My recent visit to the veterinarian

At the veterinarian's office:

The people poked and prodded, looked in my ears, drew blood from my front leg, sneaked these two injections into my thighs, listened to my heart, and then said they would need to take more tests.

Meanwhile, MB was reading up on the many diseases of dogs as portrayed on these posters.



Then the vet and the techs went into the other room, telling MB I would need a few more tests because my heart murmur has increased.



They came back and got me, leaving MB alone in the little room while they performed the unspeakable tests. (MB thinks they took blood from my jugular vein. I don't know the medical terminology, but I believe that's correct.) They also trimmed my toenails.

Now I need to take heart medication. And they will need to perform even more tests to see if I will be able to withstand a dental cleaning, which is sorely needed.

- Touille, a tiny dog who is now considered to be a "heart patient"

Literary cat Lynksys

[Unfortunately the nice photo of Lynksys (a literary cat) has been deleted since SuziJane is no longer active on Flickr.]

Lynksys' human companion, SuziJane, captioned the photo thusly:

Lynksys proofreading my novel-in-progress for me! She's my technical advisor on the felines in the story.

I am sure that SuziJane's novel will be a best seller with such excellent advice from Lynksys. You can see that she is very intent on her proofreading job here.
My human companion, MB, perhaps needs my help in culling her photographs. She has over 2000 of them on her flickr pages. Of course most of the nicest ones are the photographs of me. She ought to leave all of those on the website. Some of the thousand photos of buildings could be trashed, in my humble opinion.

- Touille, a very photogenic dog



UPDATE by MB: The number of MBK's photos on Flickr now surpasses three hundred thousand with no end in sight. It's too bad that I never took my dog's offer to help cull the photos while she was still living!
I miss Touille every day.
Updated by MB Thursday, May 30. 2019

Tony aka Beelzebub

Tony aka Beelzebub
Originally uploaded by _Ingrid_.

Ingrid, the photographer, claims:

"He's pure evil."

How can such a little pup be evil? Perhaps Ingrid just means that Tony is feisty. Some of us little dogs are misunderstood, just because people expect us to be like little dolls or stuffed animals, just because we are small. But we are not to be trifled with!

- Touille, who has on occasion been called an "evil little dog" but who is in reality a mixture of good and bad

When taking pills, be careful not to drop them, especially if you have pets

Speak out!
Originally uploaded by msdrama.

A very sad story from Susan, the veterinarian whose blog is called Pet Peeves. She works nights in an animal emergency room. A little kitten was brought in with acetaminophen toxicosis.

It only takes one little pill to kill a small animal. Cats don't have the proper enzymes to metabolize Tylenol, and so dropping a pill and failing to pick it up could prove lethal to a pet.

The vet also recommends that you never give an over-the-counter medication to any pet without checking with a doctor.

Susan also links to this story about Bolero, a little pup who ate some poisonous seeds and managed to pull through with some heroic work by his doctors. Bolero will not eat Sago Palm seeds again.

- Touille, blogging about a serious topic today