Tonight: Get out of the vet ER with pet, wallet intact

Is it possible to get out of the veterinary ER with both your pet and your wallet intact? Veterinary critical care specialist, Pet Connection blogger, and tarantula evening gown-designer Dr. Tony Johnson says, “Yes,” and he’s ready to tell you how.

I’ll be interviewing him tonight at 9:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Pacific via the Animal Wise Radio Network for the second weekend of PetHobbyist.com’s Thirteenth Annual Chat Month. (Oh, and PetHobbyist is now ConnectedByPets.com, so don’t get confused!) He’ll be joining me at 9 PM Eastern Time/6 PM Pacific, right here.

He told me to remind you to bring your BeDazzlers, and well as your questions, which you’ll be able to ask if you join other listeners in our Auditorium chat room. If you don’t want to join the chat, you can listen to the interview on your browser or your mobile device — find out more  here.

You can also post your questions here before the interview, b ut I won’t be checking during; for that, you’ll want to go to the chat room.

Please listen in… Dr. Tony is, as we all keep saying and as his own posts prove, dangerously funny as well as, you know, smart and stuff.

“See” you there!

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“Dog Ate My Wallet,” Claims Speeder

A man who had already lost his license because of a drunk driving offense thought of a unique idea when Ontario Provincial Police pulled him over for speeding.  “The dog ate my wallet,” the clever fellow told cops, according to the Toronto Sun.

Well, if you’re a police officer and someone tells you this, what can you do? Ask for an x-ray of the dog’s stomach? No, apparently you ask for name and date of birth, and you run it through the system. (The car belonged to the driver’s mother, so the license plate didn’t send a red alert about the driver.)  Driver Michael Macleod, 22,  proceeded to give the officer the name and birthdate of someone he knew. Ah, what a good friend! The pal he impersonated received the speeding ticket and complained, and the truth came out.

So Macleod’s license has been suspended for another two years. Let’s hope he stays out of the driver’s seat this time, or at least doesn’t try to make his dog seem like an imbecilic iron-stomached glutton again if he gets caught.

(Photo: Nate Christenson Flickr photostream)

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