If expectations are managed ahead of time, everyone will leave a visit with a feeling of success. It is important that you find a vet that matches with you in terms of your view on pet ownership and philosophy on health care.
If a client who wants to focus on quality of life gets matched with a veterinarian who is focused on extending life, that relationship might become contentious, because the client and veterinarian may have trouble understanding the other viewpoint.
Veterinarians encounter a lot of different people, and successful veterinarians try to meet the client at their level and help the client achieve their goals for the animal.
Unless your pet will readily take pills in a treat, it is a pain to give medications to your animal. Veterinarians understand that. It is important to be honest with your vet about what medications your animal actually received. How an animal responds to a treatment is a diagnostic test in and of itself.
I have had some clients that I know feel very trapped in a relationship with their pet. Now this relationship is no fun for either owner or dog. Relationships, whether human-to-human or human-to-animal, require work and understanding. Talking to a professional is very helpful.
For simple problems, start by consulting your family veterinarian. If the problem is more complex, or if there is concern for injury to a person or another animal, your vet may recommend that you see a behavior specialist.
Most animals live 10—12 years or more. Skip to content. Please know that during this very difficult time, it is OK to not be decisive. It is OK to spend money on counseling. Sadly, the best way to deal with many problems is not to treat at all.
Small animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits should be put to sleep if they present with an illness that can't be easily rectified with a dose of antibiotics. Their lives should not be prolonged at all cost.
If your cat or dog gets cancer you should not, in my opinion, subject it to long, torturous treatment. Nor should cats that are run over and experience a complex injury or bladder problems - sadly an all-too-common feature of road accidents as the car catches the back of the cat as it tries to escape - endure lots of operations in the hope that the problems can be cured.
One problem is that overtreating pets has been made to look as if it is normal by programmes such as the BBC's Super Vets, last shown in , where it was usual to subject animals that, frankly, should have been put to sleep to whatever it took to get them well.
This is cruel as caging an animal for a long time is not, in my view, thinking of its 'welfare'. Which brings me to another issue that helps vets to carry out these expensive and totally unnecessary procedures - pet insurance. These days, pet insurance is pushed as a 'necessity'. Sit in any vet's surgery and you are left in no doubt as you survey the dozens of adverts for it that 'good' owners have it while 'bad' owners do not.
So unsurprisingly, the average middle-class family feels more comfortable having this insurance. They have medical insurance for their children, so it's only natural that they want the same for their family dog or cat.
Worryingly, if you have pet insurance you can be sure your vet is more likely to offer your pet treatments - because your vet knows you won't be paying so you can afford it.
But, however you look at it, insurance is simply a licence to print money. Unfortunately, the only creatures insurance helps are vets. If you are a loving owner you will not want to put your pet through cruel, lengthy and costly procedures. And as this is all insurers cover - they do not provide for any useful essentials such as neutering, vaccinations or teeth cleaning - there is no point to them. But vets aren't only guilty of treating animals when there is no problem.
Sadly they are guilty of creating problems in the first place. Take bulldogs. They have been hideously bred to have a characteristic collapsed face.
This restricts breathing and stops them panting properly. Ridiculous as it may seem, they have also created an animal that can't breathe fast enough to have sex. So a bulldog must be artificially inseminated by a vet using a general anaesthetic. Once pregnant, the bulldog faces another dreadful side effect, again caused by breeding. Bulldogs have such a small pelvis that most are unable to give birth naturally. So 90 per cent of bulldogs require a Caesarean.
If the vet were truly putting the animal first, he would refuse to inseminate a bulldog in the first place. Instead, to ensure the welfare of the bulldog, vets should be insisting that pregnancies only occur in bulldogs that can mate naturally. But, of course, they won't say that or refuse the breeder's wishes - after all, as a vet you are making money out of all of these medical procedures.
I find it outrageous that, given their role, any vet criticises Cruft's for exhibiting these dog breeds. After all, it is the vets themselves who have aided and abetted these atrocities. And this practice certainly isn't confined to bulldogs. We have daschunds bred with elongated spines so they look 'attractive' for their breed. But these sausage dogs are prone to slipped discs and back problems which, in turn, makes more money for vets who do many operations a year to 'help' these issues most of which do not work and cause more suffering to the dog.
We have cats that can't breathe because of their overly flat noses and weep constantly from eyes that are too large, other cats and dogs without fur that can't go out in the sunshine as they will burn.
The current fashionable craze for miniature dogs is also damaging. These dogs are prized on their tininess - so the smallest dogs are chosen but in reality these are the runts of the litter that used to be allowed to die as they were so weak.
In turn vets are simply creating weaker animals. They are going against the force of nature, Charles Darwin's natural selection. And because weaker animals are surviving they need more medical care from vets who force them to survive. This is great news for vets and the reason for their proliferation. But surely not for animal welfare, which they pledged, when they took their veterinary oath, to put first. Common sense must prevail. A loving pet owner does not humanise their cat or dog but realises it is an animal.
The loving owner does not want to maximise their pet's life at any cost but puts their animal's welfare first. Do not fear the death of your pet when the time comes. Instead, embrace it and ensure your pet has a good death in the same way you gave it a good life.
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