Funny Pet Peeves
Monday morning, another typical day at work, and of course my chatter friend and colleague was all up to give everyone a boost to shoo the Monday blues away.
Our topic? About those cute, funny and sometimes annoying pets in the house.
Honestly, the last time we had a pet dog in the house was eleven years ago. My dad adopted one Shih Tzu dog given by his friend who migrated to Canada. Certainly, owning a dog entails responsibilities like a new child in the family. When the dog gets sick, my parents have to spend thousands for the treatment, it can be really expensive. But, we have lots of fond memories with Trisha- our cute Shih Tzu dog. One time when she got sick, we brought her to a veterinarian clinic in the city. While the secretary collects the all needed information about our pet dog, we caught ourselves dumbfounded when the secretary asked my dad, “What’s the family name of Trisha?” And my dad chuckled, paused and replied our family name. As we went home, we all laughed while my dad and I told everyone that Trisha is carrying our surname too. Well, that was our first time to check-in a pet for a doctor’s appointment and we’re completely clueless that our pets can have our surname as well, lol!
Back to the chit chat at work.
This also reminded me of this funny story when I was assigned as Clinical Coordinator in Manila before. My cousin and I rented a small apartment with some friendly neighbors around. We don’t have any pets, but some of our neighbors have.
One time, a mom in the neighborhood, Lucy, offered to take care of a friend’s dog for a couple of days. The dog, a large mixed breed named Al, couldn’t adjust his size on a small front yard of the apartment. He was very irritable, barking most of the time, and tried to escape each time the gate was opened.
Visiting Lucy the next day, I found the dog tied firmly to a concrete post in the front yard.
“What’s with Al?” I asked.
Lucy gave me a weary look. “That dog,” she said, “ruined my reputation last night, about nine o’clock; he got away and ran off to the street and to the park. I went after him shouting ‘Al, Al, come back!” She sighed.
“Everybody knows that my husband’s name is Pat,” she continued and smiled, “and that he works the night shift!”
We were laughing over her experience with the dog. Some nosy people nearby might have thought that she was chasing a boyfriend that night, lol!
Our chitchat ended with an elderly patient coming in for Physical Therapy from a post operative right hip due to fracture. We asked her what causes the accident, and she replied that she fell down while trying to separate two of her dogs fighting. OMG!
That would be it for now, just something funny and really annoying experiences with our dogs around.
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That experience with Al the dog is surely funny lol!