0ld clients and even older pets

I so enjoyed my day consulting today. I am used to being at home during the week and locumming at the weekend (when I do not have to worry about childcare as my husband is home), but they were short staffed at work so I filled in.
I consulted the whole day. I am not just used to being at home, but I am used to eating all day and after 4 hours of consulting, I realised that I felt very weak and shaky - I desperately needed a sugar top-up but I had an incredibly brave Greyhound in that had to have its booster, Rabies injection and microchipping. Greyhounds will normally cry out in pain when touched but he stood quietly as I gave him his assortment of injections before his adventure began. He was off to Canada to start his racing career there.

My most memorable client of the day was a dear old lady carrying a huge cage with a very noisy Cockatiel in it. She told me that she was 83 as I helped her lift the cage onto the table and that her cockatiel was 21 years old. I clipped his beak and claws as gently as I could as I was really scared that he may have a heart attack with the stress. I was relieved to get him back into the cage squawking wildly when I let him go.

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