Clinic tidbits

[cjsmith]

It's been a while since I wrote one of these. I have learned:

- How to hold a guinea pig so he can get his nails trimmed.
- Alaskan Malamutes are NOT just slightly different from huskies. They are HUGE HUGE DOGS. I mean it. HUGE.
- Bengal cats WILL escape their cage. When you and your six extra arms manage to get them back in, they will decide they don't know each other any more, and they'll get into a nasty fight. After they've been separated, they will also knock over all food and water bowls within minutes of their placement.
- It is possible for a one-year-old Golden Retriever to snooze all day. Yes, a Golden! Just send him through anaphylactic shock & quick treatment with steroids. Nap time.
- Jack Russell dogs are insane.
- Jack Russell dogs trying to eat while wearing an Elizabethan collar are hilariously funny. Successful, but hilariously funny.
- I am therefore a mean and terrible person.
- A thick-coated dog who for medical reasons has had a penectomy (men, don't google this) is thenceforth prone to chafing and infections in the surrounding skin, and when you shave him, he really gets... um... pissed off.
- Some dogs who have truly enormous bladder capacity will demonstrate it when pissed off. (Why do these appointments have to occur in the morning? I wouldn't have minded having clean scrubs well into the afternoon. Really, I wouldn't have minded.)
- The stethoscope I think I want is a Littmann Master Classic II. I can hear way better with those than with others I've tried.

Comments

[busysuzy.livejournal.com]

I wish you could have filmed the JR eating with the collar. That really must have been hilarious (probably pathetic, too).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

He was a total nutcase. He kept pushing the bowl forward as he tried to shove his nose deeper into it, and eventually the bowl would become wedged into the corner of his run, and he'd yelp and whine until I picked it up and shook the food back into the middle of it. Then he'd schnorfle vigorously again for another ten minutes. He was a hoot.

[exvapi.livejournal.com]

I have a pound puppy that is a mix of Jack and black lab (no I don't know just how that was done, and don't think I want to).

He turned out to be a lab sized terrier.

The Mastiff just barely tolerates the energy field. If he didn't have to wake up to kill the black thing, he would have long ago.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That image strikes terror into my heart. A Lab-sized terrier!

Your description of the Mastiff's response made me burst out laughing.

[exvapi.livejournal.com]

Last night my daughter, her husband and dog were over. With a victim/playmate at hand the lab/terrier went stupid and was bouncing all over.

About 9, the mastiff decided it was bed time and there was a low rumble from his room that went like "You two calm down. It's bed time. don't make me come in there."

When the jumping/running/bouncing continued, the mastiff appearing in the family room with a grumbling noise. The lab/terrier sat right down and didn't move, didn't move except to lay down once the big guy turned and left.

I would love to have that bit of "dog talk" translated. If it worked so well on a maniac, it should work in an out of control Homeowner's Association meeting.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Jack Russell terrier + stepladder + gumption * lady dog who is willing to try anything once= your dog