The Things In Life I Never Thought I Would Say I Had Done!!

Currently I am out of work so I am up in the air what to do. Go back to corporate America if their have me! Or try and find something that I know I will love and stick with.

So when I saw an ad for a job as a Vet Tech Asst in the paper I jumped at the idea. I have worked in a kennels before, which will feature in the second part of my story!!

By the way maybe you didn't know that these blogs are your story time. So if you want to grab a beverage of your choice and relax then knock yourself out, actually don't knock yourself out as I will then be writing for no one!..................................

...............................................Once again back from a digression, but don't say I didn't warn you. I like to think they are trips into cul-De-sacs of my mind!!!! Damn can I get deep at times or what?!

I hear you saying Kate for the love of the god that you don't believe in tell us the frigging story will you!!!

Ok! No need to get snappy, obviously some one needs to take a nap after story time!! :-)

Long and short of it!! Yeah like I could ever tell a story in a short version.

The vet offers a course where you can learn to be a vet tech assistant. She will teach you everything that you need to know to work in a vets, and if she likes you herself she will hire you.

To see if I thought it would be what I would like she offered me a chance to come over one day and hang out.

So today was my day. Up at 5.45 am Yippee Quick digression.. I am not a morning person!

At the vets at 7.40 am. Well today is her surgical day, which she had told me about. I was a little nervous about how I would react. Would I pass out, smack my head on the floor and be concussed for days, possibly suffering amnesia!! Or would I throw up all over the poor animal we were operating on.

Well I am pleased to say that I did neither.

But what I did do was on a list that I had figured I would not have to pull out in my life. I mean the name of the list is "Things I don't ever plan on doing in my lifetime!

But today I got to scratch off one of them.



I got to pluck a cats balls!!!

What the fuck? I hear you say. Suddenly a little more interested in the story now aren't we?

Yes I did say pluck a cats balls.

The cat was obviously a male, or I guess there could be an hemaphrodite in the animal kingdom. But for the sake of the story we will say it was a male cat. Actually the name probably would give it away Brutus!

Well Brutus was indeed that. A big brute of a tom cat. He was going to be neutered and declawed, which my personal opinion on that as a cat lover is INHUMANE!!

Anyway back to big balled Brutus. The tech told me that I needed to pluck the fur from the balls so that the Dr could slice em and yank out the testes.

Well of course what's going through my mind is... Ok I see a little initiation for the newbie, lets see if she'll pluck a cats balls. I said don't we shave them? No, the Dr likes them plucked.

So I began a plucking!!! Amazingly they came out kind of easily. Oh just in case you were wondering about my safety. The cat was under anesthetic.

I consider myself to be some what of a cat whisper! But hey I don't think even I could have talked the cat out of scratching my face to shreds as I pulled each ball dangling hair!

So now you can see why I can cross that one off my list. By the way I also got to watch a toe amputation and also a tumor removal, and of course the de-furring and de-balling of Brutus!

I did on my return home from work have an issue with Frosty my cat that I will tell you about in another blog, sitting infront of my monitor. So I looked at him and said "You may want to reconsider that, as I now know how to pluck your balls!" Being the Prince of the house that he is! He looked at me, blinked once and sat on the keyboard!!

But I can always use it on one of the others!!

definitely think this is the job for me.

Now to the second part of my story. Does anyone need a bathroom break before we start?

Ok, Jones hurry up!!...................................................... There's always one!!............................................

Ok part 2.

I used to work 5 years ago at a kennels, the only job I have ever loved and actually worked on little sleep, or a 102.7 temp, normally if I am 98.9 I'm calling in!!

But I loved this job. As with the vets this is where I got to cross off another item on the same list.

I got to put a diaper and suspenders on an Old English Sheep Dog!!!!

I know you think I'm making it all up, trying my creative skills out in the realm of fiction writing. I wish I could say yes I was, but it is infact true.

She was an old incontinent dog , who needless to say used to pee in her room. So we would put the diapers, regular human depends! on her. But she would mange to get them off. So I believe it was the owners came up with the idea of the suspenders. She would have different colors for each day. And at Christmas she would have ones with snowmen, Christmas trees and Santa.

I kid you not.

Now I think that if you had not already come to the conclusion after reading my blog so far that I was a cool chick. You would have to give me this one, I mean really how many people do you know or think you may meet in your lifetime that can say.


1. I plucked a cats balls
2. I put diapers and suspenders on a dog.


Think about it, see you can't think of anyone can you?

So that therefore moves me up a notch on the cool chick scale! And also means that you have to come back to my blog to see what other crap I have done, or am going to do.