One thing that has drastically changed since I started this full-time gig, is my $$$ situation, and not in a positive way. Now it's pretty much like there is too much month and the end of the paycheck. Bummer. I'm pretty much outta cash until the next pay period. No bueno.
I'm pretty ready for the Land Flowing With Positive Cash Flow, so that I'll actually be able to live in a place that shouldn't be condemned. Well, my place ain't exactly that bad, but it makes for a better story, doesn't it?
I had a very, very interesting turn of events lately. The lady from this post called on Friday, demanding that I prescribe her dog a wide variety of Class II narcotics (that's stuff like morphine and other good juice like that). She also wanted the injectable kind, a BIG no-no. She called at 4:45 P.M., and as luck would have it, I avoided the phone call because I was about to go into surgery. I proceeded to tell my Kennel Manager, who had been taking the phone calls, that I would not prescribe those kinds of medications to her dog who hadn't eaten in the last 3 days, is pooping and peeing all over himself, hasn't been able to walk more than 2 steps for multiple months because of SEVERE hip dysplasia, howls all day and night long, doesn't sleep very much because of the howling, is blind, and is about 25% underweight.
So about 5-8 phone calls later made to us by the owner, I answered the phone at about 5:58 P.M. (we close at 6), and it was her on the other line. And she was not happy that I wouldn't give her the drugs that she wanted.
I asked her about the dog's quality of life. She really didn't like me asking that, because she responded by saying, "I won't have you push me into euthanizing him!" I then told her that I was merely asking her about what she thought about her beloveds quality of life (which is clearly non-existent) and she told me that she still thought that the dog still had it. And Muslims aren't blowing things up around the world either. I get it. I get it.
She is by all "common sense" definitions committing cruelty to her dog, although not legally, which gave me no options to confiscate the dog.
This is pretty much a woman that is in complete denial about the real situation that her dog is in, which is very close to dead. She adamantly refuses to humanely handle this situation, because of the following crazy math:
1) She thinks that 1 Dog Life = 1 Human Life, or 1DL = 1HL.
2) She accordingly thinks that Euthanasia of Dog = Murder of Human, or EoD = MoH.
3) So, my mathematically challenged friends, our 2 formulas combined gives us this: (DL + HL)(EoD + MoH) = 1 LCTARFOMOS or 1 Lady Crazier Than A Room Full Of Monkeys On Speed.
All in all, it's a very sad situation. Sad for the dog who is suffering a long and painful death. Sad for the owner who has a very unhealthy attachment to her dog. She has no kids, and has never had any kids, and she is putting that maternal instinct erroneously into her dog. It's one thing to think of your dog as your "kid", but it's another thing altogether to really, really believe that the dog is your kid.
She told me that she just wanted "a few more days with him." She wanted him painfree and able to sleep. I informed her that the only way that was possible was to be completely asleep from drugs (which is impossible for her to do).
I eventually told her that she would be better served by a veterinary specialist, because I can't give her the medicines or treatment that the dog needs. FYI, the dog needs an entirely new body.
So, as of 5:53 PM, we haven't heard from here since the Saturday call. Thank God.
Keep on keepin' on.
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