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The Queen’s Visit

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Felix hates going to the vet and he had to go back twice because of his neck. The stitches were bothering him...the poor guy. Sixty or so pounds of dog trying to hide under office waiting room chairs....HEy, Lady, Felix was just putting on an act!

Right. So then there’s Maggie, Queen of all Retrievers. She needed to go for her shots and general check up. In contrast to Mr. Take Me Home Right NOW, Maggie is sweet and well behaved. Vet visits are a social occasion wherein anybody in the office has to pet or at least acknowledge her presence. She would have played with the Westie that was there if the Westie wasn’t cranky enough to warrant a muzzle according to his owner. She definitely liked the pretty red Pitbull and the ten year old Yellow Lab and the year old Black Lab puppy.

She saw Dr. Weingarten and even gave him a kiss. The doctor gave her a good going over and suggested chondroitin & glucosamine tabs for the Queen’s creakiness. We’ll see about the Adequan because that stuff’s expensive.

Ah yes, a completely different experience than taking the Lord High Him...

The Day After

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:16:09 -0400

Well I isn’t happy at all...

the lady takes me back to the vet even though I was just there last week AND she LEAVES me there! The nice doctor lady cleaned my teeth and that doctor guy, Dr. Fisher, took a bump off my chin and my chest. He told the lady that they was just fatty things and didn’t need biopsy. So FINALLY the lady takes me home.

I dragged her up the stairs and I ran into my bedroom, made sure the dad person was there, then ran outside. A guy has to keep an eye on his yard y’know. But then I hadda lie down because I was hurting from the stitch yuckies. Couldn’t get comfy til after I jumped on the people bed to watch TV. I sleeped in the living room on my throne after and that was fine.

And he has to take antibiotics for a week. Too bad they aren’t the chewable kind because that means he has to get them put in his mouth. Poor guy...but at least he’s better than he was last night. We owe him a new toy for this.

Inventory

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:29:13 -0400

I decided that it would be a good idea to clean out Felix’s crate while he’s at the vet. That crate is like his kingdom and storage cave for treasure. Two huge blankets from there plus the two flannel sheets from his throne in the living room went into the wash. Then to evacuate all the toys. Threw all those into a pile (a huge pile) then vacuumed his crate and there was an awful lot of dirt in there. No idea how that much got in but guess what he had in there.

Inventory

23 tennis balls
6 nylabones
2 headless Elmos
1 tennis stick
1 deflated football
1 huge plastic baseball
1 destuffed Spiderman head
1 destuffed teddy bear
1 headless Incredible Hulk (the story on this is here!)

Going to the vet

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:37:29 -0400

Felix does not like going to the vet. He starts shaking as soon as he realizes where he’s going, hence the scaredy look on his face up there. This time it was just for shots & to have his bumps checked out. Maggie loves going to see Dr. Fisher and the rest but not the big guy here....nooooo. doesn’t he look scared? If it was maggie, she would have played with all the puppies.

Hey wait a minute, lady! Felix wasn’t scared. He was just lulling them peoples into thinking he was so he could surprise them laters.

Right. Sorry, big guy.

The dad person came with us to the vet and it’s a good thing. i got to sit under his chair in the waiting room. So we got to see Dr. Conway this time and she was very nice. She checked out my magnificent teeth and them bumps I got. She measured the bumps and then said I gotta have my teeths cleaned. Even after chewing all them nylabones!

The nice lady even checked out my heart and lungs. She laughed when the lady said I was running around playing football, frisbee, and tennis ball the day before. Hey! A guy’s gotta have fun and exercise right? You know what? the doctor has two Labs just like Maggie and they eat that nasty Science Diet stuff that felix and his sisters hated but then she said one of them is like felix and needs an audience to eat. Lady, quit saying stuffs like that when you know I just like company.

I got my nails cut and they said I weighs 59.6 pounds. well i losted a bit of weight from all that summer running around. Now I got a nice new rabies tag. it’s heart shaped because the vets loves me, right? And the lady says I gotta got back maybe next week and get my teeths done and maybe get a bump off my neck.