I had a client come in the other day who was really rude and nasty to me. I ended up refusing to deal with her until she calmed down. She continued to escalate to the point that I had to call the police and the police ended up arresting her. She was accusing me of killing her cat. Have you ever had to deal with a client that was this bad. Tell me your worst story.

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We had lost a patient under anesthesia. Understandably the parents were upset and emotional. Started throwing things in our exam due to the events . At one point picked up a picture framed , i literally thought she was gonna throw it at my veterinarian. Neocropsy was done , from what I was told , turns out the patient had a heart condition that can be difficult to diagnosed even with cardiac ultrasound . Client proceeded to protest in front of our clinic once a week for 4 months carrying a sign “ so so hospital killed my dog “ .

Wow I'm sorry that happened to you. I never had to call the police on someone but someone did get very irate on me a few months ago. Their dog had cancer but they brought him in too late because they were ignoring the symptoms. The dog was very ill by the time i got to him. I ran test and they accused me of giving the dog cancer with the rays from my scans

People don't play about your pets. I've had a couple people "go off" on me. One of the most idiotic was one time I was trying to clip a dog nails. He was a little jumpy and the owner insisted that I was hurting him. I kept assuring them that I wasn't but they weren

People don't play about your pets. I've had a couple people "go off" on me. One of the most idiotic was one time I was trying to clip a dog nails. He was a little jumpy and the owner insisted that I was hurting him. I kept assuring them that I wasn't but they weren't having it so I had to stop before I was even done

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