The new dog may be excitable but she is quite well behaved when I take her out. For my wife, not so much
nless two people come on the excursion, it is impossible to walk both dogs at the same time, because the new dog wants to go everywhere and meet everyone, and the old dog wants to go nowhere and meet no one. My sympathies, if I’m honest, are with the old dog.
“I like this new vet,” my wife says as we drive to the appointment. “I told her on the phone I just wanted to make sure we were doing everything we should be doing.”“And then when she mentioned palliative care I laughed, because it’s a dog. She didn’t laugh back.”“We can’t park here,” my wife says. “We’ll have to go round again.”
The play is mutual and equable, until Jean gets hold of the other dog’s sweater and tries to rip it off“Heart sounds fine,” says the vet, looking into the old dog’s mouth. “Teeth aren’t too bad, stomach seems OK. Overall she’s in pretty decent shape for 15.”“No, of course not,” I say.“Just more squalor, that’s all,” I say.We drive to a nearby park and let the dogs loose. The old dog wobbles along behind us. The new dog, overexcited from the vet visit, barrels off in the direction of another dog.
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