Had a pretty productive day off, not as much as I could have but hey at least I got some stuff done. I did lots of dishes, washed the towels and bathroom rugs, washed my blanket that my cat so eloquently barfed on, changed cat boxes, brought back the garbage cans from the street, then I went to the Animal Shelter to do the vaccination clinic with my dad. It is always an experience and sometimes the condition of the dogs that are brought in literally break my heart. We had a cocker in today that had a shaved back but the skirt was 5 or 6 inches long and practically dreadlocks, it was not cool. Then I got my alligator handling skills worked. We had a 5 month old chihuahua that let me take it from it's owners (I hold the dogs while my dad gives them the shots). So I was holding it around the neck, we microchipped it and the dog flipped out started peeing everywhere and started the alligator roll with mouth open trying to bite me, I only had a hold of its neck and so eventually got it so I could scruff it so it couldn't bite me, boy was she ever trying to bite even when she was pinned on her back with my hand around her neck. Got the muzzle on her and that intimidated her enough she didn't move for the rest of her shots. We see quite a few unsocialized, untrained, and a lot of aggressive dogs at the vaccine clinics, it makes for an interesting day. We got told that they are going to once a month clinics now and so we get to go in an hour earlier for the next few months, then if they go back to the twice a month ones it will be us doing them both times. Right now they have 2 vets that do them, my dad does the 4th tuesday and another vet does the 2nd tuesday. We shall see how it goes. It is a lengthy process and took about 3 hours today to process about 35 people through with rabies certificates etc.
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