It should be noted I am up and dressed so early because I'm working today.... but the list of clinics I would work at on Tibb's Eve is very short.
Basically, it's one clinic long.

But working with the team at Beachy Cove means hanging out with friends 🥰

Hope ye have a lovely day! 🎄

People suggesting Benadryl as a sedative gives me eye twitches.
Like, I know maybe a couple people who find it makes them feel really sleepy but SO MANY people think it is a sure bet sedative... and in particular they think it will sedate a high stress dog in any meaningful way 🙃

I will admit it was in the pile of "things I forgot about" until I read this article... and really it has been like a domino effect of remembering all the scariest things we learned about in vet school 🙃 lovely Sunday activity!

The technician was in a very remote (Northern Canada) area, hospital only option for vaccine. No travel clinics.
And I'm in Newfoundland, Canada - my doctor ordered a titre, and the lab literally didn't run it 🙃 (like, said no.)

It's really not taken seriously here 😒

(I should clarify - the technician wasn't looking for post exposure vaccine, she just wanted to be generally vaccinated. Which is strongly encouraged in other parts of the country where rabies is more prevalent.)

She replied "Okay, is it death? Because the risk of rabies is literally death." 😅🤦‍♀️

I have also been unable to get my titre done in years. It is alarming how much the human health care team does NOT know about rabies, just because the risk is so low here...

Somewhere I work where rabies IS a concern, a technician wanted to get vaccinated for rabies as a precaution after a concerning bite case (that wasn't rabies, but reminded clinic of the risk)...
...and the MD she saw said the risk of the vaccine wasn't worth it 🙃

Well, if I don't use "honkers bonkers" casually in my day today I will consider myself a failure.

(Already considering how to work it into a medical record 🤔 "Unable to assess bite as puppy was honkers bonkers" sounds legit, honestly...)

Wait. No. They do that?!?
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

For what it's worth, I remember them graduating and thought those episodes were very sweet 🥰

Reading comprehension skills are... um.... not strong on average these days.

I admit I sometimes miss that we're in a flashback, or forget a thing... but I can usually suss it out on my own with a little effort. Expending effort is also not strong these days, when thoughtless comments are so easy 🫠

Huh. I have officially lived in Newfoundland long enough I can't remember which words I did or did not use before I moved here 😅 Confirmed with friend from where I grew up in Ontario... sooky is not a thing there 😅

Bless the people at national meetings who never question me when I say sooky baby...

Good. Grief. 🙃

Oh, this is so lovely 😍

Though also, re:cost, also agree and I wish more clinics were mindful in their pricing of cytology so that step would be more palatable...

...but for large dogs, reaching for 2nd and 3rd line antibiotics is probably MORE expensive.

Agreed. I think the simplest statement is "I wish people would stop treating infections like they are simple and ignore the nuance." 😅

Like, why are so many quick to culture ears - when that is generally clinically not at all helpful - but never culture recurring UTIs? 🤔

I mean, at this point with many of the clinics I work at I would be thrilled if they did a culture at all 🫣

I can hear a veterinarian say "I'm going to switch to a stronger antibiotic" from a mile a way, and the passion with which I try to convince them to do a culture first is a bit unhinged 😅