I can’t…. oooooOOOO……. *stamping around waving arms*……..
\nSome people’s children…….<\/p>\n
So pretend you’ve never had any medical training.<\/p>\n
You run over your 12 pound Shih-Tzu WITH A TRUCK. Do you:
\nA. Take it to the veterinarian for care.<\/p>\n
B. Take it to the veterinarian for euthanasia because you can’t afford to treat it or<\/p>\n
C. Let it sit around for 3 days “lookin’ like it’s gonna die” but then continue to ignore it because it “looks like it’s gettin’ better”.<\/p>\n
And if, after a few months you notice that your 3 year old 12 pound Shih-Tzu isn’t as perky as you’d expect a dog her age to be. She doesn’t play very well and when she goes for a walk she can’t go for more than a block or two before she poops out.
\nDo you:
\nA. Think that there might be something wrong with your 3 year old 12 pound Shih-Tzu that you ran over with a truck two months previous and have her examined or<\/p>\n
B. Assume that your 3 year old Shih-Tzu is getting out of shape, old, and lonely and arrange to purchase her a “purebred” Pug\/Beagle puppy to “perk her up”.<\/p>\n
And when, a few months after you purchase the puppy, you notice that your 3 year old 12 pound Shih-Tzu isn’t getting perkier with the puppy around and is, in fact, having coughing fits to the point that she faints do you:
\nA. Think that there might be something wrong with her since you ran her over with a truck 5 months ago and take her to the veterinarian to have her examined.<\/p>\n
B. Ignore the whole situation and just assume that she doesn’t like the puppy or<\/p>\n
C. Take everyone camping with the idea that spending some time alone with the family and the puppy will “do her the world of good”.<\/p>\n
Then when your 3 year old 12 pound Shih-Tzu that you ran over with a truck gets so sick that you’re worried she’s going to die while you’re on your family camping trip and you FINALLY take her to a veterinarian do you:
\nA. Let the veterinarian do the diagnostic testing that needs to be done to find out what’s wrong with her or<\/p>\n
B. Do you pay for the exam and refuse anything else but medication that you know will be of help because “every other Shih-Tzu we’ve had had heart disease and every one of them got better with this medication”.<\/p>\n
I swear I’m not making this up.<\/p>\n
I saw the Shih-Tzu in question ten months after she’d been run over by a truck, eight months after they’d purchased the puppy, and five months after she’d started on a diuretic which is usually used to treat patients in heart failure. Usually works, too, when the dog has heart failure, but this one didn’t.
\nI didn’t even see her because of her cough and exercise intolerance issues, I saw her because she had a skin problem and an ear infection…………
\nAnd just coincidentally she had most of her abdominal organs stuffed into the left side of her chest because when the idiot ran over her with the truck almost a year ago her diaphragm ruptured and all of her abdominal organs got shoved up into her chest.<\/p>\n
The owner still doesn’t think there’s anything that needs to be done about that.<\/p>\n
Can I refuse to be human? I don’t think I like being this species anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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