What Happens At a Pet Hospital

It’s best to have a veterinarian or animal hospital before you get a pet. What happens at an animal hospital? South Florida PBS took a tour of Emerald Hills Animal Hospital to find out.

You may need to fill out some paperwork about your pet before you can see a veterinarian. Keep your pet constrained in some way while in the pet hospital waiting room. Dogs should be on leashes or, if they are small enough, in a carrier.


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All other pets should be in carriers.

Pets and their owners then wait in an examination room for the vet. When the vet arrives, the pet is put on a table to help make it easier for the vet to thoroughly examine your pet. Large dogs need to climb onto a table that lifts like an elevator. Many dogs do not like this table, so you may need to hold on while your dog rides up and down.

Pet hospitals have separate rooms for operations. These rooms may also have diagnostic equipment like X-ray machines or ultrasounds. Each animal hospital is set up a little differently. Some animal hospitals offer grooming services like baths and hair and nail clipping.

What Happens When Your Bring Your Dog to the Groomer

Many people envision the job of a dog groomer as one being full of fluffy loving dogs that are grateful for a day of pampering. Who would not love a career where you get to pamper pets and return them to their owners relaxed and renewed? This video from a dog groomer sheds some light on the fact that many people do not realize exactly how hard this job is.

Grooming dogs for a living comes with a range of clean-up duties that no one looks forward to. It also is a dangerous job when the pooch is not fond of being groomed.


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This video is a compilation of many of the “darker sides” of dog grooming that people do not normally think about.

Pet grooming is a tough job and this quick compilation of grooming’s worth moments can really drive home the point about how tough it really is. If you take your groomer for granted you need to watch this video. It will create a new respect for the profession. Before you take your pup to the groomer and assume that it is all rainbows and sunshine take a look at this video and see what a groomer’s day can look like.

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