Three Reasons Your Dog Is Brought Into The Back At The Vets

Article Title: Three Reasons Your Dog Is Brought Into The Back
At The Vets
Author: Daniel Beatty, DVM

You are at the veterinarians office with your dog. You are
waiting to see the vet and when your turn comes you get into the
room. Then you are asked to wait in the room, while your dog is
taken into the back to have blood drawn, the vaccines, or some
other procedure. Or you get into the room the veterinarian comes
in does an exam and notices that your dog is a little agitated,
he asks to have your dog brought into the back. You ask
yourself, why? Why is my dog going back there, what is happening
to my dog back there, you might even hear a yelp and you know it
is your dog...what are they doing? Why does my dog need to go
back there why can they not do the procedure in the room or why
can I not go back there to see what is happening? All these are
legitimate questions and I have three reasons why.... attitude,
insurance and training.

Attitude - Most dogs do better without their owner present.
There attitude completely changes when they are away from their
owner for two reasons. The first is that dogs just like people
can feel stress and tension. They are acutely aware when there
is a problem, they may not be able to fully understand the
situation and therefore may not respond appropriately. All the
dog knows is that it is away from home in a different and
sometimes scary place (they get hurt here) and that their owner
is a little anxious or nervous, so they know something is wrong.
Now you as an owner may not be nervous about the procedure but
rather nervous because the dog is nervous, you feed off of each
others anxiety which then makes the dog difficult to deal with
in a safe manner. If you take the dog out of the situation, away
from the owner, so it can not directly feel the tension, the dog
actually calms down. The second reason is that some dogs try and
protect their owner from anything they consider a threat. Some
dogs are well known for not trusting anyone, except for their
owner, and that becomes much more evident when they are in a
strange environment or in an environment in which pain was
inflicted upon them - shots hurt. In this case, when the dog is
taken away from the owner and he no longer has anything to
protect his attitude improves dramatically.

Insurance- Money and lawyers that is what insurance is all
about. Lawyers trying to figure out the "what if" situations and
how much money it will cost if that "what if" should occur. In
veterinary medicine, it is spelled out that if when doing a
procedure on an animal and the owner is injured or bit the
veterinarian is held accountable. Insurance companies know this
and if a client is injured then there is no coverage or minimal
coverage; however, if an employee is injured then the employee
has workers compensation insurance plus the standard insurance
would not dismiss their claim due to negligence of the
veterinarian. That is correct, it is considered negligence on
the veterinarians part if you hold your dog and you are injured.
So in order to protect himself, the veterinarian will and should
require certain procedures to happen away from the owner using
trained individuals, which brings us to the third reason why
your dog is brought into the back at the vet's office.

Training- There are trained individuals in the back room for
procedures. Many veterinary exam rooms are small and most back
rooms are quite large. In order to have as many trained
individuals working with your dog in enough space to properly
work, your dog must be brought into the back room. Properly
trained individuals know how to draw blood or more importantly
know how to restrain your dog in the most effective way and
minimize the chance of hurting themselves or your dog in the
process. Not only are they trained professionals but they deal
with situations like this everyday, with the same team of
people, which also makes it safer for the people and the dog.

So when your dog is asked to go into the back room, it is not
because the vet wants to do mean nasty things without you
knowing. They do not want to do treatments without your
knowledge, they really have the concern for the safety and
health of your dog. Bringing your dog into the back room usually
eases your dogs attitude, reduces insurance woes, and utilizes
trained individuals.

About The Author: What? You didn't know you should not be
vaccinating your dog every year??? You can find more information
about this and other topics of dog health care at Dr Dan's
website - http://www.evetclinic.com or his blog
http://healthyasadog.com

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