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Well, my esteem for the Damn, filthy, bloody procrastinating bloke who called last night has dropped another 3 pegs. He's now just about 2" above where he'd be if he HADN'T brought the puppy in today. On emergency of course--even after last night's conversation he couldn't bother to come in during office hours today. Oh, hell no. He waits until after we close again.
So some more information to add to what he told me yesterday--seems that 4 of the 6 pups in this litter have already died after showing the same damn signs. Don't you think maybe you should have BROUGHT THEM ALL IN AFTER THE FIRST ONE DIED?!?!?
Puppy got sick 3 1/2 weeks ago, had her one and only parvo/distemper vaccine 3 weeks ago--after she was already sick, so not only is it not going to protect her from what she already has, it probably won't protect her against anything else either. For those that don't know, pups should have a series of vaccines starting at 6-8 weeks old, and given every 3-4 weeks until they're 16 weeks old. This pup got one shot at 17 weeks.
Presumptive diagnosis? Why... distemper with secondary bacterial pneumonia! what fun! It's presumptive because the people don't have enough money to send samples to the lab for viral isolation, but I'm fairly certain it'd come back positive. So now they're looking at several hundred dollars of vet bills to keep the puppy alive (maybe) and if it does survive, there's about a 50% chance that it'll develop neurologic abnormalities.
Because they couldn't be bothered to fucking vaccinate.
$6 a shot if you buy them at the feed store X 4 shots = $24/puppy X 6 pups = $144.
No shots = 4 dead puppies and >$300 in vet bills.
Why the hell are people so fucking stupid, and why do they take it out on the dogs!?
So some more information to add to what he told me yesterday--seems that 4 of the 6 pups in this litter have already died after showing the same damn signs. Don't you think maybe you should have BROUGHT THEM ALL IN AFTER THE FIRST ONE DIED?!?!?
Puppy got sick 3 1/2 weeks ago, had her one and only parvo/distemper vaccine 3 weeks ago--after she was already sick, so not only is it not going to protect her from what she already has, it probably won't protect her against anything else either. For those that don't know, pups should have a series of vaccines starting at 6-8 weeks old, and given every 3-4 weeks until they're 16 weeks old. This pup got one shot at 17 weeks.
Presumptive diagnosis? Why... distemper with secondary bacterial pneumonia! what fun! It's presumptive because the people don't have enough money to send samples to the lab for viral isolation, but I'm fairly certain it'd come back positive. So now they're looking at several hundred dollars of vet bills to keep the puppy alive (maybe) and if it does survive, there's about a 50% chance that it'll develop neurologic abnormalities.
Because they couldn't be bothered to fucking vaccinate.
$6 a shot if you buy them at the feed store X 4 shots = $24/puppy X 6 pups = $144.
No shots = 4 dead puppies and >$300 in vet bills.
Why the hell are people so fucking stupid, and why do they take it out on the dogs!?
