It’s time a fess up as I had another “dog incident”. This time no teeth or pain involved but after I worked with the dogs owner he asked me to check it out see if I thought the doggy was health. The dog is ten years old, weighs 75lbs but has no problem going from laying down to standing up, fur coat shiny, I saw no signs of teeth irritation and it’s very happy that’s about the extent of my vet skills so I deemed the dog healthy. Although it’s nails should be clipped. Now here is the rub. At the end of my expert 2 minute dog health exam I took the dogs cactus chew toy and threw it across the living room. I did not realize this 10 year old 75lb doggo thinks it’s a puppy and charged after the rubber squeaky cactus knocking over a small table and sent a flat screen TV that was set up on a cheap stand rocking back and forth. I had to move quick as I’m pretty sure that TV would have toppled probably cracking the screen. The dog can move pretty quick but it appears stopping quick is a different story. So it was my second dog incident this month.
Once I rescued the TV I laughed pretty hard cause doggo brought me the squeaky cactus to throw again and the look on its face was comical after that near disaster. Fortunately the dogs owner was only upset for a minute and he was impressed how I rescued the TV so it all ended well but I need to stop playing with peoples animals like they are mine however it was part of the health exam I conducted at no charge (and no skill) so I think it went quite well.
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