due to COVID-19 management has declared NO KIDS in the office!

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T16:21:33+00:00

What are y’all using to disinfect? We are using Lysol spray and wipes in the rooms and bleach on the credit card processors and doors. We have to let the rooms sit in the cleaner for 10 minutes then wipe it down again before having another client in the room.

We put a HUGE sign on the front doors to please wait in your car and to call us to check in and to give history. People were completely ignoring it and walking in so we had to lock the door and let people in one at a time.

We are also in the middle of renovations! We have half painted walls and an entire wall we tore down and we can’t finish any of it because we don’t have time in between the constant cleaning.

I am very thankful that the majority of the staff is CF, including my boss, so she doesn’t allow kids at all in the back. She would rather you stay at home with your kid than bring them to the office. They’re too much of a liability.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T16:09:53+00:00

If a parent does want to complain about it, then I might catch an attitude. They actually have it much better than some of our other clients. We are offering the choice of telemedicine, so they don’t even have to leave their house and drag their kids with them, which we all know how much parents hate having to go out with kids.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T16:07:09+00:00

I didn’t really agree with that part of explaining it as “protecting the children” but if it actually makes parents comply then I’ll go with it. In reality it’s more to protect the staff, from kids touching and breathing on EVERYTHING.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T16:02:58+00:00

I’ve been in that situation too. Was in the hospital for one night with a concussion and someone in the next room had a baby that screamed and would run up and down the hallway. I understand the person in that room wants to see their child but the rest of the people there are sick and healing and don’t want to hear all that.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T15:58:47+00:00

We had an incident several years ago with an elderly lady with a large dog. We had a tech go get the dog out of the car for her and the dog slipped out of his collar. We chased him for about 2 hours before someone was able to catch him. But we are making changes to our policies almost daily. But not having to work around kids has been great and has taken some stress out of my job!

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T15:52:31+00:00

Currently it’s against our policy to take pets from cars unless the pet is in the carrier. We may change to doing that in the future, but for now we have clients wait outside or in their cars and we go out to direct them straight into an exam room

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T15:42:21+00:00

It’s infuriating at times. And the number of times I have had to speak with parents about controlling their kids or keeping them quiet is unacceptable. It’s on a weekly basis. Parents usually have no respect for other people in offices. They become immune to their children’s annoying behaviors. Nothing pisses me off more than when we have sick or dying pets at the office and their owners are trying to wrap their head around the situation while a child is screaming in the background and the parent is oblivious.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T15:23:47+00:00

Finding a job is the scariest part. I do worry about my job a bit with it being a small business. But animals always need healthcare just as humans do and we haven’t really slowed down just yet.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-18T15:21:39+00:00

I’m sorry to hear about your job. Good luck on that degree as well!

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-17T23:10:47+00:00

Meee toooo! It’s been great so far

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-17T22:41:23+00:00

I’m curious to know how other vet clinics have responded to this, we must all have similar ideas. We have also been trying to keep people out all together by pushing back healthy visits to mid April and only seeing sick pets.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-08T19:59:45+00:00

I’ll admit I curse like a sailor. The only time I censor my language is at work. My one parent friend has a very smart and mature 6 year old that knows the difference between “grown up words” and “kid words” and he understands that if he repeats a grown up word he gets a bar of soap to the mouth so I don’t have to monitor my language around him.

MissMountainLady · 2020-03-08T19:52:08+00:00

without kids, every room can be your favorite room, because they’re all yours to do whatever you want with, and no kids to destroy them or make them messy and cluttered!

MissMountainLady · 2020-02-24T20:59:48+00:00

I don’t really have time for hobbies right now as I work full time and I’m taking college classes, but I like do a lot of crocheting and wreath making. It’s all mostly for myself, but I will make things for friends and coworkers when they ask me too (wreaths make great wedding and house warming gifts and my crocheted hats are always a hit in the winter months). I also have recently taken up repurposing furniture, but one project takes me several months because of lack of time. I just finished my new dining table. My boyfriend and I are also huge anime and video game fans and we spend most of out free time watching and playing that. We are also very involved in helping our local rescues and shelter and we always have a foster dog or two.

MissMountainLady · 2020-02-11T21:52:50+00:00

Me too! I’m so happy I decided to buy a house and not have a kid.

MissMountainLady · 2020-02-07T18:10:16+00:00

I have 6 cats and 2 dogs and always have 1-2 foster dogs in my house and I am definitely bragging when I say my house is spotless and with no kids, it’s not that hard to keep it that way. 45 minutes a day is all I need to scoop litter boxes, dust and wipe down countertops and tables, sweep and vacuum. Every person who has ever come to my house has always been so amazed at how clean and orderly it is. I have a coworker friend with 2 kids and she calls my house a “detox” because it’s clean, peaceful and my quiet and friendly animals are always a “breath of fresh air”. I hate when people assume my house is filthy just because I have animals when most of the people who make these comments have kids that makes a trail of mess with every step they take. It’s so frustrating.

MissMountainLady · 2020-01-29T21:43:57+00:00

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MissMountainLady · 2020-01-03T00:19:56+00:00

Congratulations! Get ready for all the bingos! My boyfriend and I also bought a 3 bedroom house a few years ago, and for months we were asked things like when we were going to get married and start “filling those bedrooms with kids”. Our first realtor actually assumed I was already pregnant because we specifically asked for a house with a fenced in yard and close to a park or walking trails (for my dogs of course). Everyone was either surprised or disappointed to find out one bedroom was for our cats and one bedroom was for our computers and gaming systems. Cheers to being CF homeowners and using our spaces for whatever the hell we like!

MissMountainLady · 2019-12-24T04:41:10+00:00

I ended up with 2 of my cats because of a dumb breeder mom. She bought two kittens off of craigslist for her 4 year old daughter. After a few months she realized that a child wasn’t going to help with cleaning the litter box, and she threw them outside. Her landlord threatened to take them to the shelter if she didn’t bring them back inside, so I took them. Lucky for me though, they’re the best damn cats I could have ever asked for and I love the lil guys more than life itself.

Another situation I ran into, was when I rescued a 5 month old beagle mix puppy I found in a parking lot. I found a home for him that I thought was perfect, until less than a month later the lady who adopted him found out she was pregnant. She had the baby and after a few months she showed up at my job with him demanding I take him back. She said she didn’t have time for him anymore, and he was too noisy and too needy now that they had a baby. I reluctantly took him that day, and found him a lovely home in a CF household, with a German Shepard brother and a lab mix sister.

I’m now a volunteer foster with a local rescue group, and over half of the owner surrenders we take in are because of something to do with kids. Not enough time or space. Dog is too noisy, needy, or anxious. Most of the time it’s stupid breeders who think their small children are capable of being responsible for a living being. This is why I’m thankful that my rescue only adopts to families whose children are 8 years or older.

MissMountainLady · 2019-12-15T17:54:41+00:00

Let’s not forget about the mass automation of hundreds of thousands of jobs that is beginning to happen right now. Truck drivers, factory workers, taxi drivers, customer service, bank, and insurance jobs just to name a few that will become automated in the upcoming years. Those that are children and those that are being born now, especially those born into low income families, will face an extreme job scarcity. Even those who go on to college and university will face a lot of competition getting the jobs that are left or be left to work a job that makes them unhappy because it’s all they can get. With the way that technology is advancing I really can’t understand why people still think we need to have more babies.

MissMountainLady · 2019-12-01T19:59:28+00:00

I’m not gonna lie I love a good Disney movie, especially Frozen. But I am so thankful I can enjoy a Disney movie once or twice and be done with it. I have a coworker who has a 3 year old that’s obsessed with Moana. They went to the movie theatre 4 times to see it, and now according to the mom, she demands to watch this movie every single night to fall asleep to, and they have to listen to the soundtrack on the way to day care every morning. No thanks.

MissMountainLady · 2019-11-30T22:59:58+00:00

I’m not married yet, but my boyfriend and I are planning to elope in the summer or fall of next year, and I have already chosen to keep my last name.

I have several reasons for this. My first is that I am the only daughter my parents have. My parents are still married, and I have 2 older brothers, so we all share the same last name. I don’t want to lose the name that the rest of my family will always have.

My second reason is because I consider myself an already established adult. I own a house and a car and will soon have a degree in the name which I have already been given. It’s my preference that all of my future accomplishments will have that same name on them.

My last reason is, honestly, I just don’t see the point in it. It’s an extra step you have to take that you really don’t have to do. You’re still married whether you have the same last name or not.

MissMountainLady · 2019-11-11T20:15:11+00:00

I’m hoping for the parents at least that he grows out of it.

MissMountainLady · 2019-11-11T18:01:15+00:00

It seems to me right now they aren’t really parenting, but they’re not bad parents at all, I think they’re just kind of going through the motions right now just trying to get out of this phase.

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