This might be long but my wife and I recently had an issue with our vet. I'm wondering if it truly the dog or if we have a racist vet on our hands.
So our GSD had some gunk coming out of his eye. It wasn't clear but a darker color. My wife was worrying and since we were going to go on vacation soon, wanted to make sure that everything was okay before we took them to the kennel that would be keeping our dogs while we were away.
At the vet, the vet techs (not the vet) were trying to cut his nails and he expressed his anal glands. Now my wife is the one that took him so I didn't see it, but from what I understand they were trying to restrain him and clip his nails. We've only had him ~2months at this point and hadn't yet trimmed his nails ourselves, but we have been able to play with his feet, play with his nails and get him semi-desensitized to people touching his feet. We even went through basic obedience classes with him and our other dog. Neither dog had any issues with the trainer playing with their feet either.
Well after the anal gland incident the vet comes in and proceeds to berate my wife on how much more training the dog needs and that he's just unstable. On top of the basic obedience classes that we went to (which most of which he already knew) we'd done a considerable amount of training with him to begin with. Or I guess considerable for us. He's so fun to train because it doesn't take him long to learn anything new. But according the vet it's not enough. Well my wife gets a little upset (to say the least) and asks the vet what she recommends since we have such a terrible dog on our hands. :rollseyes: Vet goes on to say that they normally do GSD (only breed she mentioned) vet visits outside because they don't like confined places. The same woman goes on to tell me that she can't trim the nails of her 12 year old rotteweiler (sp?) without putting a muzzle on him.
Now I'm a personal trainer and I do my best to lead through example. Can I take a vet seriously that's telling us our dog needs more training when she has an older dog that she has to muzzle?
Our GSD was walked for 1hour to 1.5hour prior to going to the vet. He's a little excited but after that much activity a little less rambunctious.
I guess this turned into a rant but my real question is the vet's concerns real or something that she might have had issues with previously?
So our GSD had some gunk coming out of his eye. It wasn't clear but a darker color. My wife was worrying and since we were going to go on vacation soon, wanted to make sure that everything was okay before we took them to the kennel that would be keeping our dogs while we were away.
At the vet, the vet techs (not the vet) were trying to cut his nails and he expressed his anal glands. Now my wife is the one that took him so I didn't see it, but from what I understand they were trying to restrain him and clip his nails. We've only had him ~2months at this point and hadn't yet trimmed his nails ourselves, but we have been able to play with his feet, play with his nails and get him semi-desensitized to people touching his feet. We even went through basic obedience classes with him and our other dog. Neither dog had any issues with the trainer playing with their feet either.
Well after the anal gland incident the vet comes in and proceeds to berate my wife on how much more training the dog needs and that he's just unstable. On top of the basic obedience classes that we went to (which most of which he already knew) we'd done a considerable amount of training with him to begin with. Or I guess considerable for us. He's so fun to train because it doesn't take him long to learn anything new. But according the vet it's not enough. Well my wife gets a little upset (to say the least) and asks the vet what she recommends since we have such a terrible dog on our hands. :rollseyes: Vet goes on to say that they normally do GSD (only breed she mentioned) vet visits outside because they don't like confined places. The same woman goes on to tell me that she can't trim the nails of her 12 year old rotteweiler (sp?) without putting a muzzle on him.
Now I'm a personal trainer and I do my best to lead through example. Can I take a vet seriously that's telling us our dog needs more training when she has an older dog that she has to muzzle?
Our GSD was walked for 1hour to 1.5hour prior to going to the vet. He's a little excited but after that much activity a little less rambunctious.
I guess this turned into a rant but my real question is the vet's concerns real or something that she might have had issues with previously?