And so my wait begins

[RKirby]

On the flip side...its kind of a bummer. My birthday is in six days. If they would have taken another week I could have gotten a whole extra year out of it. :)

Congratulations!



I hear ya on the birthday...mine is coming up soon also. Although another year would have been nice I don't think I could have taken much more waiting!

[codecowboy]

Congratulations!

I hear ya on the birthday...mine is coming up soon also. Although another year would have been nice I don't think I could have taken much more waiting!

Very true. I've been anxious about this ever since I mailed it off. Now I have the agonizing wait of waiting on the plastic.

[NcongruNt]

Your handle reminds me of this:

[NcongruNt]

What about your brother and father's licenses?

[codecowboy]

What about your brother and father's licenses?

They waited about two weeks longer than me to mail theirs. I had to flat aggravate them to get them to finish the paperwork. And even then I had to help them and mail them myself.

So they will probably get theirs in early April.

[soccerguy59]

Congrats, I also received notice that mine is approved on 3/19.

[codecowboy]

Congrats, I also received notice that mine is approved on 3/19.

Cool! Congrats!

[codecowboy]

My day started out bad. I had to take my cat to a specialist in College Station. Before I ever made it home all the cats teeth had been removed and my Glock 26 fund took a severe hit. I was at $385 saved up. Now the fund is at -$415. Yup....$800 to remove all the teeth.

So I pulled into the house and took the cat inside. Did a few things around the house before I decided to check the mail. Started flipping through it....junk mail....junk mail....bill....bill...junkmail....Texas Department of Public Safety....bill...junkmail..
WAITAMINUTE!!!!!!!!!!

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen......we have plastic. And in record time too. 52 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes after I mailed the application I was certified and licensed by the State of Texas to carry a concealed weapon. Even better because it expires in 2012. They went ahead and gave me five full years. My birthday is in two days, so I don't know if they were kind or what. Either way I'm pumped.

So a rough start to the day ended up being just fine. I guess I'm out of the waiting room!!!

[KBCraig]

My day started out bad. I had to take my cat to a specialist in College Station. Before I ever made it home all the cats teeth had been removed and my Glock 26 fund took a severe hit. I was at $385 saved up. Now the fund is at -$415. Yup....$800 to remove all the teeth.

Congratulations on the plastic!

I feel your pain on the vet bill, but going to College Station... double ouch! I just had to tap the "gun fund" to the tune of $447, myself. Thankfully it didn't involve a trip to A&M, which would have tripled the bill.

For eight months now, we've been treating our Standard Poodle (senior dog in our pack) for "allergies". Our other three adult dogs have done some "more than normal" scratching, but Alpha Poodle has scratched himself hairless in several spots, and has used his long snout (which extends beyond the E-collar) to worry other spots into bloody messes.

Our usual vet, who we like and otherwise trust, is pretty conservative. When the "scratchin' itchies" moved from the hounds to us human folks, we knew it was an unwelcome critter, so we tried a different vet. He took a couple of skin scrapings, prepared a slide, and 30 seconds later I heard him yelling down the hall, "Hey! Y'all wanna see some sarcoptic mange?"

<Popeye>How embarraskin!</Popeye>

(Did I mention that Mrs. Craig is a professional groomer? Talk about the cobbler's kids having no shoes... )

But back to the topic of critter care... the new vet said he'd seen less than 10 cases of sarcoptic mange in his career. And in fairness to the former vet, skin scrapings reveal Sarcoptes scabiei canis mites less than 50% of the time, so diagnosis is usually a matter of elimination and treating symptoms. He said a classmate of his had just recently been stumped by "allergies", and sent a dog to A&M for a workup that cost over $1,000, only to find out it was sarcoptic mange. The treatment of choice is $60 worth of Revolution.

In our case, because we have four adult dogs, six puppies, and five cats (all of whom must be treated to prevent re-infestation), we had to lay down big bucks for medicine, not to mention a half dozen cans of Repel Permanone to coat all our beds and upholstery and rugs with 0.5% Permethrin.

Good luck with your toothless cat, though!

Kevin