elegy wrote:

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:12:34 -0700 (PDT), Nessa
wrote:


I don't get how someone can take a dog to the vet and not have them on
lead.


i don't get how someone can carry a dog to the vet on a leash, walk in
the front door, set the dog down, and take its leash off.

no. really.

Scully is the least worrisome of my three in the vet's waiting room.
When we walk through the door she immediately develops tunnel vision,
completely ignoring other dogs, people and the office cats and proceeds
directly to the aquarium. She takes the seat to the immediate left of
the tank, I take the seat next to her and she presses her nose to the
glass and watches the fish until it's time to go to the exam room.

I suspect the aquarium is intended to be calming to pet owners, but it
does a great job on Scully, too. On one visit she was visibly upset to
find a man sitting in her favorite chair with his cat in a crate on his
lap. She looked at me, at him, whining and fidgeting. He asked what
was wrong with her and I apologized and explained that she always wants
to watch the fish and that he was sitting in her favorite chair. He
laughed, moved down a couple of seats. She took up her station and
became immediately oblivious to the rest of her surroundings.

She loves the giant fish tank at the BassPro Shop, too. She's obsessed
with the big albino catfish and will move up and down the length of the
tank until she locates him. If he's holed up under a rock she'll
eventually shift her attention to other fish, but he's obviously her
favorite.