My wife made an appointment to have me take one of our dogs to the vet for her rabies shot. It seems that we needed a new one in order to get her county dog tag. So I went ahead and took the dog to the vet. The shot itself was only about $20, but they charged me over $50 for a “wellness check” that we never asked for!
Now that might be legal, but I think it is totally unethical to charge $50 for a “wellness check” that we didn’t ask for! I think that before they started checking her over they should have asked me if I wanted that done and advised that there would be a $50 charge for it! I feel totally ripped off!
Now I find out that I could have taken her to Petco to one of their shot clinics and had the shot done for only $18 and no “wellness check” fee. I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out where the next rabies shot will be coming from, do you?
You can never tell these days if the photos that are being passed around on the Internet are for real or not. I just received this photo in my email today. I got a good laugh out of it and wanted to pass it along here for grins and giggles.
It has been many years since we needed to use any of our baby gates that we now have stored in the basement. I’ve been teasing my wife for years that we have no need for any of them any more because our youngest baby is twenty one years old now! But she reminds me that they are also handy to use to keep the pets from going into room that we want to keep them out of if the need arises. The last several times we needed to use anything like that we tried a couple different pressure gates - we didn’t want to ruin the walls by drilling holes in them.
The problem with those gates, though, was that they frequently fell down. And of course, it’s never a good time for a baby gate to fall down! Come to think of it, we just used one of those two months ago when we needed to keep the basement door open to air out but we wanted to keep the dogs inside! OK, so maybe it IS a good idea we held on to them! I know that my wife would love to get more puppies in the future. She LOVES dogs! But I’ve always pointed out that it would be difficult in this house because of the open layout to keep puppies in the kitchen, where there is no carpeting. Just my luck she found some extra wide baby gates that can be used in different configurations that would probably take care of that problem! That’s just like my wife – she is always overcoming my objections! Probably something she learned in a marketing course!
A friend of mine told me that his female chihuahua is expecting a litter of puppies, and he wants me to have one of the puppies. He said I could have one for free! He said that they are pure bred puppies. I don’t know how much money chihuahua puppies cost around here, but I am under the impression that just about any pure bred puppy is expensive to buy. I didn’t know much about chihuahua dogs, so I wanted to get some pet information on the breed before discussing it with my wife. After all, it is a good idea to be well informed on a subject before bringing the subject with my wife – she has a tendency to be quite knowledgeable about just about everything!
