[Beamers Mom]

Boo-Boo
"Dismissing dogs as animals that don't have feelings" reminds me of years ago in England. We had our Yorkies (Penni and Tuppence), but we also had Lhasa's, we bred Lhasas at the time. When I was giving Hsun-Ni and Tzu-Hsi their baths I noticed "hot spots". We took them to our vet. Unfortunately he was on vacation and another vet was standing in for him.
She asked when we noticed the hot spots. I told her it was when I was bathing them. She then proceeded to tell us that dogs do not need bathing, we should let them swim in the stream! Huh?? Excuuuse me? let them swim in the stream? there wasn't even a stream close to our home.
Then, when she had Hsun-Ni on the table, my husband was close to him, and Hsun-Ni gave him a kiss. Then this vet said we should never let a dog lick our face. It wasn't healthy. She also told us that they did not have feelings and we shouldn't treat them like humans.

We picked up the dogs and left telling the receptionist that we would pay for a vet visit when we saw a vet who loved animals. Receptionist said she understood as we were not the first to complain about this vet.
We were so glad when our regular vet was back from his vacation.

I wouldn't know what to do if I didn't get doggie kissies regularly!