Key's Visit To Dr. Blue

Every year both Key and Juliet get a chance to see old and new friends at the Vet's office when they get their annual checkup. What a great staff at the “Harris Parkway Animal Hospital” and our most favorite vet in the whole wide world, Dr. Ann Blue DVM. Last year it was a big deal because we were dealing with the recovery of Key's injuries....minor as they were.......when in his enthusiasm to meet some cattle got the best of him and decided to sail out of a window on our motor home along the Sam Houston Toll Road in Houston.
That little trick resulted in a broken tooth repaired by (the world’s most expensive root canal) (done at a wonderful animal surgery hospital in next door Arlington) as opposed to having the tooth extracted. We opted for the root canal because we were leaving on a trip to the west coast and an extraction would have required more recovery time before traveling. We didn’t have the time. We had a schedule to meet.
So, as we planned for this year’s exams I expected both dogs to speed through their exams and we just finish whatever else we have to do to make sure we have all of the tags and records required for travel.
Not so fast, old RV driving boy! This dog has another tooth problem! “What” I said.” I can’t believe it. The same thing as last year. ” Let me see” Sure enough, there was a smaller tooth next to a larger canine tooth wacked off at about a 45 degree angle. Well, something has to be done. “So, what’s our options?” I said. As it turns out it would be better to just pull the tooth because they can do it there at the Vet’s office…………and it cost about half of what a root canal does. We have plenty of time this year, but we will schedule this pretty soon anyway. The bigger problem is how it happened. Key is a good dog but he has a couple of bad habits that probably is the reason he has this broken tooth. For one thing, he hates to see squirrels running around his trees on the patio like they own the place. So since he can’t get to the squirrels he takes it out on the tree. The Bradford Pear is holding its own though. The other problem happens every time the postman drives up in front of the house to the mail box. Key can’t get to him because of the gate, so he takes it out on the gate. Unfortunately for me, the gate isn’t fairing too well. I am pretty sure one of these two things is the cause of the broken tooth. I wonder how I could get “The Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan to my house for a free coaching visit.