northernmastiff
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I have learned from bad experiences (yeah, I should have learned it with the very first experience) that nothing good comes from letting a vet tech/even a vet, take my dog without me back into the inner offices to do anything!! I now know it is my job to protect my dog and make any vet experience they go through as positive as possible, and if they can't accept that I will be there present the entire time with my dog then I will seek a new vet asap. I learned this the hard way, and will never allow it again!
You're right but the way they do blood donation is to have a vet tech take the dog back at 8 in the morning and then you pick him up at about 6pm. It is quite an involved process as the dog has to be put under for the procedure. I think they changed the procedure quite a bit in the recent years but this was about 8 years ago. It was done at the OVC and hips and elbows clearances was done there as well in the same process. Blood donation up here was not done by a vet but by the Ontario Veterinarian's College. We had to drive 2 hours to take him in so the process was quite involved. They didn't give you a choice of whether to go in or not. Petey has a rare blood type in dogs so he was doing a big service as a blood donor.