6:54pm March 14, 2013

➸ Making Room for Other Roots: I can smell things.

youneedacat:

My evening staff person has the same cold I just got over. And he reeks of that bug. I don’t know what it is that makes people smell different with different illnesses but colds have a distinct smell.

So apparently do some forms of cancer. I knew once before anyone else…

There was this one vet I took my dog to. And the entire waiting room smelled like the collective terror of dogs and cats built up over time. When I tried to comfort my dog, the vet told me not to bother because she wouldn’t understand me. (This is a shepherd mix with a huge huge receptive vocabulary mind you.) that told me why the waiting room had that smell. Since then I’ve been really careful to smell waiting rooms at vets. If they smell of collective terror there’s probably something wrong with the vet.

My normal vet for that dog was totally different. He always asked her questions about whether her injuries were from chasing squirrels again just like he was talking to a human and she totally responded to that.

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