OWH Memorial Undead Topic

Aren't you a mod?

 

I'm too important to be a mod. Too smart too.

 

Found out this weekend that my 10 year old beagle has heart disease. Did blood work, x-rays, and an ultrasound. She even has her own cardiologist. Looks like she'll be alright, but on heart medicine the rest of her life.

 

my beagle has a heart murmur, but we have not gone for the doggy cardiologist yet. I just don't see what they are gonna do.

 

Got my phone unlock sorted, and I got a new SIM card. Haven't changed it yet. Not that it's directly related, but I am debating whether to port my old number somewhere to hang onto it or just let it die. I've never been crazy about a 205 area code.

 

We're using the cardiologist to calculate the proper dosage for medication.

 

How many pills per cardiologist?

 

1. Confirm murmur / nothing they can do, and
2. Charge 5x more
3. Profit

 

I didn't even know an animal cardiologist was a thing.

 

there are also eye specialists, which I had to use to remove a choc labs eye, and orthopedic specialists who charge 4k or dog acl surgery, which involves taking away the acl and performing a wedge osteotomy, in case anybody has dog acl issues come up. I assume old procedures saw many failures with repairing the acl, so they came up with a new technique.

 

No wonder the world hates us.

 

Dogs are infinitely better than almost all humans, and therefore worth it.

 

Reminds me of an experience I had at a vet clinic where one of the vets was hot on trying me to get surgery for our miniature poodle we had at the time. Guy was putting on the pressure to get the surgery done quickly, showed me the x-rays, tried to shame me in front of my daughter, and finally gave me some literature describing the condition. I cannot recall the name of it for the life of me, but a relatively quick Google search landed me excerpts from a scholarly article on the condition that included the little tidbit that most canines heal to approximately 85% of the original capacity of the joint within 2 or 3 weeks of the onset of symptoms with no treatment. No wonder the jackass wanted to operate so fast it would make your head swim. I had told him the dog had been limping for a couple of weeks and that my wife had insisted on him being brought in. We waited a few days, and Yogi went back to trotting around the house and out in the yard like nothing was wrong. Little fellow never darkened the doorstep of that clinic again. I might have gotten the dog surgery if it was reasonably affordable and the dog showed obvious symptoms of pain beyond favoring it or if he was some sort of working dog or competed in some sort of doggy athletic contests. For his purposes like wandering around the house, sitting in my lap and sharing a few licks of backwash from a beer bottle during a football game, 85% seemed like enough.

 

I spent 2000 coconuts on a cat. A piece of shit cat. I will never trust my wife to make a logical decision again

 

Well, I took Ole Mousse into the emergency vet one time. Nice bill I received. His eye had funk all over it and looked odd, they said it was an eye infection and gave me drops. A few days later it looks like his eye is gonna pop out any second. Someone suggested this horse vet. Ends up a detached retina among other things, so they removed it. He was good a day later. I took pics to the emergency vet and thanked him for the misdiagnosis. Don't [uck fay] with my dogs,

 

Should've shot it.

 

Played 18 down here in dirty Myrtle today.

Had a streak on the back nine of 6 straight birdies. Shot even par. Use your imagination for the front nine.

 

I would pay $5k to save my dog’s ACL before I would pay $5 to save Tenny’s life.

 

You spent the money. And you trusted your wife...

Sounds like you’re the illogical idiot, tbh.

 

My best friend is a veterinarian.

He’s at a beach in South Carolina learning how to do surgery on chickens for work this week.

Apparently that’s the new big thing with people with money since backyard flocks are so popular now.

A chicken is worth about 15 to 20 dollars but let’s have a surgery on it worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.