When you go to the vet with your pet would you want to see posters of dog and cat anatomy drawings hanging on the wall? These are posters with an overlay of the skeletal system over a picture of a dog and cat, plus another poster of the musculature (basically a flayed dog) and the internal organs.
Let’s take it a step further and say you had to rush little Fifi or Fluffy to the vet on emergency because it got hit by a car/attacked by a dog/or some other horrific accident that might involve broken bones, lacerations with exposed tissue or even worse, disembowelment.
And let’s take it one more step. On their walls there are nicely framed professional pictures of dogs, cats and birds but the posters are somewhat worn and just tacked up on the wall with something sticky on the back, so the edges are all loose.
I see them all the time, I don’t have a problem with them…they are interesting.
Not to mention that our Fifi and Fluffy are not exposed to speeding cars or dog attacks. OK, Fifi does go the dog park, but those dogs are supposed to be well socialized and we live in Texas where gun ownership is mandatory.
Now…I’d be upset to see them in the room when I had to have a pet put down, but those rooms have always been different…with calming pictures and low lights.
Can I ask what made you post this poll? If your Fifi or Fluffy was injured, I’m very sorry for your shock and pain.
Well, not in a “oh boy, I hope they have flayed animal posters up on the wall” way but I do find the human version of these posters on my doctor’s walls interesting, so something similar at the vet’s office wouldn’t bother me at all. If Fifi has been hit by a car and disemboweled the posters are not going to be the thing that I find upsetting right then, even if they show where bowels should normally be. Everyone is different though and I can understand how they may upset or disgust someone especially at a time of heightened emotions. The way they are presented (neatly framed or peeling and curling off the walls) would speak more to me, for some reason, about the cleanliness of the office in general (like no one cares to straighten or fix things up).
And I am sorry if you’ve recently had a pet injured and then felt stress on top of that due to something in the vet’s office.
No, I work at an emergency clinic and a coworker put these up. I not only think they are inappropriate but they also look like crap compared to the framed pictures, and we do not have special rooms for euthanasias so we have to use whichever room is available.
Yes, I like to be informed. Just like when I go to my own doc’s office, I like to see posters explaining the ins and outs of my digestive and circulatory systems. Same thing.
I don’t see a problem with it at all. Any medical or even dental office worth its salt is going to have diagrams and brochures about the types of things they deal with. Every large picture of that type I have ever seen has been at the junior high school level at best and I think any customer should be reasonably expected to have seen such a thing before. Many of them will find it fascinating and educational like I sometimes do.
I don’t find it any more offensive than taking my car int a Toyota dealership and seeing a diagram of a transmission broken down in graphic detail or a display of a tire impaled by a nail. Eek: Eek: Eek:
Why would anyone find an anatomical diagram that is relevant to that particular practice distasteful or offensive? If you think that those pictures are, don’t ever step foot in an OB/GYN office unless you have a nurse on hand to administer smelling salts.
OK, that makes a world of difference. Yeah, I wouldn’t be too happy to be at an emergency vet with a mangled pet and looking at sloppy posters of the inside of animals. I also wouldn’t be very happy to see them while I was having a pet put down, but happily I’ve never had to use an emergency vet for that. Actually, I’ve never been to an emergency vet at all. I guess I’m just really lucky.
I don’t have a problem with doctor’s offices having these sorts of poster, but you usually don’t see these sorts of things in the emergency room or hospital rooms.
But that wasn’t my only issue with them and maybe I didn’t explain enough. If your doctor had a bunch of nicely framed pictures and then some posters that were a little discolored and worn in spots and those were just tacked on the wall would you feel that was a bit cheap looking? This is why I had a second “yes” option.
When my dog was having hip issues the vet used those pictures to point out the possible causes and how they would fix each one. I think they’re useful.
His aren’t framed but they’re not ratty so they must be replaced fairly regularly.
When I’ve had to put my pets down, I didn’t even notice the office décor.
My vet’s office is not at all “slick”; I think she put up a couple of posters when the office opened in 1980-something, and hasn’t done anything since. But she’s a great vet. That’s what I care about.
I think they’re fine. SUre, if they were nicer that’d be nice, but it’s not a big deal. Frankly, when I went in to have my cat euthanized. the last thing I was caring about was pictures on the wall.
No problem at all. Why would I not want to know Ginger’s and Winston’s inner workings? Not only does my vet have anatomy posters on the wall, but he also has the fake joints on display to play with… er… study.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Surely if men aren’t bothered by anatomical diagrams of their wedding tackle when going in to get a vasectomy, they’re not going to be bothered by dog anatomy in a vet’s office.
Only the most absurdly sentimental person would get worked up about something like that.
I guess you guys are just less sensitive than our usual clients. We had someone get all upset because we had the animal channel on the tv in the lobby and there was some nature show on, probably lions eating gazelles or something.
Regardless of the content though, I still think they look bad because of the condition and placement of them. We’ve gone to great lengths recently to “pretty” the place up and they just don’t look good. But this was my first poll so maybe next time I’ll know to state the options more clearly, the first option should have been “Yes, and unframed worn out posters are fine” to contrast with the second yes option.
I can’t remember if the emergency/specialty clinic I used to work for had those hanging up or not, offhand. I kind of think we did, and I know for sure every primary care practice I’ve ever worked for has had them. Never saw anyone take offense at them–people with critical pets were usually withdrawn into their own little bubble of anxiety and fear and were only peripherally aware of the fact they were in an exam room, much less paying attention to what was on the walls. We had a few get all snitty about whatever Animal Planet was showing, but we also had people getting all snitty because the soda machine sold Coke products instead of Pepsi and because it was going to take an entire hour to get their dog seen and have labs and films done and because one of the male techs had a ponytail and because there was a wait on Christmas morning that was going to make them late for opening presents with their extended family.
Have you actually gotten more than one complaint? It’s impossible to be reactive to every complaint you get. If the posters not looking nice is the issue, then a few inexpensive frames, or having the posters mounted, should do the trick.
The posters wouldn’t bother me in the least, in fact I’d probably enjoy studying them (though I agree having them nicely mounted would be better).
The TV on the other hand drives me nuts, even if it’s Animal Planet and not Fox or some stupid talk show. The clinic I used to go to before we moved has small sets in each room as well as one in the lobby, all on Animal Planet. I’d always mute the sound, and if I couldn’t find the remote Id turn it off. I hate TV blather unless I deliberately sit down to watch a show, and that for me is an hour or so in the evenings.
I’d rather they weren’t raggedy and messy, because in a medical setting I’m happier if stuff is neat and clean, but the posters themselves are totally appropriate and would probably come in useful on a regular basis (‘See, Fluffy tore this tendon here, so he’s walking funny because he can’t whatever, so we’re going to do this in order to support that while that heals’ or whatever).