Trip to the Vet’s
A trip to the vet’s can be fun for the whole family. Of course, it depends on your family’s make up.
(This comic strip was previously published on August 3, 2009.)
When our friend Red from the M3 blog took her adopted Wombies to the SPAM Museum in Minnesota, the temptation proved too much for them to resist. As Spam loving Wombies, they were overwhelmed with all the history, exhibits, and especially the thousands of cans of Spam on display. So Bruno and Claret planned a small scale Spam heist. You’ll have to read Red’s Spam Crime? post to get the full story.
It’s easier to get an appointment to see the vet than it is to see my local doctor these days
Yeah Duncan, but the vet charges double 🙁
Maybe because most of their patients act like animals.
Vets have a better bedside manner, too.
Oh, that is the truth!!
That’s so true Duncan. Especially if you need a medical certificate for work because you were sick. Often by the time you can get an appointment you’re not sick anymore. Plus because you couldn’t get in on the day you were home from work sick you then have to take some extra time off work to go to the doctors, which can be a week or so later, to see about a sickness that you’re now better from…
It sounds like a highly efficient system. To discourage you from getting sick. Or claiming that you were.
It all sounds a bit screwy to me 🙁
Typical bureaucratic craziness.
Yet very effective in saving companies from paying sick time benefits. :/
Exactly what it was designed for, no doubt.
Hmm, Chris does look pale!!!
And he doesn’t have any fur, either.
If that Vet gets a chance he could be doctored 🙁 *yikes*
I wouldn’t mind if they doctored his sense of humor. He needs a better one.
Yes a good idea that Fraz, if we hurry we might be able to arrive at the vets before he gets there and then we can ask the vet to give him a few jabs 🙂
OK lets go! Maybe we could even video Chris’s visit for youtube!
That sounds like a lot of fun 🙂
I can see this one on Andro’s vids page already.
Chris might not like it so much though!
It should be the other way around.
I don’t want to go to the vets!
Me neither 🙁
I don’t think anyone does really. Besides the vet.
Yes he will be looking
forward to getting paid 🙂
Maybe I could be a vet. I like getting paid!
But do you like being nice to sick animals and worried pet parents?
Umm, I dunno. But I’d like making sick animals better!
Hopefully for Chris the bill was prepaid!
I winder if they’ll keep Chris if he can’t pay?
Thank you, Chris. Don’t bother with any of those free doggie treats on the receptionist’s counter either….their old and nasty.
They should have wine gums. They’re way better!
It’s about time someone came to get me out of that place! All they want to do it pock, prod, pinch, snip, and stick needles in me!…They’re meanies!
I think the more they stab you the more money they get!
You couldn’t be more accurate, Fraz.
I think it should be the other way around.
I hate the sharp thing too Cici
I think everyone doesn’t like the ouchies!
How come humans don’t fear the doc as much as animals?
Maybe doctors are nicer than vets.
Who says they don’t? We are more afraid because we know what they might do to us.
I wonder if a vet would be nicer to you?
Chris will be in for a surprise if they take his temperature…
No temperature taking!
Keep your back to the wall Chris and don’t bend down either or anything could happen 🙁
Around here, that is very true!
Maybe it’s just a routine check-up, Fraz…
🙂
Chris needs to get his grumpiness checked.
Why is Chris so Grumpy Fraz? 🙁
He needs more Wombie in him. And more chocolate too.
Right let’s start giving him some chocolate with every meal and maybe hypnotise him in to believing that he is a Wombie, it won’t be easy as he will resist but eventually it could happen 🙂 Maybe?
Maybe! I’ll ask Twink to start sneaking more chocolate into his food. I wonder if Binky could hypnotize him?
He could use his Choco Championship Yoyo, that should do the trick nicely 🙂
That should work! Chris will be a Wombie in no time!
ahahaha! Sometimes my sister and I wonder our dog actually thinks of us..
He probably wonders why you send him to the bad place where they do all sorts of scary things to him!
Hehe…actually he kinda likes the vet! That’s before and after getting into the examination room 😉 Loads of doggy toys and smells to keep his little tail wagging..hehe
I wonder if Chris’s tail was wagging when he went to the vet’s?
Bwahahahahahahaha. Apparently there is only one kind of doctor in the world. Too funny.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
The kind I don’t want to see!
Chris did scratch an awful lot. I think he needs a flea collar!
I’ll try to put one on him when he’s sleeping!
You would have thought that cologne would have kept them away.
It sure keeps me away!
Maybe that was the idea.
If it works, you and Winky could make a fortune by relabeling it as flea repellent.
Maybe we could! A very stinky flea repellent! It’d probably get rid of a lot of your friends too!
You get treats at the vets office 🙂
I don’t mind the treats at the vet’s office. But I don’t want to get treated!
Going to the vet is probably cheaper. Better drugs too I bet.
There’s always more interesting animals at the vet’s!
Yes until Chris arrives that is, I
wonder what the vet will think of him?
I dunno. Maybe the vet will have to keep him a few days to figure it out.
I was thinking a couple of months 🙂 At least…
That would be fun! I mean for us. Probably not for him.
Definitely not for him with all those vets probing him and things, but at least you could stay up all night eating chocolates 🙂
Yeah and not get yelled at! It’s nice not having Chris around!
Chris isn’t an animal is he? If he is, what kind?
He’s a people animal. Binky says he’s a human.
I think that is just a rumor.
I don’t know! Maybe the vet could do some sort of human test on him.
Oh Frazzie…you are so silly!
Well at least I’m not as sick as Chris!
Is he sick? I thought that
Chris always looked like that? 🙂
He kinda does but I still think he’s sick. Maybe the vet will give him some dog biscuits to make him better.
Maybe after this trip he will be chewing on everyone’s chocolate bars and nibbling through the Zombie traps, we need to keep an eye on him or he could be barking all night too 🙁
You think so? I hope the vet hasn’t turned Chris into a werewolf or something!
A Zombie Werewolf you mean? Now that does sound kind of scary 🙁
Especially if it’s Chris! He lives right in our house!
Fraz he’s not sick he’s just keeping jis options open.
Maybe he just wants to be a dog or something.
He looks a bit like a hyena, but then he doesn’t do much laughing does he? 🙁
No but he does a lot of yelling.
Yes jb is right this must be it
I am never anxious to go to the Vet’s since I do all my ‘picking-up’ of dogs n’ cats at the pet store in the mall! W.C.C.
I like to pick up all the cats and dogs in the pet store but Chris never lets me!
Perhaps Chris has Bieber Fever.
He better not! That could kill him!
OMG 😯 a Bieber Fever oh no God please lets pray for him
Yeah that bieber stuff is pretty bad for anyone.
Oh Poor Chris he was looking pale lately I thought it was the rocket launcher in the backyard but oh !
There are things only a vet can cure specially when it is Chris
I hope they fix up Chris good. I think he needs a few things fixed.
Well, he is an animal.
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Especially when he doesn’t like something I’ve done.
Hopefully they don’t take his temperature like how they do with my cat! 😉
Ewww!!
Ooooooh what gross thought 🙁
Yes Chris is a bit of an animal, I guess? Especially when he wears his Skunk Scented Cologne 🙁
Maybe they could de-scent him!
That would be brilliant Fraz 🙂
🙂
And then maybe they could make him smell nice. Like chocolate!
That could be risky, for him I mean 🙂
Yeah that might not be a good idea. He probably wouldn’t get past Winky in one piece.
I was not thinking risky. Expensive, maybe, but not risky. 😛
I think with Winky around smelling like chocolate might be dangerous!
When I was a kid we had dogs, and when it was vet time the would push back on their haunches, lunge to get away on their leash and all kinds of crazy things. What DO they do to them in there??? lol
I dunno. I’ll ask Chris what they did to him when he gets back.
Fraz, does Chris have a cold nose? or dry & warm? I would be worried too if he went to the vets by himself. those going to the doctors isn’t any fun either.
You may want to quarantine him when he returns, just so you wombies stay healthy!!
Maybe I should wear gloves when I touch his nose in case he has something catching! When Chris comes back I’ll tell him he has to stay in the garage for a few days.
I also wanted to say that Red did an awesome job with her story of you as spam thieves!
It was a very entertaining tale! Though some of the little guys insist Red’s account of the incident was exaggerated.
I agree with Faythe, and I can see
that Red’s little rascals had so much
fun there 🙂
I think Red was lucky to get them out of there without a trailer full of expropriated Spam.
Is Expropriated Spam a new flavor?
Yes, it’s quite hot.
I was wondering about that too Bo 🙂
Thank you, Faythe. They get into all manner of things when we travel.
xxx
Hahaha…so Chris is the pet and Fraz is the owner 😉
I do think of him as my pet sometimes!
Throw him a bone when he comes back 🙂
I’ll give him a squeaky toy too!
He might enjoy that Fraz 🙂
All pets like squeaky toys!
Not all…My turtles run away if I squeak a squeaky toy
They don’t like squeaky toys? Next time I come to visit I’ll have to bring something else then. Maybe a cuttle bone?
Maybe Chris got sick from eating Expropriated Spam.
Molly was riding with us the other day while we were going to yard sales and we turned down the street her Vet is on. She just hung her head and closed her eyes. She gets nervous whenever we go down that street.
She was sick a couple of weeks ago and had to stay there overnight.
Poor Molly! Dogs have a good sense of direction and place and certainly remember things. Vets may make our pets better, but the pet only remembers the trauma and being away from the ones s/he loves.
I must have the only dog who actually likes the vet. He gets all manner of goodies he cannot have a home when we go. His medicine tastes like (and reeks of) liver. *shudder* Plus, we always get ice cream on the way home. He loves ice cream.
Well that certainly makes things a whole lot easier on you and your dog. I guess some vets really make an effort to make it a pleasant experience for the animals.
Ahahah Fraz!!! LOL
Red made a lovely work with her adopted wombies. Mine are so shy. 😉 but don’t worry, they’ll be back. 🙂
Yes, Red had some great adventures with Bruno and Claret. I’m glad that Vanille & Coco will be back!
Perhaps, Vanille and Coco can go on an adventure with Claret and Bruno.
xxx
That would be an adventure!
Chris has got to pick up his flea meds!
I did see him scratch a few times!
He is always scratching and now that the Zombies have seen him doing it, they are all scratching too 🙁
The zombies got Chirs’s fleas?
I am Chris may come out fine except maybe ‘meowing’ now and then 🙂
If Chris comes back a cat that’d be good!
Thank you for putting up the Wombies adventure to the museum. I have some new ones I need to put up from the beach trip. They had a great time in the ocean.
You’re welcome, Red. It was a fun story. I look forward to your latest beach adventure.
Hahaha
🙂
Maybe it’s worms.
Chris does seem kinda wormy sometimes!