How many dog idioms are there?
I have been suffering with a strange cough and sore throat for many days. It is worse, and most noticeable, at night and continues after I wake up until about noon. It’s horrible, and I’m not sure what the cause is.
So I picked up some cough drops on my way to the Humane Society today, at that new Safeway. They were pretty good actually, orange creme or something.
My friend Emily wanted one once I got into the Ed Hall, so I started telling her about my cough. We were helping out a dog with tracheobronchitis, or kennel cough. I realized that I had shared water with this dog. GASP!
"Can humans get kennel cough?"
"Ahaha! Sara has kennel cough!"
"Shut up, I don’t want everyone to know."
"Wait," said Lindsey, walking by with a large chow mix, "how would you get kennel cough anyway?"
It was a long story…
I had licked roughly 200 envelopes with wavers inside to send to the young campers coming in the next weeks, and afterwards we were all feeling a little.. loony. One thing lead to another, and soon my three camp friends (or so I thought) were persuading me to take a dare in which I drink out of a nearby dog dish… so I did.
The dog had kennel cough then, and was just getting over it now. Was it possible I had actually become infected with it? I decided to believe it. Besides, my new shaggy haircut was making me feel quite doggish. Arf.
It is usually a self-limiting disease and most animals do not require treatment. Intranasal vaccines are effective, but due to some possible side effects, are recommended for animals that are at higher risk.
Oh good, I should clear up in two more days or so, if not I’ll be sure to talk to my vet.
2 Comments:
Diseases pass between animals and humans - this is quite common. In fact, in societies where humans and animals live in the same quarters (eg. China where it is not uncommon to take livestock/fowl home and live with it til next day trading) the occurence of lung and tract infections are incredibly high. China (not picking on it, it's just a society that I've studied) has been the breeding ground for the majority of the world's lung infections for thousands of years. You may remember the hoo-har about SARS a while back. It was again traced from China and had links in the meat markets where raw meat and livestock shared the same space and where traders lived with their animals at night.
Animals, whilst cute, should not really share our space, and from an Islamic perspective we are forbidden to actually drink from any vessel that a dog has used - the risk of infection and the impurity of the dog's saliva is well known.
Anyway... er, goto the Doctor and get some anti-biotics or something, and the moral of this story is: don't do it again!! ;-)
THIS IS DIANA!!!!!!
Anyways....Im sorry that you have that cough thing...what is kennle cough?...IS IT DEADLY!? OMG SARA AHHH!!! NOOOO DONT DIEEE!! I love you!!! *Cries*
Anyways moose..
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