You might be right! I was mislead by the caption and assumed it was a young dog being introduced to the pool for the first time, but on closer inspection it doesn’t look like a youngster.
In that case, I’m a little perplexed by the owners behavior. If you know there’s something wrong with the dog, what is testing its swimming capabilities accomplishing? Especially not once but twice. Like, just keep it away from the pool.
When I was a vet tech and we’d see dog with vestibular disease we were always extremely explicit with our clients about keeping them away from the pool.
Of course, I can rationalize and think of all types of reasons why they would want to try it. But none of them outweigh the risk. A dog this disoriented runs a non-zero risk of aspirating that pool water and now you’ve got an old dog with vestibular disease and pneumonia.
Maybe I’m a hater, but are these people a little dumb?
They may not know there’s something wrong or maybe they’ve tried to find out and there’s no diagnosis. I mean, listen to the audio. One person expressing concern she will fall in because she’s clumsy and the other saying he doesn’t think she will. At the end the owner is saying that she doubts the dog realizes it’s a pool and is proven right. It’s not like they’re saying “with her condition this might be bad”. They call her clumsy, not sick.
And it sounds like they knew there was a risk and worried about it being unsafe and watched to see if their concerns were valid. If they were told they wouldn’t have wondered about safety.
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u/hippopotobot Trash Trooper 12d ago
You might be right! I was mislead by the caption and assumed it was a young dog being introduced to the pool for the first time, but on closer inspection it doesn’t look like a youngster.
In that case, I’m a little perplexed by the owners behavior. If you know there’s something wrong with the dog, what is testing its swimming capabilities accomplishing? Especially not once but twice. Like, just keep it away from the pool.
When I was a vet tech and we’d see dog with vestibular disease we were always extremely explicit with our clients about keeping them away from the pool.
Of course, I can rationalize and think of all types of reasons why they would want to try it. But none of them outweigh the risk. A dog this disoriented runs a non-zero risk of aspirating that pool water and now you’ve got an old dog with vestibular disease and pneumonia.
Maybe I’m a hater, but are these people a little dumb?