Ussies At The Vet

We have to go where????!!!!

We had to go to our vet the other day, it was just a routine visit, thankfully, as voiced by petcretary, since she left a huge wad of green papers there, and that doesn't include the scripts for heartworm...sigh...

Oh well, we got checked over, had some lab work done, and all is well. Then we got poked and jabbed...and Dr Ben put some vile tasting medicine in our mouths, apparently to keep kennel cough away...we need that in case we have to be boarded at the doggy jail if *she* needs to go anywhere for longer than a night or two. We were good boys and didn't put up any fuss, and Dalton even gave Dr B a kiss, imagine that!

Dr Ben said that Dalton has lost several teeth, but that most of the remaining ones actually look good, and he said Benji's teeth look excellent. Hooray! We do get kelp on our noms, and a gel to our teeth every other day. And we recently got a nice big water fountain, from which we love to drink. Much fresher than out of a stagnant bowl, even though *she* cleaned it diligently and put it full of fresh water every day.. She says she refills our fountain with 4-5 cups every day, which means we are drinking more than with our old ceramic bowls.

We were happy to exit that place and go back home to our yard...

And we got some rain, not much as of this publishing, but some is better than none. Our grass is all crunchy and the trees are dropping leaves just as if it was October! We may get more as this day progresses...then none in the forecast till much later in the week. Oh well, dry weather is better than floods, or severe storms. And we won't grumble cause we have no fires right in our locale, nor earthquakes as we heard about from various places in the world. (Speaking of fire, we still have moderate amounts of particulates in the air, but the raininess should lessen them.)

Petcretary found a swallowtail butterfly in the grass, it seemed to be struggling, so she gently picked it up and put it onto a purple coneflower...where it sat for a LONG time. When she was finished with the yard duties, she went back to check on it, but it was gone, hopefully flown away. Later she found a viceroy...it too was not doing much, but since it was in the path of where we like to run along our fence, she picked it up too, and put it onto some nearby flowers. Later it was gone as well. She did an inventory of all the pictures of butterflies she has, (not including moths) and found several. Maybe they will offer to be volunteer guest selfies one of these days. Petcretary wants to get a picture of a black swallowtail, that she has seen flitting around some of our flowers, but was not fast enough getting the phone/camera out of her pocket. Now we know why she always says, she needs a phone IN her finger!

We want to get out of here NOW, petcretary!

We are joined up into the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted as always, by The Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head.