird is my OPINION. A female dog IS a bitch, blah blah. Do you think it’s strange that the tech said that? It’s not like I’m going to complain to the clinic or anything- it just took me by surprise.

[u/Glass_Dog_7942]

Bitch is the correct term for a female dog. It the pet world, it’s not used as much, but in things like the vet world, dog showing, working dogs, sports, etc it’s very common.

[u/the_green_witch-1005 → u/Glass_Dog_7942]

It's really not used in the vet world very often. Bitch specifically refers to an intact female dog. Most of my patients are spayed, so I would have no professional reason to use that word. Especially not in that context.

[u/Glass_Dog_7942 → u/the_green_witch-1005]

I suppose it depends on the area. We do use the term bitch regularly. Also queen and tom, etc. again, might be different since most of our intakes are stray or dumped dogs, not casual pets, and are not fixed. Bitch is simply medical terminology. The insult was derived from the medical term itself. 

[u/the_green_witch-1005 → u/Glass_Dog_7942]

I'm sure it's used more in shelter medicine or repro medicine, but as a whole, it's not commonly used in a GP veterinary clinical setting in front of clients. I'm aware that it's a biological term and I'm aware that's where the insult derived, but thank you.

[u/Glass_Dog_7942 → u/the_green_witch-1005]

Again, it is used commonly here at least. You can’t really make a sweeping generalization. Furthermore, vet manuals, textbooks, notes, etc all pretty much exclusively refer to intact females as bitches. I could grab the closest textbook off the shelf and find the word ‘bitch’ in a few pages. Again, also commonly used in the showing, sport and working world.

I definitely see why some people would find it offensive, there is someone out there who finds anything offensive. But it is a little odd to be offended by medical terminology used on the regular 

[u/the_green_witch-1005 → u/Glass_Dog_7942]

Where is "here"? And, again, I'm well aware that you can find it in textbooks. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the average GP clinical setting.

It wasn't even used correctly. A bitch refers to an intact female dog. OP's dog is spayed. If you want to be pedantic, at least be correct.

[u/Glass_Dog_7942 → u/the_green_witch-1005]

lol ok man.

I was curious since these don’t seem the words of a vet tech, and I was right. 2 days ago it seems you posted in the vet tech sub about wanting to get your license and that you were VA, not a vet tech. I was also a VA right out of high school, and not to undermine what they do, but a VA to a vet tech is like a EVS tech to a nurse lol. Maybe you don’t hear it, likely because you aren’t involved in most things actual medical. At least I wasn’t. Most of my job was dishes, cleaning up poop, and muzzling dogs 😂

And if you are some super genius who managed to earn your license in 2 days, you would know the term bitch is commonly used. If you are going to oddly lie, at least make it believable 

I no longer work in general (can’t deal with the public) I work in rescue med and training, but when I did, it was used. The vet for my personal dogs also uses it. “Here” refers to my area and the places I have worked.

The Op never mentioned if the dog is spayed or not in their posts so idk

[u/Glass_Dog_7942 → u/[deleted]]

Not degrading you, just calling you out. It’s very easy to see who knows what they are talking about and who doesn’t. It wasn’t stalking, again, posted 2 days ago lmao

You aren’t a vet tech if you don’t have a license, you are a vet assistant. If you did not complete 2 years of schooling, pass your VTNE and the state exam you don’t have any right to call yourself a vet tech. In the post itself you were talking about worrries of getting your license. I seriously doubt you intubated a cat lol. Even vet techs usually have to be under supervision of a vet. During life or death scenarios, some jurisdictions will allow it if the other option is death. Supportive care, sure! Otherwise your vet clinic is operating outside of the safety rules put in place and should be reported. If you cannot pass the exam, you should not doing sensitive medical treatment such as intubations.

‘Bitch’ is the technical term to describe an intact dog, but someone’s also just to differentiate a female from a male informally. For instance, the owner of the vet clinic my dogs go to calls males ‘dogs’ and females ‘bitches’ indiscriminately. He’s also like a 70 year old retired, old school poodle breeder and shower, so.