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Minnie and BowWow Discuss Rehab
[For the uninitiated, BowWow is the small, somewhat churlish white dog and Minnie is the larger, very mellow black dog.]
BowWow: This fucking laying around all day is getting to me, Minnie. When in the H are you going to get better?
Minnie: I don’t know, BowWow. It’s a torn ACL. These things take time.
BowWow: Well, if the people weren’t so fucking cheap, you could’ve had surgery by now. Fucking tightwads. Oh, they can’t afford surgery for Minnie but they ride around in their big truck all the time, talking about vacations, buying tickets to shit.
Minnie: The surgery was $4,000, BowWow. That’s a lot of money and I’m only a dog.
BowWow: They should’ve signed you up for Obamacare. Everybody’s got it. You could get the surgery and some fucking counseling, too. You know, learn how to live with your disability. PT. All that shit.
Minnie: Obamacare is for people, BowWow. Not for dogs.
BowWow: That’s fucked up! I hate Obama. He never did anything right. I bet he included cats. Asshole.
Minnie: I loved President Obama. He had a dog named Bo. Remember? This new President doesn’t like dogs, says we have germs. He seems real worried about germs.
BowWow: I’d like to lick my ass and then give him a big fat kiss on the lips. He’s an asshole, too. They all are.
Minnie: I am a little worried that the man is talking about a new dog.
BowWow: Motherfucker. You’re kidding me. He’s talking about getting a NEW dog while you are laying here in immense pain on the living room floor. Unfuckingbelievable.
Minnie: Well, I can understand how he might want to plan ahead. He wants an Alaskan Husky, I’ve known that for a long time. I tried to measure up but it wasn’t in me. I’m just a big Beagle.
BowWow: Oh God. Don’t get sad, Minnie. I can’t handle that. No sad shit.
Minnie: I’m not sad. I know he loves me. He’s just planning ahead. Who can blame him? We’re not going to be the last dogs to lay on these beds and that’s okay. Don’t you want him to be happy?
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Oh, that Bowwow!
I love the way you hear what Minnie and Bowwow
Are saying….
Jan, I sympathise. My wife Pammie and I were doing our annual household budget a couple of weeks ago and discovered to our horror that the most expensive things in our house were – in order of doling out cash – 1. Our 15 year old cat’s vets fees, 2. my dental bills, 3. Pammie’s optician’s bills and 4. our whack towards our youngest son and his wife getting a mortgage on their first new house of their own. Food and our own health bills came a poor fifth and sixth. But Minnie and Bow Wow should appeal to my sister. She takes in sick dogs from the hounds rescue society for Southern England and has five terminally ill poochs living with her at any given time. But their vets’ bills are paid by the rescue socety. It may be a dog’s life but it’s fun. Anton
Minnie and Bow Wow, I waited two months before I did the ACL surgery for our 5 yeAr old husky. No easy solutions and all have long recovery. I needed to decide the best use of resources as my dog was not getting better. We went for string surgery that was significantly less and it worked (more sophisticated name but cannot remember it) with Dr Wright. ❤️❤️To you both as Mom and Dad decides what to do!
Aww. They’re adorable.
I love them both! Wise beyond their years and breeds❤️
I love Minnie.