An · Erraich

Ahem.

For your reading pleasure, a rant.

Here we go.

Your vet is not McDonald's, they are not serving you as quickly as possible, but as well as they can for the sake and health of your pet. If this is quick, then that's good, but if not, be patient.

Your vet does not come with a money back guarantee. She does the best she can with the knowledge she has based on what you tell her and what she can deduce from the animal. Sometimes what she tries does not work. Sometimes she has to try something different. That's the way it is. Get over it.

Your vet is a business, but it's not a store. We're not an auto repair shop, we're not selling perfect animals and we're not here to open your dog up and see what's wrong. We're also not selling custom made animals. If you can't deal with the fact that your cat is going to claw your furniture, your dog is going to chew your shoes, and both of them are going to pee, poo, and barf all over the carpet, then get a goldfish. Although I have to warn you, you're going to have to clean the tank from time to time.

Your vet is not Walgreens. Don't call after not bringing your animal in for like 5 years and expect her to give you whatever antibiotics or pain medication or narcotics you want. Also, don't expect her to cheerfully allow you to buy all your heartworm prevention, flea control, etc from some online black market highway robbery (yes, those places, 1-800-Petmeds and other like them, are STEALING from the vets, who already are severely underpaid) when you haven't had the decency to even vaccinate your damn animal in a decade.

Seriously.