Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sally Goes to the Vet by Steve Huneck

Sally Goes to the Vet by Steve Huneck

Rating: 4.5 stars

I'm so glad we had this book on our (borrowed from the library) shelf, because we had to take Lulu, our black dog, to the vet yesterday.  In the book, Sally the black lab "plays the chasing game" with her friend Bingo the cat.  She is running too fast to see a root in front of her, and she trips and falls and hurts herself.  She's carried to the car and the vet examines her--looks at her eyes, her mouth, x-rays her, and then gives her a shot.  Sally wonders if the shot will hurt; the vet says if she thinks of a happy thought she won't feel a thing.  We get a cute shot of lovable Sally with a thought bubble of an ice-cream cone.  After she gets home, she tells Bingo about her trip to the vet, including how she learned how to think of happy thoughts.  The last page shows the two friends cuddling together, with a thought bubble coming from Bingo, with Sally in it.  Cute!

Here at our house, Lulu just needed a bordatella shot.  Lorelei was really interested in going in with her (if it's just a shot, a vet technician can just take the dog back alone, without us, or we can go back with Lulu) to tell Lulu to have a happy thought.  We had a lot of fun wondering what that happy thought might be for our own black dog: a treat, some leftover meat, popcorn, Guidry (our other weimaraner), or maybe Lorelei and Ben!  As soon as we got to the vet's office, though, Lorelei and Ben both became way too interested in the tiny kids' play area and forgot why we were there.  Good ol' Lulu shuffled back with the vet technician and emerged back so quickly that Lorelei and Ben insisted they needed five more minutes of playing time.

Maybe next time they'll want to hold her paw during her shot.

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