Today? Sucked. A lot of little things went wrong, some of which were my fault, some sick animals, some bodily fluids... oh yeah, and a puppy died during her spay procedure.

Eleven slagsucking months old. Anaphylactic shock. Fuck the world, man.

*throws self on floor, has a minor tantrum, curls up and sniffles* Someone cheer me up?

Remember this business from a couple weeks ago? (Animal cruelty and the attendant ranting.)

Well, the dog's owner has been turned in to the authorities - I want to say the Humane Society, but I'm not sure - by her own daughter. The doctor who saw the dog is being asked to corroborate, which she is doing. The daughter also apparently said that the ( Read more... )

Posting this to no real purpose aside from venting. Warnings for animal abuse, graphic wound description, and May Make You Hate Humanity.

( This is about as bad as it gets. )

So, a client and her daughter come into the exam room, hand the dog off to the doctor to be weighed, and head off to the bathroom. After they left, the doctor looked at me and said, "That little girl just handed me the leash to her imaginary dog ( Read more... )

Lady. Lady. It's an e-collar, not a icepick to the skull. Get over yourself.

(Seriously, when the doc brought up the e-collar the owner looked like we were offering to amputate the cat's head. I predict Non-Compliant Patient Syndrome.)

So I showed the munky video to the people at work (because we have nothing else to do right now, thank you town festival), and one of the ladies said of Primal, "He's a gay superhero!"

I died.

Other than that, they didn't get it, but they laughed. So I'm pretty happy. ^_^

(Why don't I have any Primal icons, guys?)

I'm tired. My back has been killing me all day. I have way too much stuff to get done this evening, and so inevitably today was the day we got so far behind at work that we had to stay an extra 45 minutes to get every patient in.

Someone cheer me up? *chibi*

It's been an interesting day ( Read more... )

Those of you who follow me on Twitter have already gotten this headline, but here's the full story ( Read more... )

So a dog died during a routine dental cleaning today. I was watching the vitals and everything was normal until it just - went south. All at once. It happened so quickly ( Read more... )