The Life of a Vet Receptionist

There's been some crazy stuff going on lately. Thought I'd share.

Where to start. Some guy brought a dog named Cocoa in like a month ago to get treated for something. We wouldn't treat her until he paid the $300 he owed from the last time we treated her, so he just wanted to take her. But we wouldn't let her go until he paid it. So we sent him letter after letter and phone call after phone call for like 4 weeks. He called us a couple of times and said "I'll go ahead and take Cocoa and then come in and pay next week" and we were like no you won't. So finally after not hearing from him we sent the dog to the humane society. Literally the day later (yesterday) he called again trying to get the dog and pay later, so we told him Cocoa was gone. But we're not saying where. So he told me he's going to "whoop my ass" if I don't tell him where his dog is. So I made him talk to the office manager. Then he told Johnathan that he was going to whoop "all our asses" and then take us to court if we didn't get his dog back. Must be tough to pay lawyer bills when you can't pay for your own dog. We'll see how that one goes.

I saw my first rectal prolapse the other day. Look it up. It made my butt hurt. It made me scared to poop.

Then there's Sable. Sable's an insane little black cat that has some kind of tail fixation. She keeps chewing up her tail. It got so bad that we had to chop part of it off. But she kept doing it. So we ended up just lopping off the whole tail. If you've never seen a cat tail without a cat attached to it, lemme tell you it's pretty strange. Looks like a big fuzzy noodle. Anyways that was going well and we sent her home and the next day we got a call. She had chewed up her stump. How do you chew a stump? I don't know. She pulled it off. She's back at the vet with a stump with stitches and one of those big cone collars. And she's really annoyed.

Then there's this couple with a dog who's leg is swollen. But Doc can't find anything wrong with it. It's not painful or an infection or a problem with bone abnormalities. So we try to refer them to Upstate who has the equipment to do all the crazy tests that need to be done, but the owner gets mad because they spent all that money and didn't learn anything.

Hard knock life. Don't get pets if you won't pay for them. Butthole. Rawr.

Ok bye.