Cool. My pup is at the vets office on average, once a month. They feel so bad about it, that they write every visit as a "re-check" regardless of what it is to make it cheaper for me.
She gets this funky skin infection going, that takes steroids to clear it up. She is on a maintenance dose of steroids daily, allergy medication, gets a tranquilizer for storms, 4th of July and New Years. And she's on special food...At first it was because they though that maybe she had a food allergy. Now it's because it's the only thing that she will eat. The dog has gone for 3 days without eating for simply not liking other foods. And the special diet food- about double what Iams or other good dog foods costs. Naturally. Females! Ahhhhh!!!! j/k.
The last trip was because one of her back toe nails fell off for no apparent reason. Now, I was told that normally when this happens, the dog will act like it has a broken leg. Not mine. Stoic. Had it not been for the blood, I wouldn't have known anything was wrong. The doc was even picking at the nerve endings with her finger nail while I was there and the dog didn't even flinch.
So, they took her in the back to clean and bandage it. When they were done, they took her off the table and noticed a puddle of blood. Hmmm. Where'd THAT come from? Looked and looked.... same nail, other foot fell off while they were bandaging up her other foot. No idea why, no yeast infections or anything else going on... once again, I stumped the pro's. I'm good at that.
So, they bring this poor resemblence of a dog out, with both back feet bandaged up, and inside IV bags because it was raining out and they didn't want the bandages to get wet. I knew that they were bringing my dog out, because I could hear the laughter gradually getting closer as they paraded her past the other rooms and into mine. Talk about a sorry looking mutt...with each step trying to shake off the bags. And she knew we were laughing at her...the ears were down, the eyes were droopy...so sad loking....just made it that much funnier!
Every trip is an adventure.