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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is bananas. OP is relaying a scary experience that we should all be aware of as pet owners in the area. Yes, a lot of us adopted pets during the pandemic. My dog was living under a truck... is it better if we don't give dogs loving homes because it's hard to find veterinary care? I'm sorry this happened to you, OP, and I hope your dog is doing ok.[/quote]

The point is that other animals were ALSO experiencing emergencies. OP wants us to believe that she was "shut out" due to malice or laziness, but in reality the emergency vets were at capacity.

They can't bend space time to service OP.

So, yes, it's sad and frustrating and eye-opening but OP's tone sucks. [/quote]

I didn't get that implication at all- malice or laziness.  What I got is that she was frightened about possibly not getting help for her screaming dog. At no time did she suggest  she was denied, she just couldn't get help. You, PP, inserted a tone that was absent from her  post. I hope you aren't a vet. [/quote]

NP here.  Look at the last sentence of the OP:

[quote]WTF is going on. Are pets who need emergency care allowed to die?  [/quote]

This suggests that the vets and vet staff don't care if the pet has an emergency or not and that they are choosing to turn OP and her pet away.

That definitely conveys that OP believed that they were being malicious or lazy and chose not to take her pet in.

She also drove over to a hospital and was angry that they were at capacity and wouldn't let her in, instead of calling around from home and finding a vet emergency room that was still open and not at capacity.  She drove 20 minutes each way to find a pet hospital at capacity when she could have found that out in 2-3 minutes by checking.  She apparently seemed to think that they would have to let her in if she showed up at the door.  But she could have found out 35 minutes earlier that they were at capacity and called the Manassas hospital that much sooner and been on her way.

I understand that OP was distraught, but she chose her wording very poorly if she was just complaining about capacity limits and Covid-precautions.

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