A Little Brown Dog Goes to the Dentist

I knew something was up when my Mommy got dressed right after her alarm went off. First hint, there was an alarm. She taught Mah Jongg last night in Raleigh and did not get home until Daddy and I were almost asleep. That alone should have meant she was sleeping in this morning.

Second hint is Mommy did not eat breakfast and did not give me breakfast. Daddy came in and said it was time to go out. Go out? No one has eaten anything. Mommy put on my harness and that only means one thing…I’m going in the car. So Daddy came down to garage with me and Mommy even though he was just wearing his underpants.

Mommy opened the back door of the car, but I was having none of it. I ran all around the driveway and Daddy came out in the cold and ran around chasing me. Eventually they went inside so I followed them. It was a trick. Mommy picked me up and carried me to the car and snapped me into my car buckle. We drove to the vet.

Haven’t I been there enough. I just got my hair done and had a blood test. What gives? Nobody told me I was getting my teeth cleaned. I shivered all the way into the exam room. Mommy discussed if this was going to cost $650 or $1,050. I looked at her and gave her the sign, “It could be free if we walk out now.”

Mommy hugged me and said, “You have doodle tarter, this is for your own good,” and left me there.

I don’t remember much after they shaved a stripe around one of my front legs and put me under. I was groggy when I woke up, but I still had all my teeth. Mommy came back in the afternoon to pick me up and I heard the Dr. tell her I was a good patient and only had a two out of four on the grossness scale for dog teeth.

I was still a little wobbly but I was happy to jump back in the car because the only place we could be going was home.

I realized when I got home that I had on a new green bandana I must have gotten at the vet for being a good patient. Mommy said when she was little and when Carter was little they always got a prize at the dentist for being good. I wish they had given me a steak instead of a bandanna with avocados on it. It must have been because I was only a two.