How do you decide when to take your pet to the vet?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Pet Island > How do you decide when to take your pet to the vet?

Topoisomerase: Apr 12, 2007; CULTURE OF VICIOUSNESS

You are way overthinking this. I know a lot of people here (probably myself included...I'm awful at preventative care with my own animals honestly) don't really abide by this, but your pet should theoretically be seeing a vet maybe once every year or two for a physical exam and so the vet has a baseline for when things go wrong. This is how you try to catch the slow, insidious things. Also is good for if your pet needs vaccinations every few years or whatever. I don't work as a general practice veterinarian, so my POV is from the emergency/specialty side at this point, and for that it's usually pretty clear cut to know when to go. Even then we have people calling us on ER a lot to ask questions about if they should be seen or not. We have plenty of people who come in on ER for pretty minor things that really didn't need to, but that's kind of part of the triage we do.

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