Emergency Vets

[wendykh]

No, I don't need one. I mean the show on Animal Planet.
I recommend you do NOT watch this if you are pregnant, PMSing, or emo.

Last night they had this 14 yr old beagle come on looking all cute and happy, except he had a problem with tumours which he'd had his whole life and they were always benign (repeat after me: backyard "purebred" breeding hurts!) but this time one popped and was all nasty because he was digging at it.

Anyway this little guy was just adorable and sweet and then the vet does an x-ray and come to find out he's full of metastasized cancer in his lungs. Two weeks to live. I might have burst into tears sobs. Ruby (who always watches animal planet and national geographic dog shows with me) might have thought I done lost my mind. Pat came in and I was all blubbery explaining what happened and he's all "honey, are you sure you should be watching this?"

I am never watching that show again. Even Animal Cops is better because they clean the animals up and rehome them, and if they put them to sleep they don't show you the animal and let you get all emo about it first.

Speaking of Animal Cops, how come we don't have those in Quebec?

Comments

[sourdick.livejournal.com]

I'm not pregnant (well I havent had my period in a while....) and I just LOSE IT on anything involving dogs or moms. Like BALLING my eyes out... Its pretty embarassing, actally.

[raccoonbonapart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we need Animal Cops! My friend who also lives in Villeray reported a neglected dog to the SPCA (the dog is tied up in a neighbouring backyard 24/7 and cries all night sometimes and is losing patches of fur) and they were like, "We'll see what we can do." They haven't done anything yet, probably because they don't have the resources available to them to intervene with all the animal abuse cases in Montreal since they're a volunteer organization.