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Cedar and Jen’s chicken tried to peer into the living room window by jumping and flapping its wings.
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Aug 30th 2005I Laughed When
Archive for August 30th, 2005
Wheezer
The other day Casper started wheezing. He’s a noisy breather anyway and snores when he sleeps, on top of all the squinting he does, but this wheezing thing was new. We took him to the vet, where he promptly stopped wheezing and started rolling around on the floor like this place is great! Then they took him to the other room and subjected him to x-rays and bloodwork, and he stopped being so cavalier about the experience.
The vet took us in the other room and showed us x-rays of Casper. I felt very nervous, because you never know what someone is going to tell you when they show you x rays. Will his internal organs be completely deformed? Will there be an outline of some freakish parasite lodged in his abdomen? Or massive tumors? Will the x rays indicate that he is not actually a cat, but a giant, peculiar looking ferret? However his cat organs seemed normal and the vet showed us some spots on his lungs that indicated asthma. So now Casper is asthmatic and has to take steroids. He already has a large, jowly neck, but I guess steroids are still necessary. If he were human, he would probably have very thick glasses and an inhaler in his pocket that he uses after running away from the bullies at school.
Then there were other considerations that tested our love for Casper versus our money. Ticks and fleas? Deworming medication? Albino sidekick potion? Testing for leukemia? Suddenly Casper’s life is at stake, rife with risks, and we must make sure he is ok. Now he is back at home, free of bugs and parasites and cancer and wheezing. We look at him once in a while and mutter “expensive bastard.”
Aug 30th 2005Pets