Our cats Bonnie and Clyde were due\u00c2\u00a0for a visit to the vet.<\/p>\n

This is something that my wife usually takes care of, but last time I received reports\u00c2\u00a0about extremely bad behavior by Clyde, involving biting the vet and a note in his file that said ‘patient declined procedure’.<\/p>\n

So, I wasn’t totally surprised when it was announced the other day that it was MY turn to take the kids to the vet. Which I did. This morning.<\/p>\n

Of course, the calm, relaxed and protecting father figure I am, I was sure they would completely trust me and we’d be home before they’d notice we’d left.<\/p>\n

There was only one minor issue that I’d overlooked:<\/p>\n

Clyde does NOT<\/strong> like having his temperature taken with a rectal thermometer and is NOT<\/strong> shy about making this clear.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short .. as early as next week, they start redecorating, if not completely rebuilding,\u00c2\u00a0the Minton Animal Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(It’s now 3 hours later, Clyde is in the closet and hasn’t spoken to me yet .. all I get are dirty looks: I think next year we should try to trick daughter Laurilee in taking them – IF the vet\u00c2\u00a0still ‘invites’ them, which is by no means\u00c2\u00a0certain -)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our cats Bonnie and Clyde were due\u00c2\u00a0for a visit to the vet. This is something that my wife usually takes care of, but last time I received reports\u00c2\u00a0about extremely bad behavior by Clyde, involving biting the vet and a note in his file that said ‘patient declined procedure’. So, I wasn’t totally surprised when it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-emotions","category-sad","category-spitting-nails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}