Funny vet story.

[Tyler Durden]

Briget the Pembroke Corgi is our beautiful, luscious little psychotic child, along with the four humans, four cats, her brother Charlie and the old man of the three dogs, Sneezer (sneezes when he's happy, hence the name).

"Brijjie" is a textbook beautiful Corgi bitch, but has two genetic disorders, so is spayed: Waleyed (hilarious to watch), and a skin disorder which makes her fur soft as silk but her skin breaks out in the summer.

The story:

Deborah (the wife) took Brij in for her summer steroids to prevent her hair falling out in her armpits and her ass (not a pretty sight) and to prevent the pits getting raw.

Brij loves everyone, especially the vet. Doc Brooks was asking the usual questions; appetite ok? sleeping ok? no behaviour changes? and then the capper:

Any gas?

Deborah immediately says "How the Hell should I know? Everyone in the house including the cats has gas all the damned time!"

The vet had hysterics and had to sit down, and the assistant had to run to the john lest she pee her panties.

[Richardo]

1. Funny! I can relate...

6 dogs, two cats and me. Mrs. R hasn't a chance.

Those steroids - are they tablets or topical spray? We have to use the spray on the JRTs for the same reason you do...but we have to apply it nearly every day.

[Tyler Durden]

3. Injections

She gets one every summer when the irritation starts, plus some icky cream that you rub into her pits but does nothing as she loves the tast of it, licks it off about 3 seconds after you put it on, then pukes about six hours later.

Clears it up pretty well, with the usual heart etc caveats, but the infections she gets when the pits and ass are bare and raw are brutal so lesser of two evils.

[Wcross]

6. Six dogs & two cats in my household also!

It does get smelly in here from time to time!

[livetohike]

2. Thanks for the laugh

:-) I'm sure we could add to this thread with other funny vet stories.

[Tyler Durden]

4. In week all 4 cats minus 1 get pre-Canada rabies shots.

That joyful little task should be good for a chapter in a book.

[livetohike]

5. At least a chapter

Keep us posted on that (4 cats and rabies shots!). I currently have two dogs and one is deathly afraid of the vet. A vet visit is not funny :-(.

[Modem Butterfly]

7. We adopted a Shar-Pei four years ago

He was our first short-coated dog. We had some brush that needed to be cut down in our fenced backyard that I couldn't keep him out of. Despite using flea and tick medicine, I was always afraid of ticks, which are plentiful down here in Georgia. One day, I found one on his stomach that was already partially engorged. I tried to remove it, and it wouldn't go! I was twisting and twisting, clockwise, counter-clockwise, I even used a tick tool my vet had given me. No use. I called the vet, whose offices were only a couple of miles away, and they told me to bring the dog in. I loaded him up in the car and off we went.

We got to the vet at the right time, just between appointments. So the vet tech puts the dog on the table and rolls him over, and I showed the vet the tick. The vet tech starts to laugh, and my vet kind of giggles and says, "Well Modem, that's a nipple,"

"But it's so big and red!" I said.

"Well, you did say you tried to remove it,"

[Tyler Durden]

8. That's a "coffee on the keyboard" -er if I ever heard one!

[Modem Butterfly]

9. The WORST part of the whole story

Is that afterwards, when the nipple remained large and red, I began to fear I had damaged it. So I went to Google and entered in the following search string:

"dog nipple" +red +enlarged

Yikes. WTF was I thinking?

[Coventina]

13. Ok, now I'm crying!!!

OMG! Too funny!!

[Heidi]

12. Jinx!

I had almost exactly the same scenario with The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger. Fortunately, it was my husband who informed me, "Would you just leave his nipples alone, please? Honey, we don't have chiggers and like that in Switzerland." We _do_ have ticks here, but I've learned that it's unlikely they'd lined up symetrically on my cat's belly.

Heidi, idiot

[yellowcanine]

10. There was a great episode of "All Creatures Great and Small" where

James Herriot treated a dog who had terrible gas. The problem was finally solved when the lady who owned him gave the dog to a man who didn't have a sense of smell.

[Patiod]

11. My friend had a corgi who had a "no cats on the floor" rule

This was an apartment filled to the brim with furniture and shelves and big windowsills - the cat could, without any hardship, easily navigate the entire place without being on the floor. The corgi completely ignored the cat unless it touched a single paw on the floor. Then it went nuts, barking and carrying on. The cat, of course, enjoyed teasing him - sitting on a low sofa and trying to sneak a paw onto the floor just to set him off.

At a certain hour, he would also "herd" us over to his treat jar. You didn't even know it was happening. One minute you're standing, chatting in the living room, and 5 minutes later you realize you've shifted into the kitchen and are in front of the treat jar, with the corgi looking expectantly between you and the jar.

After someone tried to break-in through my bedroom window while I slept, my friend lent him to me for evenings while I was in the process of moving into a safer apartment. He slept on the carpet next to the bed, and I felt 100% safer.

Have had a soft spot for those dear little manipulative creatures ever since.