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| Lots of BBs in Texas so since this happened to me yesterday, and I had no clue until my little dog (who is my Velcro and precious friend) got taken away from me to live in a cage for 10 days...Texas has bite laws in place. If a dog in Texas bites someone, be it a tech or vet in a clinic, or someone on the street, by a 1981 rabies control law: the dog is legally to be placed in quarantine, REGARDLESS of current vaccination record or not.
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-dog-consolidated-dog-laws#s826...
My dogs will never go in a vets office again without muzzles of my own. Better 20 minutes of discomfort than 10 days in a cage. My little dog snapped the tech, tech insisted on going to hospital, vet clinic policy called in Animal Control, who took it from there. Please read up on your laws and protect your dog! |
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Location: Florida.. | Oh no poor thing.... but Most of our vets will put a soft muzzle on dog to do anything these days.first thing they would do to my rottie if they were going to do anything and she was not nasty but you just never know.. dogs get scared.. |
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Location: Moving soon..... | IMO Vet tech was wrong. Every vet that I go to they always put a mussle on them or ask me to hold their head. She was inexperienced if she was bitten. There are procedures that you need to follow in order to keep this from happening. |
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| If you are a vet or a tech you put yourself in a line of fire....things of this nature will happen. You will be kicked, stomped, bit, ect..... but you do your job out of love for the animal. If a little bite sent this gal to the hospital and your dog to 10 days behind bars, the tech needs to find another career. |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | I never in my dozen or so years as a tech in Texas saw this happen. If I was bitten by a client's dog or cat...and it had a current vaccination record...we did nothing beyond care for the injury. Further...as my job was considered a risk...I was prophylactically vaccinated against Rabies and tested for a proper titer every year. It was just part of the gig.
Since that guideline/law has been on the books since the 80's...and I was a tech in the 90's...I just wonder what has changed. Is it just the litigious nature of society? Or something about the policies of that particular clinic/vet?
So sorry this happened to you. Just as any horse can kick...any dog can bite. It was my job as a tech to safely and humanely restrain the animal. If I got bitten (which was rare)...I took responsibility for that. Soft muzzles are a dog's friend too. |
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Location: MD | The vet tech is out of line. Mine who they take back to the lab area to administer shots, they put on a table( like the dog groomers do) have a soft muzzle, and a second tech to restrain the dog from thrashing and injuring himself or others. That's just out of line and you might have grounds for a dispute with the office.( contact an attorney in case they try to fight the bite.)
Besides the fact that she should have put the muzzle on in the first place... Where was her own sense of self preservation????
You poor thing, and your poor dog. :(
ETA: if they were willing to lock your dog up for 10 days they may be willing to be nasty about it and argue over the dog.
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| Warriors Mom - 2016-02-11 8:18 AM If you are a vet or a tech you put yourself in a line of fire....things of this nature will happen. You will be kicked, stomped, bit, ect..... but you do your job out of love for the animal. If a little bite sent this gal to the hospital and your dog to 10 days behind bars, the tech needs to find another career.
Just what I was thinking... |
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Location: Florida.. | Crowned Image - 2016-02-11 9:23 AM The vet tech is out of line. Mine who they take back to the lab area to administer shots, they put on a table( like the dog groomers do) have a soft muzzle, and a second tech to restrain the dog from thrashing and injuring himself or others. That's just out of line and you might have grounds for a dispute with the office.( contact an attorney in case they try to fight the bite.) Besides the fact that she should have put the muzzle on in the first place... Where was her own sense of self preservation???? You poor thing, and your poor dog. :( ETA: if they were willing to lock your dog up for 10 days they may be willing to be nasty about it and argue over the dog.
I agree.. she needs to get a new a job.. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Its a sue me world out there. And a you owe me world.
I would not be surprised if a bill doesn't show up at your house.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Sounds like she deserved to be bitten. I hope it hurt. A lot. |
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Location: That part of Texas | classicpotatochip - 2016-02-11 7:38 AM Lots of BBs in Texas so since this happened to me yesterday, and I had no clue until my little dog (who is my Velcro and precious friend ) got taken away from me to live in a cage for 10 days...Texas has bite laws in place. If a dog in Texas bites someone, be it a tech or vet in a clinic, or someone on the street, by a 1981 rabies control law: the dog is legally to be placed in quarantine, REGARDLESS of current vaccination record or not. https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-dog-consolidated-dog-laws#s826... My dogs will never go in a vets office again without muzzles of my own. Better 20 minutes of discomfort than 10 days in a cage. My little dog snapped the tech, tech insisted on going to hospital, vet clinic policy called in Animal Control, who took it from there. Please read up on your laws and protect your dog!
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| Thank you so much for sharing this. I had not idea, and I do have a weenie dog who bites. |
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Location: IL | Wow, I'm so sorry that happened to you and your fur baby! I would be distraught if someone took my dog away from me and kept her in a cage for 10 days. And I agree with what others have said, I'd say that tech needs to find a new career. The techs in my vet office have told me before that getting bit just comes with the territory sometimes. She said they do their best to restrain the animal so they can't bite, or they will soft muzzle if needed, but every so often it happens. She said as long as the animal is up to date on their vaccinations, they don't worry about it. |
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Location: Northwest Florida | That is ridiculous! I've previously worked as a tech and cannot imagine making a big deal out of bite. Nips, bites, scratches are a part of the job! And you know it was nothing serious if it's just a little dog. I'm so sorry.
I would be on the hunt for a new vet. It may be "law" but enforcing it is not a common practice. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | I work at our local vet clinic. We've gotten bit and scratched and whatever, never once have we thought to contact Animal Control over them...that's crazy! |
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Location: N Texas | If she goes to the hospital for every little thing, then she needs to find a new line of work. She must be real fun to work with, I'm sure the clinic didn't want to go as far as they did, but had to. I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't last long at that clinic.
I used to have a boss that was nuts. I worked at a credit union, and she was using the coin counter and somehow smashed her finger. It was so minor, but she made a big deal about it, walking around with ice on it for the rest of the day, and even filed a workplace injury report. She never even went to the doctor and was fine the next day. Some people are just dramatic. |
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| My question is if you have vaccination records that prove rabies have been given what is the point of keeping them for 10 days? To monitor something? What is the magical number with 10 days I guess is what I am wondering? Or do they give a rabies test to make sure? |
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Location: on a horse | Warriors Mom - 2016-02-11 8:18 AM
If you are a vet or a tech you put yourself in a line of fire....things of this nature will happen. You will be kicked, stomped, bit, ect..... but you do your job out of love for the animal. If a little bite sent this gal to the hospital and your dog to 10 days behind bars, the tech needs to find another career.
Amen to this. Agree with muzzle but if tech or vet that is there and possibility of job hazard, obviously needs a new job. And I would definitely be looking for new vet |
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Location: Wherever the Army sends my husband | Because vaccines can fail. Its not common but it can happen. I work as a tech and I worked as animal control on Texas. By law, medical professionals (human) are required to report any bite or scratch that breaks the skin to animal control. Animal Control is required by law to take a bite report and put the animal in 10 day quarantine. Now, every city/county is different on this part. In the city I worked in, if the pet was current on his rabies vaccine and was not running loose then a home quarantine was done. Meaning the pet could stay at home for the 10 period. The 10 days is determine that the pet was not contagious with rabies at the time of the bite. It does not mean the pet doesn't have rabies, just that the bitten person has no risk of contracting the virus. Rabies is deadly and only a small handful of people has survived clinical signs (back in my day it was one girl in WI). Although, there is an average incubation period, there have been documentation of cases with 2 day up to months. Even if an animal had rabies, its only contagious when it has reached the salivary glands. Although the 10 day quarantine is PITA and is usually a waste of time, people do still die from it here in the US. Usually from contact with an infected animal or pet and the person blows it off as no big deal. Most of the time those few people that die aren't recognized as having rabies till after they have passed. As rabies is so uncommon that your average ACO is more informed than your average physician. So point is, its usually no big deal but the 10 day quarantine is not a punishment for your pet. Its a safety measure.Oops thought I had quited RHRanch. Also wanted to add that testing for rabies is done after an animal is put to sleep as they test the brain tissue.
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Location: Central Texas | classicpotatochip - 2016-02-11 7:38 AM
Lots of BBs in Texas so since this happened to me yesterday, and I had no clue until my little dog (who is my Velcro and precious friend ) got taken away from me to live in a cage for 10 days...Texas has bite laws in place. If a dog in Texas bites someone, be it a tech or vet in a clinic, or someone on the street, by a 1981 rabies control law: the dog is legally to be placed in quarantine, REGARDLESS of current vaccination record or not.
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/tx-dog-consolidated-dog-laws#s826...
My dogs will never go in a vets office again without muzzles of my own. Better 20 minutes of discomfort than 10 days in a cage. My little dog snapped the tech, tech insisted on going to hospital, vet clinic policy called in Animal Control, who took it from there. Please read up on your laws and protect your dog!
Thanks for sharing this. I will never take mine in again without my own soft muzzle. Not taking any chances with my fur babies. I hope the 10 days pass really quickly and you two are reunited! |
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