Last vet visit for a while
Wow,
Finally, all the distemper/parvo/rabies shots are done. I picked up enough heartworm for the next six months.
This visit went better than the last. Even though my vet does not understand my techniques with Rudi. She seems to think that any mouthing is dangerous. I just took it with a grain of salt. I can put my face to his and kiss him without worry of getting nipped and when he does mouth on my face it is just him respecting me and showing me that he will not bite.
She still wanted his testicles. She could not say enough about how I am making some dire mistake in letting him remain intact. (I swear if she did not have kids I might think she was a testicle-hater) LOL Geez, he is four months old, let the kid hangloose for a bit. I really do not want him neutered. I respect those that do, but I cannot understand why the mental development with a normal dose of hormone in his early years cannot be respected. I kept my last dog intact for five years and my only reason he lost them then was that he began marking my furniture when some group of lap-muts moved in up stairs from me at the time. He was no worse for wear for it and lived a ripe 18 years old.
Her receptionist told me that she has issues with seeing a set of charms hanging behind adult male dogs. I guess she has been hanging around the vet too long. I told her that eveyone should just let them hang in the wind LOL, they are just testicles for heaven's sake.
So I guess I am not doing too badly as a parent. I am sure in six months to a year she will see that he is doing very good. I think (parental bias) that my boy is the best behaved kid on the block!
I did opt not to get him microchipped. I really will have to take a bit more time considering it. I really am agreeable with technology it is just that our own animal control does not use it and would be very few vets around these parts. I am sure as time passes more and more this technology will be embraced, but as I see it if my future does have a path it will be to move farther and farther away from society anyways.
Well that was my dreaded vet visit. Rudi handled everything like a champ. Even the ride there he curled up on the bench seat of the truck without a fuss on both the trip there and the return.
Huggs, Ron
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lol - Ron the testicle part of this email cracked me up... I had this vision of the vet being like Gollum looking character trying to get your dogs boys.... "my precious..."
Anyway, I'm glad to hear Rudi is done w/ all the vet action.
My yorkie/westie mix was neutered at 5 months because he was so full of hormones I knew we were in trouble. Unfortunately, he died of heart complications at age 9. My peek-a-poo was never spade and she lived to be a ripe age of 14.
I feel we, as humans, age as our hormones decline and have been very reluctant to neuter my male Shiba. Not necessarily because I wanted to breed him, but because I also wanted to allow him to mature, mentally, emotionally and physically before I did what was 'best for me'. At 7.5 months I have now made the decision to have his surgery (scheduled tomorrow). I suppose I want him to remain happy and non-aggressive at dog parks and on the hiking trails, activities we both love doing together. He's just not as large as those hormones may tell him he is and I don't want any fights.
So, I hope I am doing what is 'best for him' and not just myself.