AIBU To Take 2 days Annual Leave for dog getting neutered

Its good to be prepared to make the environment around you, safe. All the best.

You don’t need to give a reason for AL - but it’s up to you what you take it for, so long as you’ve given whatever notice you need to, to book off the time. Surely that’s fine?

And you have to book in for a spay so you’d have the dates in good time to book leave.

I took a week off with mine, only because she’s into dog parkour and I knew that despite being in pain and the obstacles we put in place to deter her from jumping, she’d still try it. I was right - she was fast asleep three days after having it done - so I snuck up for a lightening fast toilet break and without those three minutes she got on the window ledge and was just jumping off when I came down the stairs and she split her stitches so I had to take her back.

I also highly recommend surgical suits if your dog doesn’t like the cone of shame - she was much more comfy and it stopped her licking. The cone just came out at night when I couldn’t keep an eye on her.

I hope your dog is okay. Lots of rest and lots of cuddles needed.

I think it’s ridiculous you should even be butting your nose in what other people chose to do on THEIR annual leave time. If you were my manager I would quit…

OP I think this is absolutely the right thing to do.

I actually took 3 days off when my girl went in for hers, she had stitches etc so had to be careful she wasn’t trying to lick her wound etc,

otoh I reckon some of my managers would have let me have the time off without using annual leave days🤷‍♀️

Please take the annual leave, if I hadn’t when my beautiful Labrador was spayed she would have died. The day after the operation I noticed her dressing was soaked with blood,
I rushed her to the vets who had to operate on her again. It turned out one of the internal sutures had somehow come undone and she had serious internal bleeding.

Had I gone to work she wouldn’t have survived. Don’t hesitate about taking leave, you’d never forgive yourself if something similar happened.

It's an operation, it could go badly, you could have to provide care, or the dog might be fine. Either way, it's your leave and nobody else's business what you do with it, don't tell them if you're bothered by what you think they might think.

It is nobody's business why you are taking annual leave. You can use it for anything you like. Your boss and colleagues don't need to know.

They may ask, but you don't owe them an explanation.

My boss would say something like "doing something nice?" Because she's a normal friendly human being, I'd probably say "no pretty boring really, just vet appointment" and she would express concern that my pet is ok and comiserate about vet fees.

Equally I might just say "just using up some days owed" if I don't want to get into it.

People take time off for all kinds of reasons. Seeing friends, taking their parent/OH to a hospital appointment, going shopping, watching sport, taking a duvet day, settling a new puppy in at home, the kids first day at school, whatever.

Because you keep banging on about whether your manager will relate and whether your colleague is bothered.

None of this matters.

The annual leave belongs to you.

Tell your manager you're booking it off and that's that.

Are you not listening to anyone here OP?

She can ask all she wants but you're not obliged to tell her as long as you've given enough notice.

Do you ask her what she does with her annual leave?

So why the AIBU?

Lol

I mean clearly you're no-one's manager.

How can you not understand that what people do privately with their annual leave is nothing to do with their manager?

Do you work? Have you ever worked?

So bizarre.

Why is it ridiculous? It’s her leave to take as she chooses and do what she wants on it

I don't really know why you're asking what our thoughts are OP?

It's like me starting a thread asking for thoughts on me taking annual leave to...I don't know, go shoe shopping or something.

Annual leave is yours to do whatever you want with 😳

She can do whatever she likes with her annual leave!

Before I had kids (and therefore needed it all for childcare) I would take all sorts of random days off, including Christmas shopping and occasional binge watching of various box sets. I would never judge (or ask, unless they mentioned going away etc) what my staff need time off for now

So if you were in charge your staff would have zero time off unless you approved the reasons? How ridiculous.

I think it’s ridiculous even thinking about needing to know or care about why an employee is taking time off

i hope you aren’t a manager judging people’s annual leave

It's your leave - do what you want! So long as you're giving enough notice of your leave, it's absolutely no one's business what you're using it for. I've often taken annual leave to catch up on life admin - getting DCats in for vaccinations or the car in for it's MOT. DDog will appreciate you being around, and I'd try and do something nice for you between drop off and pick up on day 1 (hair cut, nails, a nice lunch or similar) and then line up a box set for day 2 and take the opportunity to potter a bit - a few loads of laundry, bit of cooking, renewing the car tax if it's due etc.

annual leave is yours to take, given business needs, for what ever reason

i've taken Mondays off because I’ve had (not a lot) of things to do at a weekend that will make me sleepy. Take the time off and be with your dog

some managers I’ve chatted about what I’m doing when off others have just been I’m requesting this time off

OP can you explain why you are asking the question as I don’t get what you might be concerned about

If you want to take annual leave to look after your dog, that’s perfectly acceptable. You can use your annual leave for anything you want.
Even if that’s just to sit in the chair all day and nap. It’s your leave, you do what you like with it.