How is Covid affecting your hobbie?

[Trinityblood]

I could see that but when the on duty officer arrived and told them I was a police officer they could have quickly taken my dog in. They told that officer they didn't care who I was and were refusing me service because I was a big, intimidating guy.

What a terrible vet clinic. I can't even understand this reasoning. I'm sorry they put your dog's life at risk for such a reason. That's beyond unprofessional.

Aside from that, I have done the curbside vet thing. My herp vet is still doing curbside vet, as is the vet I go to for the rabbit rescue I volunteer for. I don't really enjoy it, only because I can't speak with the vet as easily and find I forget some questions I have when they call me on the phone in the parking lot (and the vet my rescue uses will often not even talk to me at all lol). My herp vet is okay... Bringing him our Japanese rat snake this week for his checkup. I just prefer actually going in because like, with my big adult iguana, he gets so much rage, and sometimes the techs are scared of him or need another person (me) to help restrain him properly. Also, my rabbit literally went into GI stasis from going to the vet without me last summer, because he was so stressed out. This didn't happen when I was there in previous years. So, that necessitated an emergency vet visit at 3 am a few days later, and a big chunk of cash on my then-COVID-unemployed self. Sigh. I get why the vets are still doing curbside, though; I'm just not taking my rabbit in for his yearly checkup until they change that.

I'm tired of the whole covid thing and the politics and social stigma surrounding it and masks. The government shutdowns have done more damage to people than Covid ever could have.

Because I can't go into vet clinics it costs me a couple extra hundred dollars. I told the vet about a lump and it was surgically removed. Turns out they saw a lump I didn't see and they didn't see the lump I saw. So one lump was removed and biopsied but not the other and my dog had to go in for a second surgery. I bought a puppy a month covid started ramping up and got him a week before the shutdowns. I've never been able to go into the clinic with him and he's over a year old now.

On the snake side it hasn't been much of an issue. I'm so glad I haven't needed to take him to a vet. There is no way I would be comfortable with curbside dropping off an exotic animal at a clinic I have never been in with vets I've never met.