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I’ve found a new thing I don’t like.

Body bags… that are flesh coloured.

#sorry but they are so not ‘dusky pink’

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Nothing major happened this time, just a new nurse (kids these days) that had left the front door unlocked while cleaning out back one morning, on her own for half an hour. The other nurse had called in sick.

The place looked deserted until I found her out back and had a quick talk about safety.

Because my workplace has been burgled at least 3 times that I know of. And I know of two incidents where a thief just followed a staff member in through the back door. Once to steal unattended purses and car keys. Once to get into the pharmacy, grab handfuls of stuff and walk out again.

So if you’re alone, you lock the door.

Listen, if you haven’t been told before, let me be the first one to tell you:

If you are working in a vet clinic alone, all by yourself, you lock the damn door.

This is especially important if you’re young and female but should apply to everybody.

It does not matter if you’re just about to open and another staff member will be there ‘soon’. It does not matter if you are expecting a client any minute now. It does not matter if it is the middle of the day because the vet is on a house call.

You are sitting, by yourself, in a building full of cash and drugs. You lock the damn door.

You can sit yourself down somewhere that you can see the door and be selective about who you let in, but otherwise you lock the damn door.

You do not want to find yourself in a FNAF situation trying to avoid the person with ill intent who walked in looking for drugs while you were out the back, or hanging up washing. You don’t want to look up after feeding a cat to realise somebody followed you in when they saw only one car in the car park.

Just lock the door.

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Listen, if you haven’t been told before, let me be the first one to tell you:

If you are working in a vet clinic alone, all by yourself, you lock the damn door.

This is especially important if you’re young and female but should apply to everybody.

It does not matter if you’re just about to open and another staff member will be there ‘soon’. It does not matter if you are expecting a client any minute now. It does not matter if it is the middle of the day because the vet is on a house call.

You are sitting, by yourself, in a building full of cash and drugs. You lock the damn door.

You can sit yourself down somewhere that you can see the door and be selective about who you let in, but otherwise you lock the damn door.

You do not want to find yourself in a FNAF situation trying to avoid the person with ill intent who walked in looking for drugs while you were out the back, or hanging up washing. You don’t want to look up after feeding a cat to realise somebody followed you in when they saw only one car in the car park.

Just lock the door.

#veterinarian #vetblr #vet medicine #self preservation

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Other benefits aside, do you know how useful it would be if someone actually had ‘Speak With Animals’ and could explain to that Labrador that he does, in fact, most definitely, need to stop eating socks if he wants to live.

the council will decide your fate (being kissed passionately)

(we had a chat about Vet!Halsin, who walks around with little birds under his hair and can carry a mastiff like it's nothing)

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I’ve been working at this one job, just this one clinic, a fairly long while now. 12 years, in fact. It means I’m basically part of the furniture at this point, I’ve seen a lot of changes, and I’ve seen a lot of staff come and go.

You know what else is about 12 years? The lifespan of larger or less fortunate pets.

Over the last couple of months I’ve guided a fair few patients to the end of their life, some becoming very frequent visitors as we tried to get their condition under control. I have euthanised these old, beloved dogs that I first met as bouncy little puppies.

It is a peculiar privilege to have been there from cradle to grave for these patients, to have been a recurring encounter on the entirety of these pets’ lives. It’s a sad event, obviously, but there is something beautiful in knowing how deeply loved these animals have been, and for such a long time.

#veterinarian #pet death #euthanasia

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That certainly makes me feel a lot.

Did you know horses can't pant? 🤔

#horse

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The Bard: “I roll to seduce the dragon”

Pigeon attempts to court falcon

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one of the best academic paper titles

#really interesting #and throws doubt on a lot of studies that claimed certain thought patterns in domestic animals #like the ptsd in dogs one #this is why it’s important to have a negative control in your experiments

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Look, I know I’m supposed to drink more water in a day. And I know I just haven’t been doing it. But I’m actually going to make a decent attempt at it this year.

Part of the challenge with ‘just drinking more water’ is a collection of relatively minor but still frustrating hurdles to work around:

Water sometimes tastes bad

If it’s the wrong temperature, it’s bad

If it’s out of the wrong cup, like a plastic one or certain mugs at work, I Do Not Want it

It’s repetitive and boring

So I’d normally end up drinking soft drink of some sort.

Instead, and it’s been working so far, I am trying to trick my brain into farming more dopamine out of drinking water.

First, a water bottle that I think is funny:

It also helps that it’s well insulated.

Second, flavoured ice blocks using fruit, herbs or juice, and I make 5 different ones for the week:

The combinations I like are:

Mint and lime

Mint, lime and raspberry

Strawberry and raspberry

Lemon and strawberry

Combining any of the above

Third, I let a small enthusiastic toddler select my colourful ice block for the day, which she is super happy to do. And super insistent on doing now, which both makes me happy and now I can’t possibly let her down by failing to drink the water.

And it’s actually been working for a couple of weeks now. So I’ll see how long the momentum lasts.

#drink water

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You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, now see a Coelophysid on a Therizinosaurid! Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

Behold the rare Theri-tree-nosaurus and the Procomp-star-nathus.

Slowly but surely catching up on the Xmas gifts I couldn't send on time vfihvbfh. These are some of the dinos that my friends Adam (the "Compy") and Ryo (the "Theri") play on PoT.

I can't remember Adam's tumblr oh god at least they saw it on Discord dsfhvbf. @corpus-chorus hi sorry this is so late plz enjoy the fluffy turkey with claws.

#dinosaur #festive

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#this is me with MS fatigue now

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I’m getting established with a new primary care doctor now that I’ve moved, and they overbooked a little so the only room available was a kid’s room. And. Well.

#conflicting feelings about these #I want them #but I also want to be nowhere near them #dinosaur

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Although whoever named Redivom deserves an award.

I sincerely wish that whoever came up with the name ‘Carflexin’ wakes up one morning to discover that all of their teeth have turned into spiders. 🙂

‘Carflexin’ is a brand name of a drug which sounds an awful lot like the active ingredient for an unrelated drug, so much so that it sometimes gets misfiled in the pharmacy. Can you guess which one it is?

#reblog if you get it #vet med #pharmacy

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I sincerely wish that whoever came up with the name ‘Carflexin’ wakes up one morning to discover that all of their teeth have turned into spiders. 🙂

‘Carflexin’ is a brand name of a drug which sounds an awful lot like the active ingredient for an unrelated drug, so much so that it sometimes gets misfiled in the pharmacy. Can you guess which one it is?

#veterinarian #vetblr #veterinary medicine #pharmacy #marketing people

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He’s a princess.

He sits.

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He sits.

#trash bag the cat #the vet’s pets #he’s a real animal

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“Cats don’t get presents because they don’t have hands. Only toes.”

- my darling child

#parenthood