Tour at Vet's office...

We had Dorje in for an appointment this week. As it was wrapping up, I asked if it would be possible to have a tour in the near future of the clinic. Emma has been showing a lot of interest lately of being a vet. The vet asked if right then was a good time! I put Dorje in the car so I would not have to worry about keeping him calm and we started the tour.

He first showed Emma where they do lab work. Where they are able to look at feces and blood. We then went into the operating room and he explained what all the machines were for and how they monitored the animals (they only see dogs and cats) during surgery and how they are able to give them fluids when needed. We then moved into the x-ray room and he took out an interesting x-ray for Emma to look at. He pointed out the skeleton of the dog, the hips, spine head, and then pointed to a smaller skeleton in the same photo and told Emma how the dog was pregnant! We then saw the kennels and where the dogs recover and the special kennels where they put the contagious dogs.

He finished up by letting Emma know that when she is older, she can come and observe a surgery which she was excited about. She later asked me why she could not at her age now. Depending on the surgery she quite possibly would do ok now, but it is hard to judge. She has not had a problem gutting fish or seeing a quartered/skinned elk hanging.