I have just left Finbar with the vet. He has to have a non-malignant lump removed. It started to bleed and won’t heal up if he keeps licking it. Best to get rid of it altogether.
He’s been left with a vet often enough to have wounds stitched up, so he probably knows the routine by now—jab, icky feeling, long sleep, icky feeling, sore stitches—even if this is a new vet. I’m feeling rotten because, intelligent as we are, there are some things we just can’t explain to a dog.
I hand the lead to the vet,
dog turns and in his eyes,
the single question—why?
So much we cannot say,
explain—he follows, unwillingly, afraid.
Trust betrayed.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Poor Finbar…I hope all goes smoothly and the healing is quick and uneventful. This one tugs at the heart. (K)
I hate leaving him. He’s only ever fully at ease with me.
With my cats it’s the same thing. Can’t stop feeling guilty everytime 😥
Cats let you know they are seriously displeased. Ours have always howled horribly all the way to the vet and all the way home again. And they remember…
I know it’s cruel to be kind, I always amaze at the way they accept you when you return to take them home, not just mans best friend every ones best friend. Well maybe not every ones…
It always surprises me how trusting they are when you leave them in a strange environment with people they don’t know. They haven’t got a clue why, but if their human says they must, they accept. Dogs are such good creatures.
Would that the human acted so with fellow human Jane.
My thoughts entirely.
Oh, poor Finbar (and you). I hope all goes smoothly. I totally understand that guilty feeling and trying to explain. . .
It’s silly, the explaining thing, but we all try, don’t we?
I always say goodbye to the cats and tell them I’ll be back soon when I go out, so I can’t say it’s silly. 😉
I’ve lost that reflex with the cats. They are so absolutely oblivious to what’s being said to them. When you shout at a dog to stop doing something wicked, he stops. You can shout at these cats until you’re blue in the face and they don’t take a blind bit of notice. I have no authority whatsoever.
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He trusts you implicitly and that is the wrench to the gut when those eyes look at your for the answer and you can’t give it. I wish him a speedy recovery and I wish you a conscience lightened by being able to make amends when he returns far better for his little op.
We’ve just been to get him back—vet couldn’t do him today after all. He had two emergencies (one died) and Finbar’s little lump on his tail is just going to have to wait. Poor thing. Back again next week.
Oh le pauvre …. but it would be worse if he was the one the vétérinaire couldn’t save. Can you put a lampshade on his tail to stop him irritating the lump in the meantime (I am only fractionally serious with this remark) 🐕
He hasn’t touched the lump since he came back. I don’t think it bothers him and he’s possibly twigged that the trip out and the lump on the tail are linked, so he’s ignoring it, hoping we will too. I shall ask the vet what he thinks about a lampshade for the stitches since Finbar always pulls them out. The agraphes are the easiest of all to get out.
Oh! Jane he will be fine. Finbar will bless you when he is better. 💜🌹
Finbar isn’t one to bear a grudge. He doesn’t know what’s going on—the vet couldn’t do his little op today after all. He had two emergencies. So we go back in a week.
Yes I saw, shame to have to go back, good job he was not an emergency 💜
I wonder if he’ll be so keen to jump in the car next week?
Now that’s a point 😷
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Betrayal indeed! Same thing happens with the kids when they go to school for the first time! I waited for hours for my dad to pick me up after paying the fee! I never truly trusted him again!
Ha ha! Yes, it’s true, you can tell children what’s going to happen, but if it’s something they can’t imagine they won’t understand.
I know right haha! Kids are smart but very simple!
And they bear grudges 🙂
You don’t have to tell me, My niece hits me more than my mom did all my life!
I bet your mother never hit you, ever! This is the new generation. Watch out!
Haha, I will!
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My best wishes to the confused Finbar!
Than you, Rishu 🙂 He’ll be fine tomorrow. I’m just a bit apprehensive about next Thursday when we have the rerun.
Ah! I see! Hmm.
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Touched my soul, my heart, I feel so awefully bad for Finbar… But it is for the greater good, isn’t it?
It will be when it finally gets done 🙂 It’s hard not being able to explain though.