Why Vets Are Getting Away With Murder - Page 5

There are all kinds of vets out there - during the years I met all of them...
Working as a veterinarian means working in a job - some vets are good, some are lousy - but there are lousy plumbers, too.

I think a lot of dog owners are at fault for the mind change of a lot of veterinarians - these dog owners demand treatments for dogs that should be euthanized, but they treat their pets like babies, not like dogs. Not everything that´s possible should be done...

I have seen dog owners who refused to euthanize deadly sick dogs, I have seen dogs in "wheel chairs", I have seen people treating old dogs with chemotherapy against deadly cancer, I have seen people carrying their old dogs for months cause they weren´t able to move by themselves any more - in my personal opinion that´s abnormal.
There is life and there is death - I want my dogs to live in dignity, and I want to them to die in dignity. that´s what we owe them.

Veterinarians are service providers, they tend to do what WE want.

Some vets I've known would refuse to go to heroics to try to save animals where there was clearly no hope for recovery. Some of those owners would understand while others managed to find a vet who would do as they asked.

On the other hand, some owners take it too far beacuse they are encouraged to do so by a vet. I'm one of those owners who agreed to chemo for my first GSD with lymphosarcoma because 3 vets including 2 oncologists overstated the prognosis. They neglected to tell me that a dog undergoing chemo for a leukemia was an immune cripple that had to be isolated from other dogs and not exposed to any environment that was frequented by other dogs; they could not be exposed to viruses or bacterial infections that would not make a healthy dog ill. No stress, no playing ball, no exercise.  I was never told that the chemo for that disease is on going since a remission rarely holds for very long and then it's back to square one.  I was told my dog would not get sick, he did. When I visited the oncologist's office before agreeing to a second round of chemo for my beloved dog, I was appalled to see dogs confined to guerneys with IV drips and I learned that some of those dogs had been treated many times for the same cancer and never got any more out of life than living in a bubble or being pushed around the hospital on a guerney. I refused to do it again.

Some owners take it over the top and so do some vets.

Mod edit. Topic is vets not Rescues. And less of the PA's please. mrdarcy (mod)

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Moderator edit again. No more PA's on members and stay on topic.......VETS. mrdarcy (mod)

Good, so long.