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Veterinary Practice News Editorial Blog:
Monday, March 17, 2008
Ignore the News and Find Some Veterinary Laughs
By Marilyn Itturi
Editor of Vetpracticenews.com and Veterinary Practice News
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Sometimes the news gets to be too much to bear.
This past week saw New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer crash and burn in a spectacularly humiliating fashion in front of God and everybody.
In the middle of the week came the story out of Ness City, Kansas, about the woman who sat on the toilet for two years. During all that time, her boyfriend brought her food and water, trying to coax her out. "Maybe tomorrow," she'd say. At some point her backside purportedly grew over the toilet seat, which had to be pried from the toilet in order to free her. Rescuers took her and the seat to the hospital. The local sheriff suspects they both suffer from what he called “diminished mental capacity.” Ya think?
Late in the week, an Indiana man decided his children, a boy, 11, and a girl, 7, should “learn how to kill,” according to news reports, and tried to get his son to kill the family kitten, Boots. The boy hid the cat and put ketchup on the knife Dad gave him. Dad was enraged when he discovered the animal was still alive. So he gave his daughter the knife and, holding her hand in his, made her stab the cat a number of times.
Aarrghghgh! No more news for me! Give me escapism, silly jokes and riddles.
One afternoon out of desperation, I Googled “veterinary humor” and discovered that some veterinarians must be as tired of the news as I am. A number of veterinary hospitals’ websites feature sections about pet humor.
Silly stuff, most of it, but a welcome respite from the unceasing deluge of bad news.
San Carlos Veterinary Hospital in San Diego, for example, has a lengthy section with lots of funny things to behold. Some are stories, others are photos.
Check out, for example, “Why the Dog Left Home” (www.sancarlosvet.com/Humor/index.shtml) and be sure to read “Punny Dogs.” Among the offerings in the latter:
- Pekingese + Lhasa apso = Peekasso, an abstract dog; and
- Bloodhound + Labrador = Blabador, a dog that barks incessantly.
In West Oswego, Ill., River Heights Veterinary Clinic also hosts a humor page on its website, www.riverheightsvet.com. For smiles, read “Dogs Try to Remember” (including “I will not eat the cats' food, before or after they eat it” and “The diaper pail is not a cookie jar.”)
Readers who love dogs will get a chuckle or two out of the dog haikus on the site. To wit:
Today I sniffed
Many dog butts--I celebrate
By kissing your face.
Do you have a favorite veterinary or pet joke, one that makes you crack a smile no matter how hard you try to resist? Send it to me at miturri@bowtieinc.com, and I’ll share the best of them with you in an upcoming post.
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