Daisy Donuts' vet just stole Christmas!
Posted: 25 Nov 2022, 15:50
Petey has long passed the Rainbow Bridge (and I would assume is crapping the yard around my mansion in Heaven) We are now two full years into the next Boston Terrier named Daisy Donuts. Again, I had no input into the naming of this bane nor the acquisition thereof.
In only 2 years, she has successfully chewed the edge off of the stairs at the entrance to our foyer, removed the windowsill in the Dining Room, chewed a hole in the leather couch, and so much more! What a joy she is. While she only cost about $800 initially, she has generously rang up about 2 to 3 thousand dollars worth of damage so far. She is on track to catch Petey by her 3rd birthday.
As many of you know, this past week, we had tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to our home from a burst pipe. I also had surgery. The house is destroyed. We have a $2500 deductible, and since the home is 27 years old, we will have to replace 2/3rds of the cabinets at our own expense because there are no cabinets that can be made to match the ones we currently have. We expect to be out of pocket about 10K personally for the repairs ourselves.
Wednesday night, DD started acting lethargic. She was clearly in distress, but of course, not until 6:31pm. One minute after the office of Dr. Cashsucker had closed. The only alternative was to use the Emergency Theft (vet) about 20 minutes away. Daisy was truly sick. I didn't even complain about taking her. She was crying and couldn't walk up the stairs. This is significant for a dog that has no trouble jumping from the floor to the back of the sofa to tear the blinds out of the window in order to more appropriately threaten a squirrel on our deck.
When we arrived there was a sign that said, "call this number upon arrival". so we did.
The perpetrator: "Hello this is the Emergency Theft. How can we rob you today?"
Me: "We have a dog in great distress, apparently GI. We are afraid she has eaten something blocking her tract or has been poisoned"
Crook: "We will be right out with the paperwork. Please have your credit card ready."
The Toady came out wearing black, and a mask as would be appropriate for the one about to rob you. She had a clipboard, and she knew how to use it.
Crook, "Please fill all of this out including your SSN and DL #'s so we can take you to court if you don't pay our confiscatory fees. Include all of your credit card information. We will go back in and charge the $175.00 base fee to your card and then we will come get you dog if she isn't already dead from waiting so long. By the way, you can wait in the car. We don't allow victims into our office.
Me: "Thank you. Please help the poor girl."
Mrs. Piper: "Yes, and we don't care how much it costs!"
Me: begins to cry
The Toady escorted Daisy into the office while Mrs. Piper and I sat freezing in the car for the next 2 hours.
After a while the phone rang.
"Hello Mr. Piper? This is Dr. Larsen. We have done an X ray, CBC and Metabolic panel. Your current charges are $1249.00. All tests are in the normal range and she doesn't appear to have a blockage. Her stomach is distended and appears to be very full of food. I recommend we give her some inexpensive generic stomach medicines for her to take for the next week. These two prescription will be $178.00 and added to your charge card ok?"
Mrs.Piper: "Thank you so much for taking care of Daisy Donuts! What would we ever do without you?"
The Toady returned DD to the car which by now had icicles hanging from the ceiling and frost on the windshield. We drove home.
I AM NOT JOKING!!! Right as we walked in the door, Daisy Donuts FARTED a blast that would have rocked the Titanic! Been fine ever since.
It's just adding insult to injury. I mean, once your broke, "broker" is only relative. I will be in my man cave crying and reading Indeed.com looking for side jobs. No Christmas this year.
In only 2 years, she has successfully chewed the edge off of the stairs at the entrance to our foyer, removed the windowsill in the Dining Room, chewed a hole in the leather couch, and so much more! What a joy she is. While she only cost about $800 initially, she has generously rang up about 2 to 3 thousand dollars worth of damage so far. She is on track to catch Petey by her 3rd birthday.
As many of you know, this past week, we had tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to our home from a burst pipe. I also had surgery. The house is destroyed. We have a $2500 deductible, and since the home is 27 years old, we will have to replace 2/3rds of the cabinets at our own expense because there are no cabinets that can be made to match the ones we currently have. We expect to be out of pocket about 10K personally for the repairs ourselves.
Wednesday night, DD started acting lethargic. She was clearly in distress, but of course, not until 6:31pm. One minute after the office of Dr. Cashsucker had closed. The only alternative was to use the Emergency Theft (vet) about 20 minutes away. Daisy was truly sick. I didn't even complain about taking her. She was crying and couldn't walk up the stairs. This is significant for a dog that has no trouble jumping from the floor to the back of the sofa to tear the blinds out of the window in order to more appropriately threaten a squirrel on our deck.
When we arrived there was a sign that said, "call this number upon arrival". so we did.
The perpetrator: "Hello this is the Emergency Theft. How can we rob you today?"
Me: "We have a dog in great distress, apparently GI. We are afraid she has eaten something blocking her tract or has been poisoned"
Crook: "We will be right out with the paperwork. Please have your credit card ready."
The Toady came out wearing black, and a mask as would be appropriate for the one about to rob you. She had a clipboard, and she knew how to use it.
Crook, "Please fill all of this out including your SSN and DL #'s so we can take you to court if you don't pay our confiscatory fees. Include all of your credit card information. We will go back in and charge the $175.00 base fee to your card and then we will come get you dog if she isn't already dead from waiting so long. By the way, you can wait in the car. We don't allow victims into our office.
Me: "Thank you. Please help the poor girl."
Mrs. Piper: "Yes, and we don't care how much it costs!"
Me: begins to cry
The Toady escorted Daisy into the office while Mrs. Piper and I sat freezing in the car for the next 2 hours.
After a while the phone rang.
"Hello Mr. Piper? This is Dr. Larsen. We have done an X ray, CBC and Metabolic panel. Your current charges are $1249.00. All tests are in the normal range and she doesn't appear to have a blockage. Her stomach is distended and appears to be very full of food. I recommend we give her some inexpensive generic stomach medicines for her to take for the next week. These two prescription will be $178.00 and added to your charge card ok?"
Mrs.Piper: "Thank you so much for taking care of Daisy Donuts! What would we ever do without you?"
The Toady returned DD to the car which by now had icicles hanging from the ceiling and frost on the windshield. We drove home.
I AM NOT JOKING!!! Right as we walked in the door, Daisy Donuts FARTED a blast that would have rocked the Titanic! Been fine ever since.
It's just adding insult to injury. I mean, once your broke, "broker" is only relative. I will be in my man cave crying and reading Indeed.com looking for side jobs. No Christmas this year.