Mel, it's Trip. I can tell you one thing about that trip to the vet to get my num-nums lifted.....it REALLY made me MAD! I was so mad that I did my durndest to BITE ALL OF THEM. Yes sir, I was on a rampage. All doped up, could barely wobble, but I sure went after 'em! Hahaha I SKEERED the crap out them! That vet looked like a hopping rabbit, trying to get out my way. Heck, he shouldn't have been so dad-burned a-skeered, I had my rabies shot--HE gave it to me! It ain't like he wuz gonna get some disease or sumpin'. I wuz pretty dopey, I didn't catch none of 'em, but I had my jaws and teeth clicking like castanets. Then a couple of them nice girls, they called them vet techs, snuck up on me and put some kind of noose and a stick on my neck. Between me wobblin' and them pushin' and pullin', they got me to this cage and stuck me in it. I DID NOT like that cage, not even one teensy tiny little bit. I barked my mad dog bark at them.
When Mom and Dad got here to pick me up, them girls wouldn't even take me out of the cage and take me to the lobby. Nope, they brought Mom and Dad to the cage for them to get me out. There wuz this sign hangin' on the cage HE BITES. Mom wuz shocked, just astounded that I went after those num-num stealers. They opened the cage, boy wuz I ever glad to see my Mom! I wobbled out to the truck and Mom had to lift me up and help me get in the truck.
Home never looked so good. That is, until Mom brought out this confangled cone thing and put it over my head. All I wanted to do was lick my missing man parts! She said I wasn't supposed to do that. I dunno why, it was always ok before the BITE the VET visit. I laid out in the living room floor like a dead dog. I had to wear that durned cone unless Mom wuz lookin' at me. Finally she said I could lick my missing num-nums but there just weren't any joy in licking something that weren't there no more.
Last night wuz terrible! Lightening, thunder and torMATOES. In our house, we call 'em torMATOES because that's how our 2 year old grand daughter sez it. So there wuz torMATOES that come 12 miles from us. I am big and tough, but I ain't no match for a torMATO and even worse, THUNDER (shiver). Mom and Dad always let me in the house when there is a storm I feel safe with them and I go to sleep on the floor.
Mom said that Florida is HOT, so stay in the AC all you can. Don't forget to drink lots of water, we pant a lot, slobber and drool when it's so hot. Take care of yourself,
Trip