30 Hilarious Stories From Vets About Pets And Their Sometimes Clueless Owners

I remember a patient I had when I first started nursing in family medicine. She was in her early 90s, and was starting the horribly sad decline into dementia. The Dr, who was in his 70s and one of the most amazing Drs I have worked with, still did house calls. He told us about how she kept looking for her pet bird that she though flown away, but it had actually been re-homed by her daughter due to her not being able to care for it anymore.. We found a fake bird, that responded to voices and touch, and when he went on his next house call, he put it in the cage. She was so happy and believed her beloved pet bird had come back . Every time he visited her, about once a week, she would show him the bird. She eventually had to go to assisted living and she was able to take the "bird" with her. It seriously brought her so much joy in her final years. On a side note, she also had a 61 convertible Ford Mustang her and her husband bought new. It was in mint condition and she was very proud of it

These are the kind of things that make me believe that maybe, just maybe, there is still good in this world.

that's adorable as hell.

And incredibly lucrative

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Caring for ALL animals is caring for everyone. That means don't eat meat. No cruelty is the answer.

Yea, yea, stop

Enough already.

Yeah, we get it.

SO reading from the bible means you care for the pet and/or person?

it depends. dog #1 was taken from the vet and we only got the ashes. dog #2 we brought ourselves. They offer a room to mourn before and to watch the cremation if you chose to. You can get paw prints, fotos, fur, necklaces and even diamonds out off the ashes. We always took the ashes to a river with a friend and her dogs and had a beer in their memory.

They did not say the owner was present. Only that they wanted this done. Makes me a little teary.

I guess it depends on location. I'm in Mumbai and my cat passed away a few months ago. This was at a government veterinarian hospital with a huge campus that had a teaching facility as well as facilities for X-rays for small animals and large animals (cattle.) Then they also had 2 dog wards, 4 cat wards, a cattle ward, an ICU, a cat shelter with over 80 cats and dog shelters for around 30 stray dogs. That place is huge. They had a crematorium and we were allowed to be around it. So my cat was placed before us for final goodbyes and then she was taken to be cremated, which happened 15 feet away from us behind a closed door. An hour or so later we were able to collect her ashes. It's as close to a funeral service as possible. My mom had picked flowers and put them around my cat as well.

Where I live, the vet came to our house to euthanize or old boy Sisco (he was 17 and suffering of kidney failure). She gaves time to grief before she did it. Then, like @sturmwesen, she took a paw print and and cut piece of his hair and gave us a beautiful card. Afterwards, we buried our pup in the backyard and planted a flower bush over his grave.

Was literally going to comment the exact same thing!

Sad but true

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YES welcome to Alabama, it's legal to marry your cousins!

That cat is a dirty dirty dawg

Including humans. Hence incest laws that are rarely enforced.

Amen

He'll have to get his pussy somewhere else.

Cuddling session. Just a cuddling session.

Look at just how cruel she was willing to be towards her husband. She was going to lie to him about the dog, put the dog down, and wanted the vet to be complicit in her lies. I'm glad that they rescued the dog. Goldens are the best ever. Too bad they couldn't euthanize her. That would fix her allergies.

Sounds like it wasn't both of them, though.....just the woman. Sad.

Or husbands. Poor guy.

Hahaha

Great idea!

Nah. They deserve to suffer. Clip her teeth with a rust nailclipper and then boil her in battery acid

I wish