I recently noticed white blobs in my Yorkies urine, looked it up and realised it means protein which could mean kidney problems. She's almost 5 years old, so not old by any means.

I took her to the vets yesterday who tested her urine and sure enough she had alot of protein in it. She took a blood sample and that was that. She didn't actually examine my dog at all, I expected her to at least give her the once over.

Anyway, got a call this afternoon from her saying the blood tests are back and are normal. Brilliant news, I think! She says to take her in for an injection because despite the blood test results she does have protein in her urine which needs dealing with. So I took her back today for the injection.

The vet had a trainee in the room with her, who was there yesterday as well. She starts talking to the trainee and it went something like this.

"Now this a good example for you to learn from. This dogs blood tests are normal but that doesn't mean there isn't a major problem with her kidneys. I had a cat in once who had a tumour the size of an orange on its kidneys but its blood tests were normal. So there could be a serious problem with this dog despite the negative blood tests results. So you can't always trust blood tests ha ha ha."

Erm hello??? I am in the room with my dog. I have spent the last 24 hours worried sick that my dog has kidney failure and may ultimately have to be put to sleep. Then I get told by her that her blood tests were fine, and I take that as meaning my dog is going to be ok. Then I have to learn that she may not be fine at all, but I'm not told this by the vet, I get this info by listening to her talking to her bloody trainee!

I am furious and really don't want to set foot in there again, she is supposed to be a vet who should understand how much we worry about our pets and show a little sensitivity, not be more interested in her trainee!

But can I change vets easily? this current vet obviously has her blood test results, I am supposed to go back in 2 weeks to have her urine checked again and I don't know how easy it would be to take her somewhere else. I have spent over £100 since yesterday and am also worried that a new vet would want to start from scratch so I would have to pay out again for what's already been done, if that makes sense! Money isn't the main thing, I want her to have good care, but I can't lie and say money doesn't matter at all!

Any ideas?

Shouldn't be a problem to change vets, although sometimes they get funny about sending notes over. We changed vets mid long term treatment, without any issue.

I changed vets mid treatment, it was easy enough and our new vets are lovely. Very glad I switched. The last ones had a real attitude problem and apparently were quite known for it. I wish I'd known before going there in the first place! But I'd definitely say switch. I wouldn't be able to trust them after what she said to that trainee.
In fact, she sounds incredibly unprofessional, what on earth was she thinking?! Did you say anything to her?

If you arent happy change vets, shes your dog, and you want the best for her, I changed vets with mine, best thing I could have done.

They should be able too transfer her records from one vets to another. To be honest I would complain too the practic manager as your not happy how your dog and you where treated.

When we changed vets we didn't even have to arrange notes etc to be sent our new vet did it all. Very glad we did change but with the problem you had have you explained to the old vet what went wrong ? they may learn from the experience if you let them know how you felt and could avoid it happening to people in the future.

Thanks, I will be contacting another vet on monday and have her seen by them.

I've been told some negative things by people about this particular vet, turns out I should have listened!

Got a bit of an update.

I did switch vets, to an absolutely lovely one! He couldn't be more caring and supportive. There was no problem at all with getting her records sent over, although the new vets had to request them twice as they weren't very forthcoming!

She's been tested again and everything is fine, the new vet thinks her kidneys are ok and she doesn't need the special (and expensive) renal dog food that the first vet insisted on.

Because she was properly examined by the new vet, turns out her teeth were in a pretty bad way, and she's had to have a lot removed today under anaesthetic. Because her gums were so infected, he thinks that could be related to the white blobs in her wee as there is no sign of protein or kidney trouble, and everything else is clear too.

I told the old vet that her breath was rank (the dog, not the vet!) but she didn't even look in her mouth, just said that yes, that was another symptom of kidney failure.

So thanks for the advice, it really was easy to sort out and I now have a nice new vet to turn to when I need help.

Sounds terrible OP. I have a whole heap of concerns about mine and would move in a jiffy except there aren't any good alternatives locally and I worry about potential emergencies if the new vet is an hours drive away
That said - if it is a practice with several vets there can be a huge difference between them. A bit like GP practices...

PS Now that the move has taken place I would give the previous vet some 'feedback'. If there is someone more senior there I would direct it to them.