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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This Op, thanks for the replies.

I guess I was expecting them to at least walk me through what to do or bring her in for a physical exam or want to induce vomiting or give something that might block the absorption. Everything I read online said taking a wait and see approach was not the right method since it could be lethal if it started to get absorbed and digested.

I was on hold waiting for the pet poison control people for over 15 minutes and finally hung up. Decided to just wing it and induce vomiting on my own before too much time passed. Really a little guidance from the vet would have been nice, it was during regular office hours not an off time or anything, but thank goodness for the internet. 
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I had a similar experience. I totally understand that vets do not have toxicologists on staff. I also understand that pet poison control isn’t publicly funded, so they need some way to cover costs. In my most recent experience, poison control took over an hour to answer my call. It had already been an hour between the probable ingestion time and when I arrived at the animal hospital only to be told to call poison control. I ended up just asking the vet to induce vomiting because it seemed ludicrous to wait longer. I was particularly frustrated because my dog had eaten onion, and I knew nearly exactly how much by weight (by weighing the leftover onion on a kitchen scale). It seems like they should have toxicity information by weight for common things that dogs get into, like onion or chocolate.[/quote]

You do know that Veterinary offices are completely swamped right now because of all the COVID puppies? So yeah Poison Control is probably swamped too because of all the people getting puppies and letting them get into things because they have no idea what they were getting into.

Don't worry loads of these puppies will get dumped at the shelter soon and Veterinarians will get back to are reasonable work load.[/quote]

Yeah - vet here....sadly, the increased work load shows no sign of letting up...and neither do the cranky, entitled, unappreciative clients.....this is getting old......[/quote]

I'm a vet too-- hang in there until September. Summer is always busy and this summer will be no different-- people are starting to travel again so they need shots for boarding etc. Things usually calm down a bit in September anyway but I'm thinking that will be a tipping point back to reasonable because most school districts are going back in person. [/quote]

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