I LOVE full moon weekends!

Ok, so the full moon isn't actually for another couple days. but still... this is the phone conversation I just had:

Bloke: I've got a sick puppy, can I bring her in?
Me: Well, what's going on?
Bloke: She's having trouble breathing, if you listen to her she sounds kind of gurgly. She got sick a while ago, and we gave her some penicillin and human antibiotics and she sorta snapped out of it and got worse again.
Me: How old is she, and how long has she been sick?
Bloke: She's about...well, she's had her parvo shot... she's 4 months old, I think.
Woman in background: she's 6 months old
Me: Ok. how long has she been sick?
Bloke: about 3 1/2 weeks now
Me: Well, has anything changed that makes it an emergency tonight, or is it something that can wait until tomorrow? If she's been sick for that long, what made you call tonight?
Bloke: Just that if we wait until tomorrow she'll probably be dead.
Me: Alright...
Bloke (interrupting): I've got $75 I can put down on her, but that's all.
Me: That'll cover an exam if you come in tonight, but not any medications or x-rays or anything. If you come in during office...
Bloke (interrupting): Um, just... can I call you back?
Me: Yeah, that's fine.

Going off half-cocked...

...is such a fun phrase. But totally applicable in this case. It seems that PeTA, ever on the search for people to chastize, has sent emails berating Reverend Jason Armstrong in Anchorage, Alaska for subjecting animals "to cruel treatment and danger," by forcing them into roles in the church's annual manger scene.

The catch here is that PeTA's research folks failed to look at what they were slinging mud towards. The only animals shivering in the cold in THIS Nativity are (human) members of the good Reverend's congregation.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/743548/peta_mistakenly_targets_alaska_church/index.html


by the by--I've received 2 more emails from PeTA begging for money for dog houses. It seems that so far this year, they may be able to get dog houses for THREE hundred dogs. Maybe they should take the salary that Jackie Vergerio, (PETA's captive animals in entertainment specialist--in charge of the above harrassment) away and buy more dog houses with that?