s and it's a lot easier to look after them in their own environment, and my puppies are better adapted at not being at home...The one female daschund passed away on Saturday evening - she would have been 19 years old in July, so she's had a full innings, but it's still quite the shock to see a little animal die right in front of you. Also, all sorts of wounds opened up again... So, on Sunday morning, I put on my brave face and load her little body into a basket and drive off to the vet's to have her cremated - we're a civilized people here in the South of Africa... I leave her in the car and go inside to pay the fee. Meanwhile the cutest gay couple are buying dog food at the same time and the vet (who I know well) comes out to console me and give me a 'punch in the arm', and there my emotions take over and the tears are STREAMING down my cheeks... (Gawd, I'm such a girl sometimes!) So I have a (rather cute) vet holding me in his big strong veterinary arms on the one side, the cute gay couple offering to help me and buy me coffee on the other, and a receptionist who is hurling tissues at me like a women possessed - and all I want to do is bury myself with shame... What is a lad to do?
So, with that completed and Mom called - very emotional, I'm back at home - my parents home. Now with only five dogs, a very noisy parrot and a very nosy housekeeper. Please Friday come so I can return to my little enclave of sanity in Pretoria.
TTFN
5 comments:
'big strong veterinary arms' mmmm now, now is that you getting carried away? I find vets sexy too, I think it's that image of caring and giving selflessly. Only don't like it when they show them on tv shoving their arms up the wrong side of a cow :(
My dogs doctor is (in my opinion)
VERY good looking...I think he
may play for your team though :(
Oh well...I can still look right :)
I'm sorry you had to take care of
that...Just last week one of my
very good friends was on the phone
with me as she watched her last
dog pass away...You're human and
you love your animals...You treat
them like you would your own
children...You're such a wonderful
man :) nothing girly about you :)
TACKLE YOU HUGS!!!!!!!
Laurie
I would have taken the coffee, tissues, and the hugs. Plus a phone number for a date. I'm so sorry you had to deal with all of that.....it sounds terrible, actually.
*hugs* hope all is better.
I know it was a sad time and I understand it was an emotional trip for you too, but I have to admit I got a giggle from the image of the snot en trane scene at the car - too funny!
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