Summer 2019(ish)
I made myself an earl grey tea while waiting for the vet to see my dog. He is old and has a hacking cough that is annoyingly worse at night when he is in bed under the covers. My dog has the cough, not the vet. I’m sure the vet has her own issues.
The office has one of those fancy machines that make tea or coffee from little pods that probably destroy the future of our earth because they are single serve and are too convenient to sustain future life on the planet. I figured the vet usually charges me enough so I would get some refreshment out of it.
So now I’m drinking earl grey tea out a mug while watching videos of “how not to get infested with ticks.” The tv keeps telling me it is tick season. They have posters of cartoon ticks and fleas which make them sort of cute and less seeming like the disease spreading bloodsuckers that they actually are. It’s like Disney himself was involved in the cartoon anthropomorphism.
One even has a lasso and boots. Weird to think of something tick sized trying to lasso anything. I mean how big is that rope anyway? A hair strand? A spider toe?
Someone announces that Hans Christian is here a bit early for his appointment. Hans Christian is a white Persian cat with a poodle lion cut, huge eyes, and oozes austere attitude. He demands audience by clearly pretending to hate everyone in the room. I bet he would like some earl grey tea….to throw in the eyes of all humans.
Sparkles the dog has just finished her appointment and is a whippet-terrier mix and is 100% sassy. She leaves the room the way a whippet-terrier mix should. Spritely.
It’s our turn to see the vet. I feel caffeinated, hydrated and well versed on all things tick related. Ticks are spreading. Stay vigilant.
Rating: all cats should have poodle lion cuts.
Pros: Pet health check-ups are important.
Cons: Ticks are spreading. Stay vigilant.