Why bother?

[draggonlaady]

Why is it that the Millers have this compulsion to frustrate me by asking me something and then either arguing with or completely ignoring my answer?

Mr Miller asked me on the phone last night if he should put cayenne pepper on the dog's ear to make it stop bleeding. I very specifically told him no, because it would burn and irritate the tissue. In those words. Just flip the ear inside out, and bandage it to the head, and the pressure will stop the bleeding, said I.

Yet when Mrs Miller brings in the dog, she's very proud of herself for the fact that they got the bleeding stopped by coating the ear in cayenne powder. What the fuck?!? The skin of the entire face of the ear was bright red and irritated from soaking in this pepper under the bandage.

And when I made a comment about keeping the dog home so she stops getting injured, Mrs Miller blew it off with "well she was only out to go potty." Yeah. Apparently--she was out to go potty somewhere that she managed to snag her ear on something and tear it open, which makes it highly unlikely that she was remaining safely in the yard. These people are not just ignorant, it's like they're determined to stay as stupid as possible!

Comments

[hyllian.livejournal.com]

Wonder if you have a sign that says "We reserve the right to reserve services." Don't know the ethics in that, but it seems that people are too stupid to know when to listen to their licensed practitioners. And if the animal happens to die, they blame the LPs.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

we are well within our rights to refuse to work for people. but economically, it's not feasible to ditch all the people that annoy us. We have fired a handful of people (4 that I know of) that were absolutely uncivil and could not be worked for. Perhaps those stories shall be my next posting...

but in reality, what happens is basically, we tell them "we don't work for you. let us know what clinic you'll be going to, and we'll happily send them your records." and that's it. it's their problem if they have more problems. we have no legal obligation to work for anyone, beyond the obvious--we can't respond to something and then quit in the middle, and if someone carries a critter in bleeding and gasping, we'll stabilize and then figure out what's next.

[evil-egg.livejournal.com]

Aarrgghh. Somebody please shoot them.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have a nice list of people who might benefit from random assaulting, if you have the need to take out some frustrations.