Thanks for the Doggie Ping!
Here's a cute little true dog story:
Sickroom, shaggy style -- John C. Sounders, Jr., M.D.
While making a house call, I was greeted in the yard by a large, friendly collie. He followed me to the door and, when the patient's wife opened it, pushed in ahead of me.
No sooner had we entered the sickroom than the dog jumped on the bed and began licking the patient's face. This show of affection was all right except that I had to examine the man and the dog kept getting in the way.
It wasn't long before I began to get a bit irritated. I wanted to ask the man to get his confounded pet off the bed, but I hesitated to offend such an indulgent dog lover.
After I'd completed the visit and was halfway down the front walk, I heard a sharp rapping on the window. It was the patient;s wife. "Doctor," she shouted, "you forgot your dog!"
We are holding a discount microchipping day this Saturday and we are charging $A25.00 (which is about $US18.00).
If people ring up looking for their lost pet that isn't chipped our policy is to invite the owner to come down and look at the dogs/cats we have here; quite often how one person descbes a dog or cat is not how we would describe it (breed etc). We have to hold animals for a minimum of 7 days before we put the dog/cat up for sale.
We will hold a dog for as long as it takes to get them a new home. Our adoption rate is quite good.