My trip to the vet.

[shan]

Ok, so I have to take my puppy in for her allergies again. She digs herself raw and drives me nuts :nod: . So I made an appointment, it was yesterday at six o'clock. We get Gabby in the truck (then I have to fight for room because my dog don't like sharing the seat) Get half way there and realize that I forgot her leash. No biggie, the vets office has some. Borrow a leash and bring her in the vets office. Having to fight just to get her through the door. I think she is remembering them spaying her and just wants to go home with all her parts. :leavin: Never could get her to get on the scales by herself, so we have to pick her up and put her on the scales. Then we get to go in a room. The vet comes in and goes to pick her up, she pees all over (barely missing his shoe). Then her collar breaks and she falls off the table :eek: right back into the pee. So we get her back on the table and my poor baby is shaking, and get her a little allergy shot and she is allowed off the table. (Well the vet looked at her spots where she wouldn't stop itching) Gabby is allergic to grass. Grass! How rude is it to make a poor little dog (ok not so little) allergic to grass. Ever since I took Gabby in and got her fixed she hasn't liked the vets office. I just don't know what to do sometimes. She pees all over the floor when he goes to pick her up and I can't bend down to clean it up. I feel so bad for leaving it there, but what else am I to do? If I let Dh take her to the vet she will poop on the floor instead. Yuck! I don't know I really hate taking her to the vet!

[heather6773]

I don't have any advice for her but your not alone...my Pug gets car sick!!! I thought it would be cool to have a small dog that could go on road trips with us....WRONG!!! He gets so worked up that he throws up...

[shan]

Yeah it is really a lose, lose situation. There really is no solution, but I just needed to tell someone about who better to tell than my HT buds. :D

[Mommytotwo]

Awwww, allergic to grass. Poor doggie can't go to the park or run in the yard.
I would go along with the pee instead of the poop and I'm sure the vets office understands it when pets pee when they are there.
Hope your doggies wound heals soon.

[shan]

She loves to go to the park or the lake and fetch sticks. She loves to play. I think her allergies are getting worst though because I had to take her to the vet in October for the same thing and normally I only have to take her once a year for her shot.

[Turtleheadfred]

Shan - bless your and Gabby's heart!!! (My Gabby is a boy - short for Gabriel! :clap: )

Try making it a treat for Gabby. We take our babies riding for things other than to go to the vet so they like the ride. And all the girls in the vets office REALLY make over all of them and talk about how sweet, pretty, etc. they are so they like the attention even if they're nervous.

I ALWAYS am right beside them talking to them and loving on them the whole time telling them how much DOC loves them and is going to take care of them - and he NEVER hurts them with shots or anything which is great! We also then go for special doggie ice cream at the Baskin-Robbin next door when we're through --- you tell them it's for your dog and they have a special kind without sugar just for them that they get for you for next to nothing!!! It's GREAT!!!

It still may take you some time to get Gabby over this - but maybe you could make some trips just to say Hi to the staff?! You know - little things so that it's a good experience. Like I said - mine all get nervous - but they really do well in part I'm sure because of the staff and they allow me to be part of the entire experience.

Good luck hon! I know it's hard when our furry babies our stressed!

[Sydneyp]

I think the vet understands - I'm sure your guy isn't the first and won't be the last to pee from fear at the vets.

I take our dog every other week to be weighed (she looked like a watermelon on stilts at one point.) We go in, go to the scale, I have to pick her up and put her on it, we stop for a pet from the assistant and we leave.

Every time it's the same thing - she fights me every step of the way. OK, not fights, but she acts like I'm dragging her over a cliff instead of going for this simple procedure.