Apologies for the time lapse between emails - life just somehow gets in the way. We're steamrolling towards winter already up here... nights closing in, a bit of a chill on the wind, although, let's face it, it was never what i might call, "hot" this "summer!" The 1st of September came and went and I told everyone that I met on that day that it was the 1st day of Spring! And when they looked at me slightly bemusedly, I had to inform them that it was the 1st of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere! Anyway, I'll get over it!
Have had a few "birds and the bees" moments these last few weeks; firstly there was a lady who came in with her two cats, and as she's hauling them out of the basket, she informs me that she wormed them just last week, and now they had become unbelievably fat... now, my brain was in hyperdrive trying to work out a possible correlation between worming and obesity, until I glanced down at the nearest cat... 'Mam, that cat's not fat, she's pregnant! Oh, and so is this one!' And there were these two, heavily pregnant, rugby balled shaped kitties, waddling round the consult room. 'But how did that happen?' the client asked. 'Um, well, you see,' I started, thinking 'oh my goodness, tell me i don't have to explain all that to this grown woman,' at which point she hurriedly interrupted me and said that she did actually know how it happened. Phew, thank goodness for that!
A few weeks later I had a German Shepherd puppy in for his first vaccination, and the owner and his young (+/- 8 years old - i'm not very good at age estimation in children!) son brought the pup in. So I did my whole routine check, and when I felt to check if the testicles had descended, there was only one little one there... so I had a good feel (hey, it's important vet stuff, ok?! ;-) ) and still only one. So I said to the owner, 'I'm afraid he's only got one descended testicle,' at which point the son pipes up, 'What's a testicle?' So I smiled at the dad and said, 'I'll leave that for you to explain, shall I?'
And then, just last week, a very nice Polish lady bought her collie in, and it was limping rather badly. Anyway, I lifted it onto the table, and was just asking a few questions about the history, when she says, 'I'm not sure if it's relevant, but she had sex recently.' Ah, now I have to say that i've heard sex called by many euphemisms in my brief history as a vet, but no one's just come out and said it!!! So I nodded, and said that it was very relevant (but possibly didn't have anything to do with the limp!).
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