Vote Now: Stories from the Vet ER 🐾

Whatsup, MuFKRs! 🐾

Welcome back to Is It an Emergency? — the place where healthcare workers (and this week, our four-legged patients 🐕‍🦺) get their moment in the chaotic spotlight.

This week’s theme: Day in the Life of a Vet ER

Long hours, unpredictable cases, and patients who can’t talk — working in veterinary medicine means being ready for just about anything.

But it’s not always the critical emergencies that leave a lasting impression. Sometimes, it’s the awkward interactions, the odd discoveries, or the moments that make you stop and think, “Did that really just happen?”

👉 Cast Your Vote: Which story sums up “just another day in the vet ER”?

I am a veterinarian and I had an emergency come in at lunch time. Lady stated that she was washing her dog and a huge boil ruptured in his abdomen. Had the lady show me the boil and grabbed his penis and shouted "there it is!" I looked up slowly and said "ma'am that's his penis." She gasped, released his penis and said "I have three sons! OMG this really shows you how long it's been since I have seen a penis!" We laughed our asses off and I couldn't even charge her the emergency fee!

Im a vet tech and I caused a divorce because the dog ate a pair of lacy thongs that was not the wife’s and the husband had dropped the dog off and the wife picked the dog up a day later and I showed her the thong and she said “those are not mine! Can you keep my dog here for a little bit while I contact a lawyer” and walked out of the ER.

I'm an ER vet nurse and we recently had a dog so compacted from such a high protein diet we had to sedate and use gravity to help us remove the poop from the dogs entire GI tract. To do this we draped the dog over a wet table and started scooping with our fingers and tongue depressors.....

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Cheers to another week of ER adventures, MuFKRs!

— Steven