Your biggest frustration

Re: Your biggest frustration

sarah mason — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:39:06 GMT

clientswho can only drop off or collect ooh because they have work/kids/football etc...........or who spend ages telling you how they work "fulltime" ..............

Re: Your biggest frustration

Julian Earl — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:48:35 GMT

[quote user="plantagenet"]

Dogs that are bred so small and fragile that you are petrified of snapping or dislocating them whilst restraining to give induction into a tiny weeny little vein; managed eventually and removed very disporoportionately large pair of testicles.

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Some of these little dogs do have large cojones!

Re: Your biggest frustration

Bob Russell — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:04:10 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

[quote user="Rob Davis"]the owner takes a call on her mobile....[/quote]

Last time someone did that to me, I walked out.

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I just keep talking. The client is paying for my time and gets it. We treat our clients with respect and expect the same in return (I have to say we generally get good manners from our clients).

Re: Your biggest frustration

bob lehner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:01:54 GMT

Indeed - the general slobbish bad manners of people gets me down.

I saw a particularly unpalatable youth the other Sunday afternoon by special arrangement as his dog (staffie of course) had been in a fight. I opened the surgery door to be be greeted by the hooded pleb with 'Orr-right mate'. I'm afraid I replied 'Let's get one thing straight before we go any further - I' m absolutely not your mate'.

Surly grunt in reply....!

Re: Your biggest frustration

plantagenet — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:56:12 GMT

Re: Your biggest frustration

Rob Davis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:40:03 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]Last time someone did that to me, I walked out. [/quote]

Me too just yesterday. I saw the next client in another room and came back to him, and he was still on the phone!

Re: Your biggest frustration

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:32:34 GMT

[quote user="Rob Davis"]the owner takes a call on her mobile....[/quote]

Last time someone did that to me, I walked out.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Rob Davis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:26:52 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]Children who are into everything. [/quote]

Parents who allow their children to be into everything. It shouldn't be my job to retrieve the child's hand from the sharps bin while simultaneously trying to restrain the badly behaved dog as the owner takes a call on her mobile....

Re: Your biggest frustration

Bob Russell — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:31:53 GMT

[quote user="Chris Milligan"]

Whinging colleagues - call me an idealistic but I'd rather hear people's happy stories than what they think of the "client with no money" who doesn't think as much about their pet's welfare as they do five times a day.

Not that this ever happens of course...:D

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Perhaps you would like to start a new thread! I like a good whinge in a sympathetic environment - it makes me feel better!

Re: Your biggest frustration

Chris Milligan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:52:30 GMT

Not that this ever happens of course...:D

Re: Your biggest frustration

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:51:49 GMT

I would put frustration a bit higher-a frosted windscreen is merely an annoyance

A dog who is badly behaved daft owner took it off-that's a frustration

Wynne

Re: Your biggest frustration

plantagenet — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:12:50 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]I would call some of these annoyances,not frustrations[/quote]

frustration is when you can't do anything about the things that annoy you.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Hannah Wynne Richards — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:50:22 GMT

I would call some of these annoyances,not frustrations

Wynne

Re: Your biggest frustration

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:43:18 GMT

People who bring mess with them. You can bring a rabbit or guinea pig in a box with newspaper - the shavings just get everywhere. When taking your cat to the vet don't put half a packet of treats in with the cat - it won't eat them, but they will go everywhere when we drag the cat out of the basket.

Children who are into everything.

Re: Your biggest frustration

bob lehner — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:54:43 GMT

[quote user="plantagenet"]Why do clients always think their cat will come out its basket without some physical encouragemen[/quote]

I hate the sort of plastic cat box where the door pivots and half blocks the entrance/exit as it is opened, such that the cat's back leg invariably get jammed as you are trying to gently extract the reluctant patient, without looking as if you are forcibly dragging it out by the scruff.

Then when you fail, you have to undo multiple plastic widgets to take the lid off - easy - but a b*****er to get them all back in place when the cat is back in the box and you are in a hurry to see the next client. There's always one widget that jams or won't line up.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Simon Neuhoff — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:01:11 GMT

May I add - the client that allows their big bouncy Lab to go and sniff the cage containing my next patient - an extremely fractious cat at the best of times!

Re: Your biggest frustration

Mark Hedberg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:54:26 GMT

[quote user="newgradvet"]

The time when you do a house visit for a preplanned eldrly cat/dog euthanasia and are expected to do it crouched low on the floor with no light to even see a vein or with the animal curled on a lap where you have to try and twist your body through 180 degrees to try and give the injection and the owner says "whilst his sleeping please don't wake him up while doing the deed".

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Easy, presedate/tranquilize and then they don't. Happy end all around.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Claire McConnell — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:21:45 GMT

Other than agreeing with most annoyances/frustrations also mentioned I can also think of a few other scenarios:

Also a client of mine who has the naughtiest labrador in the world, (not aggressive) but unconrollable and boistrous who contnuoulsy give sthe dogs plenty of treats in the consult to attempt to keep it still. I alwasy comment that you are actually rewarding bad bahviour and she stops but then the following consult she does the same thing againand again with the same conversation...

And on the topic of please hold your cat or dog, what about the rabbit owners that plonk their terrified rabbit on the consult table and just walk away and leave it. I have an internal scream of your rabbit will break its back if it jumps off the table. And even when you politely point out that a strong pair of hands will be needed they then repeatedly keep letting go. My heart jumps during these consults.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Claire McConnell — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:11:49 GMT

Reading forums like his make me feel so much better that I'm not the only person/vet frustrated about some of these things.

Makes me feel normal.

Re: Your biggest frustration

Mark Holmes — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:53:04 GMT

Not veterinary related other than irritating me on th eway to work but why do car windows freeze in order of importance?

Re: Your biggest frustration

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:54:14 GMT

or..

" you must get used to being bitten in this job eh?"

Re: Your biggest frustration

Mark Rowland — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:45:56 GMT

[quote user="Eamon McAllister"]

What about the clients who burst out laughing after "Tyson" has launched an unheralded deadly attack on your jugular? I stand there, ashen faced in shock at the near miss, trying to suppress the instinct to fight or take flight (and involuntary bowel movements) , waiting for them to recover from the hysterics and say " 'e's never done that before".

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An answer I got after being bitten once was "Oh yeah he does that sometimes"

Re: Your biggest frustration

Eamon McAllister — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:25:41 GMT

Re: Your biggest frustration

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:29:51 GMT

Owner I saw today-she's a doctor in general practice-so has no excuse for pleading poverty-and it's my money that's paying her Also has no excuse for not knowing drug regulations Brought dog in for boster I said it needed lungworm prophylaxis She said she had plenty There was no record of any dispensed from this practice, so I queried origin She said she had got Advocate from a friend I said that that was as illegal as if she prescribed me something, and I handed it on to someone else

The frustration arises because I can't report this law-breaking to the police without prior Royal College approval Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wynne

Re: Your biggest frustration

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:39:44 GMT

I would say it's a worry,because the cat may escape and get run over when someone else comes in, it's an annoyance because it makes our work harder,and it's a frustration because the Gto PC won't let us tell them what we really think

Wynne