https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/6108/funny-things-you-find-in-a-vet-practice---telling-the-tooth Popped down to my vet practice this afternoon to drop off Christmas presents from my dog (this is the practice I&#39;ve used for 19 years for my dogs, and, when needed, specialist chinchilla problems - not the charity practice I work in!). Walked up to theen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61184?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:42:59 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:8bacc932-d7e9-4904-a292-725c3922c65dStella Skelton RVN<p>I think that&#39;s the most hideous thing i&#39;ve ever heard!! Ugh!!!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/60956?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:43:51 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:88524cbd-fd77-496b-8f88-5c7000bda480Anonymous<p>[quote user=&quot;kezzathecat&quot;]</p> <p>I have collected a &#39;creepie crawlie&#39; stash over the last 5 years, mainly consisting of ecto-parasites, I&#39;ll NEVER forget one of&nbsp;the grosest things I&#39;ve had to do...</p> <p>A couple of years ago a client came in to say that there where &#39;things&#39; on the cat.&nbsp; She tried to explain what they looked like but I didn&#39;t have a clue so I asked her to stick some to a bit of cellotape and bring them in for us to have a look at.</p> <p><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Oh_my_God_smiley.png" alt="Surprise" /> I could tell the second she brought them in that they where lice but none I have ever seen on a cat/ dog before... after a little research we discovered... wait for it... they where HUMAN LICE!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>I had the horrific job of telling her what they where, needless to say she was very distraught and told me that her son had just come back from a long trip to&nbsp;Africa and the cats had been sleeping on the bin bags full of his dirty clothes.</p> <p>I sold her some Indorex and advised her that she may need to contact the council if this didn&#39;t work.&nbsp; She phoned me up about half an hour later to say that she opened the bin bags up to find hundreds of lice bumbling around!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>Poor lady <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Winking_smiley.gif" alt="Wink" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Oh thats just made my head really itchy! Poor women! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/60929?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:29:46 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:4d62f643-e853-4463-9980-9347c2a03a2dClaire Cameron<p>[quote user=&quot;kezzathecat&quot;] <p>I have collected a &#39;creepie crawlie&#39; stash over the last 5 years, mainly consisting of ecto-parasites, I&#39;ll NEVER forget one of&nbsp;the grosest things I&#39;ve had to do...</p> <p>A couple of years ago a client came in to say that there where &#39;things&#39; on the cat.&nbsp; She tried to explain what they looked like but I didn&#39;t have a clue so I asked her to stick some to a bit of cellotape and bring them in for us to have a look at.</p> <p><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Oh_my_God_smiley.png" alt="Surprise" /> I could tell the second she brought them in that they where lice but none I have ever seen on a cat/ dog before... after a little research we discovered... wait for it... they where HUMAN LICE!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>I had the horrific job of telling her what they where, needless to say she was very distraught and told me that her son had just come back from a long trip to&nbsp;Africa and the cats had been sleeping on the bin bags full of his dirty clothes.</p> <p>I sold her some Indorex and advised her that she may need to contact the council if this didn&#39;t work.&nbsp; She phoned me up about half an hour later to say that she opened the bin bags up to find hundreds of lice bumbling around!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>Poor lady <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Winking_smiley.gif" alt="Wink" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="CLEAR:both;"></div> [/quote]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /> grim!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59738?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:57:50 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:1fe54433-43d5-43ca-bfc4-b3682444ffb2Kerry Spain<p>I have collected a &#39;creepie crawlie&#39; stash over the last 5 years, mainly consisting of ecto-parasites, I&#39;ll NEVER forget one of&nbsp;the grosest things I&#39;ve had to do...</p> <p>A couple of years ago a client came in to say that there where &#39;things&#39; on the cat.&nbsp; She tried to explain what they looked like but I didn&#39;t have a clue so I asked her to stick some to a bit of cellotape and bring them in for us to have a look at.</p> <p><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Oh_my_God_smiley.png" alt="Surprise" /> I could tell the second she brought them in that they where lice but none I have ever seen on a cat/ dog before... after a little research we discovered... wait for it... they where HUMAN LICE!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /><img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>I had the horrific job of telling her what they where, needless to say she was very distraught and told me that her son had just come back from a long trip to&nbsp;Africa and the cats had been sleeping on the bin bags full of his dirty clothes.</p> <p>I sold her some Indorex and advised her that she may need to contact the council if this didn&#39;t work.&nbsp; She phoned me up about half an hour later to say that she opened the bin bags up to find hundreds of lice bumbling around!!! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Ick!" /></p> <p>Poor lady <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Winking_smiley.gif" alt="Wink" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59735?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:55:42 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:a568afa0-315b-46f4-a589-06324865c49dSarah Nicholas<p>[quote user=&quot;Caro Laithwaite&quot;] <p>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.</p> <div style="CLEAR:both;"></div> [/quote]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>lol Caro!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59595?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:24:40 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:691d036a-f85a-4455-941d-4a4efa4bd1d5Nick Shackleton <p>One practice I used to work at used to have a little museum of &#39;weird&#39; stuff seen over the years. There was a hairball removed from a horse the size of a mini football. Wonder if it&#39;s still there....................</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59578?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:29:54 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:0d51a9c9-7197-4a0c-86de-1f799d115b75Caro Laithwaite VN<p>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59533?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:53:43 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:1c1ac27a-68fa-426c-aa8f-92aca48f918bSal the 1st<p>one place I worked there was a human skull inside a box in the storage cupboard - we used to joke it belonged to an ex trainee (boss was into archeology but how he came to keep a skull ?? surely somebody was missing it)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/59529?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:44:59 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:f01a9e07-a927-415c-b11e-be83806ac1e4albatross<p>it really was .................</p> <p>A DENTAL PLATE - complete with one tooth</p> <p>Not sure if it was a canine!</p> <p>I suggested to the girls on reception that maybe someone had been startled by a large vets bill!</p> <p>Now if you&#39;d sneezed out your dental plate (not that I&#39;ve got one but both friends and hibby have and they&#39;ve ejected it from their mouths....), wouldn&#39;t you realise before you t the surgery?</p> <p>Oh well, perhaps they&#39;d put it in their pocket from an earlier fallout and it had come out when they took out their hankie?</p> <p>it did cause a lot of amusement and made my day - I was chuckling all the way home...<img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Big Smile" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>