Vet Bills: Get a fish
$1300
Um that would be the toal for the vet bills from LAST WEEK ALONE. Let’s see Frannie was $270 at my regular vet for a stich (laceration repair) and drain. Then Mamo got diagnosed with Lyme’s Disease – another $200. Then Frannie RIPPED OUT her stiches, and of course did it on a SATURDAY so I had to take her to an Emergency Animal Hospital that charges $150 JUST TO SEE a vet. The “work” is all extra.
So the grand total for just that care was OVER $700. sigh….Thank you Frannie! So I waited over 3 hours on a Saturday night (Vin’s birthday) to see the doctor with her. Yeah 8 months pregnant and all. Then I left her at midnight and had to come back to get her the next morning at 7 am.
So now she has a HUGE cone on her head – she is stitched, has a drain and a bandage. The wound isn’t even that bad but I don’t want her to rip it out again!
In the good news department I learned just how cheap my vet is!! In the bad news dept it was becuase I got ripped off my the animal hospital! LOL So now we go back tomorrow, and every 3 days for the next two weeks for bandage changes, drain removal, and then stitch removal. So the bill is still running but we won’t be telling Vin that. LOL.
Ugh….why don’t we just have goldfish!?
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?
As a pet lover all I have to say is if my dog’s are not creating me at the Pearly Gates I am going to be totally pissed. I saw this poll conducted by ABCNews in 2001 as many as 40 percent of people think heaven is reserved only for people. WTF?! How can dogs NOT go to heaven. Hello…dog spelled backwards is God. Doesn’t anyone pay attention to the hidden messages!?
However, theologians seem to disagree. In September 2003, the editors of Dog Fancy magazine put the question to various religious leaders and experts in what it termed an extension of the debate over “animal theology”. Here are some of their thoughts on the topic:
1. “Heaven was designed for humans. The reason dogs may be there is for us, not for themselves. Dogs will go to heaven perhaps because of our relationship with them. I would think a loving God wants us to be happy and allows us to have animals that shared love with us.” — Rev. Brian T. McSweeney, vice chancellor of the New York archdiocese.
2. “Dogs are subject to reincarnation … as well as the law of the karma, which determines the form of the reincarnation. Dogs can go to heaven or dogs can go to hell. A dog’s actions decide where it goes, like a human’s actions.” — Lama Pema Wangak, directory of New York’s Tibetan Buddhist Center
3. “The vast majority of Southern Baptist believe only human have souls, which most likely preclude dogs from reaching heaven. But the Bible notes that someday the lamb will lie down with the lion, which would lead you to believe that heaven may be somewhat like it is here, and there may be animals.” — Herb Hollinger, a spokesperson for the Southern Baptist Convention.
4. “Everything, humans and animals, every blade of grass, all are endowed with a spirit and every spirit returns to its creator….Every animal based on how it lives in this world will reap its reward, its divine bliss in the world to come.” — Rabbi Gershon Winkier, an exponent of mystical Judaism who lives in Cuba.
5. “I think the species as a whole is a natural shoo-in.” — Stephen H. Webb, associate professor of religion and philosophy at Wabash College and the author of On God and Dogs.
I miss my Bruno, and Sunnie, and have quite a few dogs in my life now, that while when they pee on my carpet I threaten to kill them, would be miserable without. The bigger question beyond if dogs go to heaven is – if heaven is supposed to be an ideal world, how can it be so without pets? I am pretty sure they will have their dog beds and elevated raised feeders or even their orthopedic dog beds waiting for them at the gates of heaven. And if that is not going to be the case, I will protest with them outside.
