Originally posted by lovemyshiba

> You not only know all the characteristics of a good "stool," you discuss them at dinner.

> You absentmindedly pat people on the head or scratch them behind their ears.
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> Anytime the animal appears lethargic, you go on-line and investigate vetmed websites, pose questions to your address book and on e-lists, and by the time you digest all the information and field the correspondence, the animal has
torn out the window screens, masticated a couch cushion and left something disgusting in your favorite pair of shoes.

> You needed a prescription to recover from "Old Yeller."

> The world would never guess from your "dog or kittyspeak" posts to e-lists that in reality you are chairman of the IBM corporation.

> By the time you investigate different flea control products, their
advantages and potential risks,natural versus chemical methods, and study the life cycle of the flea, any fleas have died of old age.

> You tell your children to "heel!" in a grocery store.
Hehehehehe I thought the ones I quoted were especially funny, but they were all great!

A couple weeks ago, my friends threw me a surprise party for my birthday. We were all around the dinner table yacking about roundworms and hookworms. Most of my friends there were from the shelter so we didn't think twice about it until we saw the looks of disgust on all the husbands' faces! HAH!