A few weeks ago, I took little Jack Finney to the vet for his vow of celibacy. I didn't want to. I wanted a little family of Havanese, and he is an impeccable example of the breed. But, something told me ...

Last night someone kicked a board out of our fence, and Jack got out. Maybe it was a big truck rumbling by that scared him back into the yard and back through his pet door into the kitchen.

He was full of stickers. Vet bill was $165 to get the stickers out of his ears. I was happy to pay it.

I have my little love back, and glad I chose to neuter him. I could have lost him. But, luckily, he was able to resist the call of romance ... and run back home with only stickers in his ears.



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I am glad he came home, and arrived safely, kathleen.

I am sorry about the stickers--both for him, and for you!

Give him an extra pat for me, please, 'cause I really am glad he is home again.

Thanks,Tevai.

:)

This is why I hate it when people threaten to take me to the vet.

My hubby says, "I got fixed and I didn't even know I was broken!"

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> This is why I hate it when people threaten to take
> me to the vet.


foflmao! you would return with one of those cone things around your neck.



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Maybe you can get a doggie coat with one stitched on.

Virgin?

Rumor has it that Vets made more $ than MDs & that students with better grades become vets instead of people docs...
Rumors, I'm telling U.

So glad to hear Jack is safe. :)

Thanks, Angela. :)

My psychology professor (also the director of Mental Health) told us that often, after people lose a pet, they show up at the counter of a psychiatric hospital and ask to be admitted.

That would be me.

Whenever someone close to me loses a pet, I always send them flowers. I think I'm the only one who does that.

It's a loss that some people are too self-conscious to mourn openly, so they suffer alone, in private.

That’s a wonderful awareness and response to an under-noticed form of grief! I had never thought to send flowers or a card, but a formal response like yours shows the recipient that “yes, your loss was huge!”

Thanks, MWK.

I'm glad Jack came home too. Stickers are a small thing compared to unknown dangers on the other side of that fence.

Poor little darling. He'd had enough of his "big" adventure by the time he returned home ready to be babied.

My older Cairn terrier hasn't been neutered. When he was a puppy he suffered from a heart murmur. I didn't have him altered then because the surgery might've caused his heart to stop.

He outgrew the heart murmur. Now that he's grown old, I've considered neutering him again, but the vets tell me it would put him in more danger under the anesthesia at his age he might not survive that. He's never been a problem except once when I brought a French bulldog puppy home for a day. She was a three month old female, and he thought he'd found his Juliet.

I nipped that in the bud right away! The bulldog puppy was at her forever home within 48 hours of arriving here without getting impregnated. Smaller breeds can have their first heat cycle as early as four months. She wasn't far off. As far as he was concerned she was in her prime.

Thanks, Amyjo.

You chose the right course for your little fellow, in view of his health.

Love those Cairn terriers--just the right amount of "shaggy!"

:)