Camilla and I assign human qualities, or human properties, to our dog; The Boo. We know that we do this and we also know that for the most part he does not actually have them but we do it anyway. We do it because we want to, because he is a full worthy member of our little family.
I don’t know if I have to point this, above, out to you since I write some much about him; and in a certain manner, I’m guessing you all ready have figured that such is the case.
So yesterday I had to take The Boo to the vet. He has a hot spot on his neck and we had to give him a shot to calm down and cut his fur around the hot spot. All of that went well. The hot spot though turned out to be several hot spots since they spread really fast and a bigger part of his neck than first anticipated had to be shaved. Here comes the crap part: They gave him a wake up shot and wake up he did and when he woke up he was in such pain (from the shaving of fur over open soars) and so disoriented. He cried out; lengthy, desperate, loud, pain-ridden moans. He looked at me with (and it might be me projecting human emotions again but I think not) his eyes questioning what I had done to him; what I am doing to him and begging me to stop. I tried to hold him, to calm him down but I had no success.
I have never felt so helpless, so left out there, so guilty, so useless and angry at the same time in all my life. I never want to go through something like that again and more importantly; I never want The Boo to have to go through anything like that again.
He’s feeling better today. He’s on antibiotics and pain killers but he’ll be all right. He’s walking around the apartment with thick socks on his hind legs to prevent him from doing too much damage if he were to scratch himself. Poor guy.
How can you not love this face?
