The Truth about Cats and Dogs (at the Vet's)

My dear old collie had to go for a second blood test today as the first one showed he had low calcium & high potassium but he had to be retsted as in 98% cases that can just be an anomaly in the phials they use to collect the blood.  Upshot was he had the blood taken (same vein as last time) almost fell off the table when the assistant stood on the wrong side of him when he made his usual break for freedom, good job I had a secure hold.  We were than asked if we wanted to wait as it would take 5 or 6 minutes to retest at the surgery, or go home and be called later with the result; we chose to wait.  Had we known what was about to unfold we would have opted for the latter. 

Waiting room is gloriously empty and collie lies down, really wanting to be home for his breakfast.  Enter a lady with 2 cats in cages and all hell breaks loose, well sorta.  Lady puts the cats down facing collie who is by now in a state of near apoplexy.  I have never seen a dog shake and shiver himself into such a state before, but then this is a collie who has been tormented beyond the realms of reason by the neighbourhood cats parading themselves along the garage roof to peer down at him as if to say 'yah boo sucks mate, ya can't get me up here' (well the cat equivalent anyway), they are almost laughing at this poor collie in a frenzied twisting blur racing from one end of the garage to the other barking furiously up at them. 

Had my camera been working the other morning I would have had a brilliant picture with which to illustrate my point; sadly said camera had gone on strike (must be affiliated with a certain union at the moment, but that's another story entirely) which was a shame as it was a really fine tableau of collie standing in the garden looking up at a black cat perched on the garage roof looking down at him.  No-one moved, even the birds were still anticipating the dog to suddenly get up to the garage level or the cat to fall.  Neither happened but the cat saw me and took off, which caused more barking and mad dashing to and fro from collie. 

Lady with the cats turns the cages round to face away from collie who stops shivering a little - but he was having a moment all of his own there this morning.  Then the vet comes in and says bloods are fine and we can go - well once we've paid the bill, cue more shivering crying, semi-howling, and that's just the husband! 

We seem to attract cats, despite hubs and I being allergic and the dog just hates them on sight.  What a morning, don't know about the dog being worn out, I know I am.

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