The Couch - 109: CIX-Reintroduction

I am embarrassed that happened in Detroit!

Several years ago I was in a bad horse riding accident the resulted in snapping my collarbone into 4 pieces, breaking ribs 1-8 on the left, puncturing a lung and trying to bleed out into my chest cavity.
I earned myself surgery, a week long hospital stay AND a morphine pump.
Til the morphine pump I never understood daytime TV. On the morphine pump daytime TV was AWESOME!!!! It still disappoints me that no TV will ever be half as good as morphine pump TV...

Oh yeah - when i was in the hosp with my ministroke and crosseyed and they kept starving me to give me tests on an empty stomach, i loved honey boo-boo and her ketchup spaghetti!

Good times.

Everything is relative. Considering how I felt BEFORE the morphine pump when the first ER doctor missed my boroken ribs, bleeding lung etc and set me home with 800 mg ibuprofen and a sling....the hospital bed and morphine was heaven.with the sort of fractures I had my arm was no longer solidly fixed to any part of my body, and I literally had bone jamming into my lung the sling and ibuprofen didn't get me far.

The plate and 8 screws, morphine pump, chest tube and oxygen were all massive improvements.....

The first ER doctor accused me of being a drug seeker. Because obviously as a veterinarian with my own DEA license the easiest way for me to get drugs was to break a bunch of bones.

We have a horse at the rescue that is named Sketti.after the ketchup and margarine dish...

I got my middle dog and pup (old guy just looks at me in disgust when I offer him fruit so he gets a glucosamine chew) some dried baby bananas tonight from my favorite impulse buy store -Trader Joes. They love them. It turns out that dried baby bananas are very disgusting. They are not like the freeze dried chips - these are brown and bendy and sticky but have no sugar or anything added.
And two of my dog love them.

"Reality TV" is no more real than anything else on television.

The bar for "arsehole" is set pretty high these days. I doubt you qualify.

Its cuz they probably know the joke - whats brown and sticky? A stick! - and they think they are having one over on you.

I don't actually know how to turn on our TV. There's two remote controls and a button on the side of the screen. I never know which combination of buttons I need. Now and then someone explains it to me - but then I don't use the TV for half a year and I'll have forgotten how to turn it on. :+

I wish that sometimes. For me I think wouldn't it be lovely to live in my own personal cave with a lagoon out front for swimming. Artie's island, yeah. But it would need wifi so I could still talk to y'all.

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Yeah but I could do without the internet too. Just recluse myself from the entire world. I just dont wanna deal with people anymore.
By the way I know this is my severe depression talking. It might change if this passes.

I would need the internet to order the dogs their snacks

I went through a (mercifully brief) period a few years back where I baked the cats' treats. Lord, was that messy.

I do still make some things for the dogs. When we went sheepherding more frequently, I would get lamb lungs from the farm and dry those for them. Dogs really do like the most disgusting things. The cat was only interested in the fish bars.

Glad to see someone else shares my priorities about some things

Always. There is always soemthing going to happen. Especially if I do a certain thing (answer phone, pick up a pen etc) I saw myself doing before.

My parents are always criticizing my choice of high end, amazing quality food and treats for my dogs. Thankfully we have an amazing speciality store near by where I can get them from.

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I would probably ask how my spending habits had anything to do with them.

On the one hand what you do with your money is none of their business.
As a veterinarian and biologist it amuses me that people spend so much money on specialty food etc for dogs . dogs have spent 30,000 years coevolving with us to basically be our walking trash compactors. They do just fine with "meat by products" unless they are a pure breed with allergy issues or they have health or digestive problems. I can't make myself buy the super cheap dog food because I won't buy generic frosted flakes for myself. But they definitely are thriving on less than top tier food

They are both purebred and have serious allergy issues. My boy is allergic to grass, wheat, soy, chicken, and corn. The cost of those tests were pleasant. My girl just eats what he eats, easier. I feed mostly a raw diet of lamb and venison with rice. They do well with it, better than some other things I was feeding them (high end hard foods).

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If I would let him, one of my dogs would happily live off of the cat's litter box.

I do have one dog who has allergies (it is the rescue mix -both of the pure bred are super healthy about what they can eat-one I got from a breeder and the pup is a breeder turn in to rescue because he is not show quality) and the wrong food will send him into skin itch/open sore hell. Interestingly enough - he cannot handle some of the really expensive kibble either - it will create the problem just as much as some of the cheaper brands. I have found two brands he can eat without incident - so that is what all of them eat. For awhile I thought I was going to have to make all their dog food by grinding chicken or lamb and adding in vegetables and so forth. And while I found it fun to experiment with for awhile, it got exhausting and I was greatly relieved when I found the two commercial brands that worked.

On the vet thing - I have gone to vets who pushed the brands they were selling in their offices even where my dogs were fine on grocery store dog food and I have seen those who only used specialty food to treat a specific situation and only until it cleared up.
I had a cat once who cost me a fortune in special canned food for a chronic problem.

We had to go to grain-free, chicken-free food for our Scottie because she was having awful allergy issues. Everything turned around within about a week of changing her food over. Worth the extra money for the food if it keeps us out of the vets office.

Yes if they have allergies you get what they need to keep them healthy no matter what. No argument there. If my dog needed to live on nothing but Kobe beef I'd do it. But there is so much marketing out there that suggests ALL dogs need specialty food and that's not true.

I won't do any work on my own birds so I have a veterinarian for my parrots. I switched because the one kept insisting I had to feed the expensive food his clinic sold. My new bird vet gave me a list of good foods and said feed a mixture because birds are picky and if they are used to a single food and suddenly you can't get it they may refuse to eat at all and get very sick. That advice made more sense.
Though I'm convinced my African Grey only uses his parrot food for target practice and survives solely on the human food he can steal when he is out of his cage. He is flighted so he is tricky. I should get a video because if you are eating a banana he will dive bomb you, impale the banana on his beak and fly away with as much as he can get...