She looked at Franklin's chart, and then:
Vet: He doesn't have his rabies shot?
Savia: No. He has all his shots except for rabies.
Vet: Well, we can do that today for you.
Savia: No, that's fine. He is an indoor cat.
Vet: Well, you know there are a lot of bats in the city.
Savia: But he doesn't go outside at all.
Vet: Sometimes, bats will fly into your house and bite your cats. It happens, you know.
Savia: [Looks at vet like she's high on cat urine.]
Vet: So, do you want the shot, then?
Savia: Uh...no.
I expected that she might say something like, "What if your cat gets out of the house and gets bitten?" which would be a reasonable argument.
But a bat flying into my house and attacking my cat? I mean, by that logic, I should be getting a rabies shot, myself. Chances are, the rogue bat would go for the tall creature first.
Note to the lady who is not my hot cowboy vet: trying to scare me with freak occurrences involving rabid bats is not going to help you sell your quota of rabies shots.
Franklin would kick that bat's ass, anyway.
7 comments:
Is that cat in the dryer?
awww, he's so cuuuuute!!
also, she seemed pretty sure about this chance occurrence of MAYBE a bat getting into your house and attacking your cats.... maybe he's plotting it right now,... like, in a tree with blue prints to your house... and he'll come in all "Mission impossible" like...
HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT WITH THAT ROGUE BAT OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE!!?!?
Cec,
Yup, he's chillin' in the dryer. That's the first and last time I've let him do that.
Diva,
zOMG - I'm never sleeping again!!
She seemed really sure of that. I bet she has a pet rabid bat that she sends out to get animals without shots. You're screwed. Diva's right.
1. I've had bats come into my city apartment (years ago when I was still a part of civilization) through some kind of mystery hole no one ever found. I would wake up in the middle of the night with a bat circling my head. It scared the shit out of both me and my cat- but no one got bitten.
2. Google image search Australian Fruit bats. Not only could it bite a cat, I think it could pick it up and carry it back to its lair.
I'm totally with you on this one. Vet just wanted ya money.
Pav,
I took your advice and am now twitching a bit (also twitching at your story - that would have freaked me out to no end.)
As for the images of the Australian bats, I can't even begin to imagine a winged creature that large coming at my head! I'm glad I live in Canada. I will take the cold winters over that any day.
I may have nightmares ce soir... those beady eyes and creepy yet somewhat disturbingly cute faces. I think they may be bigger than my dog. Ugh.
Just to be safe, that pet should have been given rabies shot anyway. You don't want to be consulting with a los angeles dog bite lawyers if any untoward incident happens.
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