The Fancy Dog Who Learned to Heal

by Tiger Tom

 

Once a very fancy dog began losing hair from his face and then from his neck and then from his armpits and then from his tail and then from the rest of his body. He smelled even worse than dogs usually do and he always had big gross globs of white stuff in his eyes. He was very upset. He had always been a fancy dog who loved to put on a lot of gaudy stuff and play the fool for humans.

His  condition was at first misdiagnosed as a simple case of the Three Day Mange. But  when he did not respond to the usual scrubbing and scalding therapy, the dog doctor recommended an emergency thyroid transplant.

Unfortunately,  no thyroid donor was available. While he was in the dog hospital waiting for a donor, Bowser, for that was our hero's name,  was enrolled in the dog hospital's special "Get A Life" therapy training courses. This program was offered to improve his job skills and, of course, to get more of the owner's money. 

When he had  "Shake" and "Roll Over" down pretty good,  on his twelfth day in the dog hospital,  the trainer came in, raised his hand over his head,  and  introduced a new command.  "Heel!"  he shouted.

As if by magic, the big globs of white stuff left Bowser's eyes, hair started growing in the places where it's supposed to, and he suddenly smelt no worse than most other dogs. In spite of the dog doctor's protests and dire predictions of  death and worse, Bowser left the hospital with his original thyroid intact. Soon, he was back to being his normal pompous , greedy and slobbery self.  

The Moral:  Be careful what you say to dogs. They are lousy spellers.

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