Today was vet day for Ruthie and Pete, so Austin and I leashed them and loaded them into the back of the Subaru for the drive into town.
It started raining about the time we left home and we sat in a downpour several minutes waiting for a train to clear a crossing a few blocks from the veterinarian’s office.
This was their semi-annual checkup with tests and shots for rabies and other stuff. The vet was running a special on micro chipping, so I decided it was time to take care of that long-neglected detail.
I’d never forgive myself if they ran off and we had no other way to identify them and assure their safe return, all because I was too cheap to get them micro chipped.
Both dogs handled the chipping procedure with remarkable aplomb – no wincing or whimpering when Dr. John Huff placed the rice grain-size microchips under their skin between the shoulder blades.
I dropped the dogs and Austin off at home, collected up the mail at the post office, gassed the car at Hilltop ($2.09/gallon for regular) and picked Maria up for lunch, after which I swapped cars with her so she wouldn’t have to drive my del Sol.
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The "kids" look so good! As well as Maria, of course!
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