Dr. Blue Meets "The Unicorn Of The Vet World" - An Adorable Greyhound Pup! | The Vet Life

Thank you for calling Safe Area Animal Hospital. This is Osa. Can I help you? This is Blackwood. Hey. How you doing? I'm doing fine, thank you. Good to see you. Chief. What's up, Chief? Me and Chief, we've been buddies for a long time. And by buddies, I mean he sort of tolerates me. What's going on with the big guy? He just has a problem with his eyes. He scratches it in the carpet. Kind of like rolls it around? Yeah, like that. I see it looks a little red. I can tell you just from looking at him from here, he has that what we call ectropion. Kind of with eyes that are droopy, kind of like the hound dog you see with the eyes and ears. You see where that is right there? That dip right there? Chief, he's got a lot of exposure, so it's easy for the eyes to dry out readily. And that can always be a problem. You want the eyes to really stay moist. Because you got to remember, your eyes stay moist all the time. Your tear production does that. If I open your eyes and all day long, it'll just keep it more dry. And of course, it will be red. I still think it's a good idea to always check like there's pressures to make sure that there's not any glaucoma. OK, I just want you to be careful, because he doesn't like nobody messing with his eyes. OK. We'll bustle him. I don't want to get bit. OK. All right, come on, let's go out. I'll bring him right back, mama. OK. All right. Here we go, big guy. Be good, chiefie. Ross. Y'all think it's on the lens, doc? I got a big guy that wants to kind of not be too happy with me today. Chief is a very strong dog. He need a strong man to restrain that strong dog. I want to numb chief's eyes before I get this pressure reading. Hey, what's going on with chief? They are concerned with his left eye. You see how it hangs out a little? It's a little droopy, yeah. So I was like, well, let me just make sure that the pressures are normal. Why don't you bite me? There's no bad dogs. Look, a dog is a dog. He may not like what you're doing. So chief is acting in the way that a dog that you're doing something he doesn't like would act. It's kind of a fight or flight. He's just fighting right now. Chief, come on, big guy. He's waiting on it, too. Relax, chief. Veterinary medicine can be considered a dangerous job. Come on, chief. Relax, man. You got claws. You got tails with iguanas. You get kicked by a horse. That's real dangerous. I actually was kicked by a horse, and it was by literally the hair of my chinny chin chin. The extent of the kick. That little piece right there? Sorry. I can literally feel him tapping. So it grazed you? It grazed me. There you go. Ready? Yeah. Relax, please, big guy. Come on. Please, big guy. We got to check. I'm doing a Jedi mind trick right here. Hold on. Come over here. Abba's 13. We good. OK, Papa Bear. All right. OK, all right. You good? Yeah. Thanks, bro. All right. Chief is cool. Chief's all good. He's just, he's a dog. Yay. Come on, let go mama. Yeah, come here. He was a little grouchy. I was able to get the pressure reading. They read normal. So everything's OK? Yeah, I'm not concerned with it at all. The test for Chief came back normal. All I got to do is send him home with a little bit of lubricant for his eyes. I think Chief and I are both excited that we don't have to do any more tests today. Chief, I would ask for a paw, but I don't want to get bit. I know you're probably mad at me. Here, paw. Give him five. No side eye. Oh, good boy. Good boy, Chief. Thank you, Doctor. Bye bye. What you're about to see right now is extremely rare. Get ready. This will be the first and only time I've seen this in my hospital. Hello. Hey, oh. I can't believe it. Critter is a four-month-old greyhound puppy, and he's here for vaccines. Greyhound puppies are like the unicorn of the vet world. Never seen a greyhound puppy. And I mean, I've been doing this for 10 years plus. They're hard to find, apparently. They're always either on the track, or you see them afterwards, like when they're retired, somebody adopts them. I mean, you just never see puppies. They're dropped off by storks, adult already. They're not a breed that was traditionally used for companion animals. But puppies, nobody ever sees them. Ever, ever, ever, ever seen them. Come here. Let's dance. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. It's so cool. How did you get the name Critter? Well, we actually asked Grey when we told her we were going to get a puppy what she would name a dog. So she said Critter. And we were kind of like, meh. So what's your second choice? And she said, bathtub. So we decided to stick with Critter. How's he doing at home? Is he active? He gets the zoomies probably three or four times a day. The zoomies? Yeah, like crazy around the backyard for like 30 minutes. Other than that, sleeps. He's the laziest dog I've ever met. The 45 mile per hour couch potato. You agree he's eating normal, drinking normal? Yeah, he's doing great. One of the things that I do want to be aware of about Greyhounds is that they tend to have bad teeth. They get a lot of tartar and plaque that builds up really fast. So I do recommend brushing his teeth at least every other day, if not daily. Do you mind holding him for us? So just a couple of quick vaccines. So that just goes right over here. There we go. So if you see Critter just being a little bit lethargic, kind of warm to the touch, don't really want to eat, he's just having a normal response to the vaccine. If you see facial swelling, vomiting, diarrhea, or hives, that's an emergency. You need to get him back to me. OK. I got your heartworm prevention. And I'm going to give you a toothbrush to make sure we're cleaning those teeth. All right, here. Oh my goodness. This is like the highlight of my day. We'll see you. All right, bye bye.