But owners should not feel guilty if they fail to recognize these subtleties - cats don’t come with warning labels, and a person who doesn’t know the symptoms can’t be expected to recognize them (and, by definition, subtle symptoms are hard to recognize). It is certainly true that early recognition of subtle cat emergencies will improve the chances of a good outcome. Although some cat emergencies come on suddenly and are anything but subtle, it is true that many other cat emergencies start with vague symptoms. They wonder whether their cats might not have gotten so sick if they had recognized earlier that a problem was developing. And I also meet some cat owners who feel very guilty. But the latter is relatively more common in the UK, though the numbers are small: 4.7% vs 1.8%.In my role as an emergency veterinarian I treat some very sick cats. It is clear that to the vet is much more common than to the vet's everywhere. (By inspection very few of these are vet = "veteran"). There's been considerable discussion in the comments as to whether anybody actually says to the vet's in this sense (as opposed to to the vet), so I looked at the GloWbE database, and found that to the vet's (not followed by a possessed noun such as "office" or "room") occurs only 28 times - 11 from UK, 6 from US whereas to the vet excluding talk to the vet occurs 1286 times, 325 from US and 232 from UK. We also say I took my dog to the vet: saying the vet's refers to the establishment - the practice or clinic, rather than to the vet himself/herself but in practice there is no difference in the use or meaning. I know that people do talk about a vet there, despite its other meaning of "a veteran (from the armed services)", and I believe the word veterinarian is the normal more formal word.Īs for go to the vet's: yes, very common. I know things are different in US English, but I can't speak about what's common. I have never encountered the word veterinarian in Britain. First, in British English (the variety I know) an "animal doctor" is almost always referred to as a vet, and more formally as a veterinary surgeon (or possibly other words replacing "surgeon").
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