Hey all. Tomorrow I take my poor Pandora to the vet, bright and early, for her 7th UTI in 8 months. This will be the third time I've had to physically take her in, and its nothing pretty when we go.
She's a sensitive creature and despises being touched by strangers under the best circumstances...so at the vet, I can hear her screaming and wailing in protest for the simplest of procedures. She often urinates out of fury and will work herself up into a tizzy. I'm always sobbing in the room by myself listening to it; I abhor having to hear it but would never walk out. If she's going through it, so am I.
The vet and techs are always extraordinary attentive and will check in on me frequently, letting me know that she's ok and just singing her grievances.
Tomorrow, she's going to have to have some complicated tests done - and I wonder if it might be more humane to request that she be sedated beforehand. I'm not entirely sure why they never offered to do it before, but then again, they've never tried radio-graphing my little fractious sweetie-pie before.
Do you think I should request her to be sedated, or would she be better off doing this stuff sober?
She's a sensitive creature and despises being touched by strangers under the best circumstances...so at the vet, I can hear her screaming and wailing in protest for the simplest of procedures. She often urinates out of fury and will work herself up into a tizzy. I'm always sobbing in the room by myself listening to it; I abhor having to hear it but would never walk out. If she's going through it, so am I.
The vet and techs are always extraordinary attentive and will check in on me frequently, letting me know that she's ok and just singing her grievances.
Tomorrow, she's going to have to have some complicated tests done - and I wonder if it might be more humane to request that she be sedated beforehand. I'm not entirely sure why they never offered to do it before, but then again, they've never tried radio-graphing my little fractious sweetie-pie before.
Do you think I should request her to be sedated, or would she be better off doing this stuff sober?