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This probably isn't the right place for this, since "annoy" doesn't even begin to describe how I'm feeling, but there isn't a "Things that make you homicidal" thread so I'm putting this here.

As some of you know, I work at a veterinary clinic. What I haven't yet mentioned is that I had to put my last pet rat, Scotty Smalls, to sleep recently. As I have done with all of my furry pets that pass, I had his body sent out for private cremation. The pet cemetary that does our cremations has a driver come pick up the bodies and then the ashes are shipped back to us via UPS.

Smalls's ashes were shipped back yesterday along with the ashes of a client's pet. Only I'm off on Fridays and the employee that unpacked shipments yesterday didn't bother to call me. I got to work this morning and saw the packing list with my rat's name on it, so I went to where we keep the cremains that are waiting for the owners to pick up. They weren't there, but the ashes of the other pet that came back yesterday were there. I searched everywhere I could think where they might be. Nothing. Both of my coworkers who were working today were there yesterday but both claimed not to know and the one that unpacked the shipment swore she put his ashes where they were supposed to go. We called the other two employees that worked yesterday. Nobody knew anything. Then on a hunch the coworker who didn't unpack the shipment went outside and climbed into the dumpster.

Guess what she found? That's right, the urn with his ashes. Still in bubble wrap. Still in the shipping box. THROWN IN THE F***ING TRASH. My incompetent piece of crap coworker better thank her lucky stars that the urn was found and wasn't damaged and that she must have unpacked the shipment after the garbage truck had picked up yesterday.

This is just one of many stupid mistakes this idiot has made since being hired in January. Up til now my boss had just been talking to her about the mistakes and putting restrictions on what she's allowed to do - as if that's somehow going to fix the problem - but I think he's finally realizing that she needs to be let go. I can only hope he actually follows through.



When people use Dunkin as a conference center. Whole crowd of people today having a conference across 2 tables. Only evidence of purchase was a single coffee cup. And at lunchtime too.
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This is for @Miss Vicky, but what about neighbors who won't put down a long suffering dog?

I'm not sure of the dog's age, but at least in its late teens.

I'm not being a hard guy as I totally understand not wanting to kill your best friend, even if it is out of mercy, but for an animal that has become half paralyzed, can't go up or down stairs anymore, has lost all control of its bowels & bladder and shakes constantly (no one knows if this is from cold, pain, fear or an old-age Parkinson's type ailment, or maybe a combination of so many problems), what options are there?

The dog's been in bad shape - half crippled and in pain for almost year. Yesterday it became completely paralyzed in its hind quarters and completely lost control (it had been losing control for a long time and going in the house repeatedly despite being well house broken - I know, I dogsat a few weeks ago and had to clean up a huge mess when I left the house for a little while. Sitting for this dog was like sitting for a bed-ridden human).

They took it to a vet yesterday and the dog was given steroids - they were told IF the steroids work, the dog should regain mobility today - it did not. It just struggles and cries and shakes. (They paid $900 for x-rays & medicine. They were told a surgery could be performed with no guarantees, that may not work or may kill the dog due to its health & age for $9000!)

Today the owner was trying to walk the dog around the yard by using a make-shift sling to hold it's back end up off the ground.

Opinions?



Insane & very selfish. Our local priest is devastated because he just euthanized his beagle whom he had for 11 years. Intermittently the dog looked fine, but, most often, he was sick. Eventually he could not move his hind legs & was put out of his misery.

Vets will tell you anything IMO. I know since we once wasted $1,000 pumping our cat full of god knows what to make her feel better for a while when the vet knew she wasn’t going to last much longer, which she didn’t.

What can you do since this poor animal is not yours? I don’t know the answer to this, but I pray his owners come to their senses.



Thanks, Stirch.

Just to be clear, this is not the dog I walk for a neighbor a couple times a week and have also sat for (that dog is probably about 10 years old, but is very healthy and as spry as a puppy - and our long walks probably help him stay fit). The sick dog belongs to a different neighbor on the other side.



That elusive hide-and-seek cow is at it again
I think that's a bit of not seeing the severity having been so close to it (like looking in a mirror every day and not seeing the changes in yourself until you catch a photo from 20 years ago) and denial of how bad the problem actually is.

Mom went through something similar with a german shepherd. The dog slowly went down hill while she cared for it. She was in denial of what the dog was likely experiencing out of fear and guilt of putting her down. Probably too, fear of being alone and blindly hoping the dog would improve. "Yesterday she seemed better, so maybe tomorrow she will feel better again?" That kind of a loop. Looking back she can recognize that and really regrets not acting sooner. But you don't always see it until your outside of it. Like bad relationships.



...dog's age, but at least in its late teens...The dog's been in bad shape - half crippled and in pain for almost year. Yesterday it became completely paralyzed in its hind quarters and completely lost control

They took it to a vet yesterday and the dog was given steroids - they were told IF the steroids work, the dog should regain mobility today - it did not. It just struggles and cries and shakes. (They paid $900 for x-rays & medicine. They were told a surgery could be performed with no guarantees, that may not work or may kill the dog due to its health & age for $9000!)

Opinions?
Sad for the dog and sad for the owner...The vet is a huckster, bad as some dentist. If it was a young dog and had a very good chance of being really helped by surgery for $9000, then maybe if one could afford it. But in it's condition it won't survive the surgery. Time to buy a new puppy.



Sad for the dog and sad for the owner...The vet is a huckster, bad as some dentist. If it was a young dog and had a very good chance of being really helped by surgery for $9000, then maybe if one could afford it. But in it's condition it won't survive the surgery. Time to buy a new puppy.
How is the vet a huckster for simply offering the option? From what Steel described it sounds like the owner was informed of the prognosis for each treatment option and - without knowing what the surgery is exactly (as well as some other details like whether it would be a specialist performing the surgery or just a regular DVM) - there's no way to comment on the cost. (Also if the vet were to not offer all of the options for treatment they could potentially be making themselves vulnerable to a malpractice case.)

As to what can be done: The answer is nothing. The dog's owners have to come to the decision to euthanize on their own and, as painful as it may be to see and hear that dog struggle, they are providing veterinary care for the dog and so are within their legal rights to keep on going as they are.



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This is for @Miss Vicky, but what about neighbors who won't put down a long suffering dog?

I'm not sure of the dog's age, but at least in its late teens.

I'm not being a hard guy as I totally understand not wanting to kill your best friend, even if it is out of mercy, but for an animal that has become half paralyzed, can't go up or down stairs anymore, has lost all control of its bowels & bladder and shakes constantly (no one knows if this is from cold, pain, fear or an old-age Parkinson's type ailment, or maybe a combination of so many problems), what options are there?

The dog's been in bad shape - half crippled and in pain for almost year. Yesterday it became completely paralyzed in its hind quarters and completely lost control (it had been losing control for a long time and going in the house repeatedly despite being well house broken - I know, I dogsat a few weeks ago and had to clean up a huge mess when I left the house for a little while. Sitting for this dog was like sitting for a bed-ridden human).

They took it to a vet yesterday and the dog was given steroids - they were told IF the steroids work, the dog should regain mobility today - it did not. It just struggles and cries and shakes. (They paid $900 for x-rays & medicine. They were told a surgery could be performed with no guarantees, that may not work or may kill the dog due to its health & age for $9000!)

Today the owner was trying to walk the dog around the yard by using a make-shift sling to hold it's back end up off the ground.

Opinions?

It sounds like the dog's owners care very much about the dog because they're willing to spend the money to try to save the dog, but they just can't bear to put the dog down. It's not an easy decision to make, especially when the vet gives you an option that sounds like it might help the dog live a bit longer.

I recently went through this same situation with my rabbit. The vet told me that my rabbit was very sick, but they could try a few different options that might give us some more time with the rabbit. My first question wasn't how much it would cost. It was whether or not the vet thought the rabbit was in pain. As soon as the vet told me that the rabbit was probably in pain, and at most we would probably only get a few more weeks with any kind of treatment, I knew that the right decision was that we had to put the rabbit down, regardless of how much that hurt us emotionally. I just couldn't imagine letting the rabbit live in pain for even one more day, just because we didn't want to let go.
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Yikes. #adoptdontshop
Yes, you're right!...I didn't actually mean to say buy a dog, just overly fast typing... I was trying to say time for a new puppy. We always have had rescue pets, I do believe in that.



People who mess up superlatives, which happens all the times these days. Someone I follow just tweeted that her favorite rescue kitten is the “most shy” of the litter. No need for 2 words here since there is a perfectly good adjective already: shyest. Shy, shyer, shyest. Good, better, best. Worse, worser, worst. Etc., etc.



People who mess up superlatives, which happens all the times these days. Someone I follow just tweeted that her favorite rescue kitten is the “most shy” of the litter. No need for 2 words here since there is a perfectly good adjective already: shyest. Shy, shyer, shyest. Good, better, best. Worse, worser, worst. Etc., etc.
I'm disinclined to use certain adjectives, similar to "shyest", as I sometimes just don't like the sound .



That my incompetent piece of **** coworker that threw my pet's cremains in the dumpster didn't get fired because my boss is a coward.

Speaking of cowards, said piece of **** coworker never even apologized for what she did and has been avoiding me ever since the urn was found.

On the bright side, she gave her notice yesterday so we'll soon be rid of her.



How grocery store employees ignore the customers using self check.
Just had the opposite problem and it was equally annoying.

I'm sick and have been dealing with a lot of BS at work and was feeling exceptionally anti-social when I went to the store this morning so I went through self-check. Among my items were a couple of large bags of cat litter and the employee that was monitoring self-check (for once there was actually someone doing that at this particular store) yelled out "Are you sure you don't want to go to a regular register? You'll have to lift those to scan them." I told her I was fine where I was and then manually keyed in the item number for the litter and then selected "skip bagging" (no lifting needed!). Then I scanned another item, put it back in the cart, and selected "skip bagging." The same employee yelled out "it'll only let you skip bagging on three items and then it'll lock up." I just ignored her and checked out for that transaction - of three items.

If I don't ask for your assistance, please leave me alone.



Halloween/trick or treaters. Yesterday was probably the last time we'll hit 60 degrees until next spring so She Who Must Be Obeyed and myself decided it would be a good day to get all the yard work done. Problem was we forgot it was trick or treat day and didn't pick up any candy so when she saw some kids coming down the block she got a bit worried and high tailed it into the house. I told her to hand out the fortune cookies. For some reason we've been collecting them things for years but she wasn't having any of that so, in a panic, she went and grabbed about 6 bags of candy and....we didn't get another group of kids all day. Now we have all this candy and the only thing she grabbed that's any good are the Twizzlers.



Yeah, we've got a similar problem. I think our first ever year in the new house, we got a pretty decent stream of kids. And either every single year since, or nearly ever year since (like eight years!), we've gotten a tiny fraction of that. Once or twice, virtually nobody. It's bizarre. We end up with extra candy every year just because we'd rather have too much than not enough.