Hey Jeannine, Both my Uncles live in Alabama, they love it there. They
actually moved from here LOL.
I had a bad experience with kennel cough one time too. It sucks that the
treatment that was supposed to make your baby better made him so sick. Too
bad its not as easy to sue a vet.
Cindy
On 6/18/07, Jeannine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, Cindy, I'm in Alabama, and I know there are good vets. The
thing is they specialize in something. Like one vet specializes in teeth,
anything else he lets his girls handle. A couple are in it totally for a
paycheck, which isn't a bad idea in itself but there are live creatures
involved here. I do all the research and tell my vet what to do. When I
had one puppy get kennel cough last year, I panicked. I went to the vet.
$100 to walk in the door at 8 AM. He gave me something that made my puppy
bleed from it's stomach, it was pooping pure blood. I checked around with
some people who have kennels and called my vet and told the lady who
answered the phone, I want a bottle of Doxycycline and I'll be down there in
a few minutes. I never went through what he had given me and how it didn't
work etc. I was nice, paid my $20 more dollars and got the right stuff.
Knocked out the cough in a day, no bleeding, no problems. but you really
have to know your dog and know what your problem is before you go or you are
at their mercy. Some vets are graduating without a degree, that means they
flunked out of college, and are getting a copy of degree for $25 off the
internet putting it on the wall and opening a busines. They have loads of
patients, and some may be good vets, some may have good common sense and be
better vets than trained vets, but it still means we have to be in control
of the situation and don't trust just everybody.
Jeannine
Yeah it does take time to trust them.Plus I always come home and look up
whatever they say on the internet and I ask everyone I know so the next time
I go in I am armed with info. For instance I learned way more from my
diabetic dog
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