I love well behaved dogs, not dogs that get into my medicine

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24 Dec 2025, 9:15 am

We have four dogs at the office. One of them is well behaved, but the other three are in serious need of training. Two of the dogs, including the one that is well behaved, belong to my nephew. The other two belong to friends of his, neither of which are around.

I have to give myself Vitamin B12 injections every other week. The pharmacy delivered the next two injections on Tuesday (they deliver in my county) and set them on the conference table. One or more of the dogs jumped up on the conference table and grabbed the sack which includes two vials of Vitamin B12, two syringes, and four needles (20 guage to load the syringe from the vial and 25 guage to inject it into my leg. They mangled the syringes and needles, but I only found two needles, not four.

The needles have a protective cap on them so they should be safe from being stuck by a needle, but I'm not sure about the needles with caps making it through their intestines with damaging something. If it does, I'm sure not paying for their vet bills.

One of the vials actually looks okay, but I don't know whether or not it might be contaminated.

Of course, this being Christmas Eve, I don't know what the pharmacy's hours are today and on Friday. I would bet that they close early both days.

I have tried to tell my nephew and his friends that they need to train their dogs to behave, but they just get mad and say that it is none of my business.



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24 Dec 2025, 10:20 am

Bloody dogs

I wonder if there's any pharmacies that will be open on Christmas

I can remember walking into Manchester one Christmas day night for a pharmacy but that was almost 40 years ago


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24 Dec 2025, 11:11 am

Kids can be just as bad as dogs. I thought it would be a good idea to mix water into my cousin's birth control pills and shake the bottle when I was 6.


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24 Dec 2025, 12:39 pm

:lol:


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24 Dec 2025, 3:17 pm

babybird wrote:
Bloody dogs

I wonder if there's any pharmacies that will be open on Christmas

I can remember walking into Manchester one Christmas day night for a pharmacy but that was almost 40 years ago


My local pharmacy closed at noon today. Fortunately, my niece was in that town and so she stopped and picked them up for me.

They also sent my blood pressure medicine, too. It's a good thing that they didn't send it yesterday. Eating a three month supply of blood pressure medicine would not have been good for the dogs.



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24 Dec 2025, 3:26 pm

Well that's one less thing to stress about


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24 Dec 2025, 3:34 pm

babybird wrote:
Well that's one less thing to stress about


Very true.

But it also caused bigger stress that isn't going away very quickly. My nephew is upset about it and tends to stay mad for a while. (I can be mad one minute and fine the next.) I really hate having to tiptoe around him since he gets mad so easy. His mother told me that's because he has learned that when he gets mad, he gets his own way. I think that when he gets mad enough, he doesn't even remember what he did while he was so mad.

I don't understand why he is mad at me this time. He should be mad at the dogs.