i raise you a even less bleeding Goldie Hawn:
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The radioopaque markers are made of a proprietary blend of adrenaline, meth, and tungsten powderâŚ
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Um, as a guy who a few weeks ago had to rush his cat over to the vet in the middle of the day because he had a severe stroke, I have to ask- what the hell is wrong with a facility to treat pets?
If the argument is that we shouldnât put animals through hugely painful and expensive treatment that they canât understand, I get it. Otherwise, I need an explanation.
(The cat in question, Boo, is now playing on that big farm with the tuna and the mice in my imagination. Sniff.)
Stanch. Staaaaanch. Stanch!
I canât speak for the original commenter, but Iâm a little baffled by the specificity of âcat hospitalâ
Iâve never seen anything that species specific. Iâve seen veterinary hospitals, and Iâve taken my dog to the veterinary emergency room (he thought it would be fun to eat a bunch of fly agaric mushrooms).
Why are cats so special they need their own hospital to the exclusion of dogs and other pet species? Honest question, not meaning to be offensive. I just thought that veterinarians usually had medical expertise for at least both canines and felines, plus other species.
You ever taken a sick cat into a room with dogs before?
Iâm not saying I need a cat hospital (my vet does everything). But I understand.
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A cat-specific hospital means there is no need to worry about separating the species, and enables the vet to become a specialist.
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Good point.
The ER where I took my mushroom eating dog had several enterances. One general, and a couple off to either side, one for dogs and the other for cats. They had partitions between the three areas as well. It was a nice place. They had a whole 4 story building that used to be a human doctorâs office before the great recession.
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We carried âTamponsâ for years to perform the same trick. Not a new concept really.
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Ha, I thought bryanâs post said âCat Hospitalâ because I have the xkcd substitutions extension. I thought he must have meant âCar Hospitalâ, which would be far more Murican.
Sorry to hear about Boo.
But I said âshould not need to existâ as in, it makes me sad to know that any cat ever needs the services of a cat hospital. My cat has had two fairly major operations (five days apart, too; was a hell of a week for both of us) and has also been to an emergency vet clinic in the middle of the night. So I am glad those services were available to us, but I wish there was never any demand for such things.
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Thanks.
In his last week, he wandered the house one night. We had switched him to straight tuna in an effort to get his weight back up (vet approved, since he was also eating dry food but had still lost a lot of weight from diabetes). We were out of tuna that day and had given him regular âtunaâ cat food. He looked EVERYWHERE for the tuna- under the sink, in the pantry area in the kitchen, in the living room, in the bathtub, even in the toilet (I guess since water is related to sea, he figured the tuna would hop out of the toilet). It got so funny that my wife had to run out at midnight to the all-night pharmacy just to get him some tuna as a thanks for the comedy routine.
Great lap cat, great mouser, friendly as hell. I miss him, but Iâm glad we had him.
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He was a close second.
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