The title says it all!!
On Thursday, I decide to go out with the kids (husband at work) to do a bit of shopping and lunching. Then on my way home, I stop off at a chemist to pick up a prescription when I get a manic phone call. Grabbing my phone out of my bag in a hurry, (the shop is small and very very quiet, so my phone sounds like a really bad case of tinnitus) I hear my husband in a state of panic. Apparently he's come home early to find that Henry has eaten the cat flap and has his head stuck in the hole. Not only this, but he's got the runs (dog not husband) and it stinks. conversation goes like this.
"Oh God Mercedes, the dog's eaten the cat flap!" I don't know what he thinks I can do. "Bloody Hell, there's a horrid smell in here too, Oh God! he's pooed everywhere, it stinks, Oh God! He's rolled in it."
I say, "Get him outside and leave him, can you clean it up?" Silence, this is where he has selective hearing.
So, I get home and the poor dog has a mucky backside and is so happy to see me that he tries to jump up, so now I am covered in it. But this doesn't faze me, what does is that the man of the house is hidden away in the lounge, with all the windows open and has not gone near the poo. so I have to clean it up and wash Henry down with the help of the kids, then rush him to the vets. Luckily, we put the cat flap together and don't think he's swallowed anything. I suspect he had the runs and in a panic not to soil the utility where he's locked up when we go out he tried to get out of the cat flap. Bless him.
I thought men were supposed to be all strong and manly. John Wayne types. Ha! more like Kenneth Williams if you ask me.
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Hmm, amazing what they can ignore isn't it. I had a rabbit with the same problem yesterday and yes, husband in living room with windows open! Showering a rabbit is definitely a two person job though so he didn't escape:) Hope Henry is feeling better!
Men are amazingly squeamish on this front. My friend's husband will leave a pile of cat-sick/poo on the floor as long as it takes for my friend to clean it up, rather than do it himself - he just wanders around heaving!
Sounds like he did nothing, rather than everything.
Even titles need proof reading sometimes!
OMG! I would have gone mad!! Its amazing how many men are like this though!
Hope henry is feeling better, I can imagine he was very grateful to see you!!
captain Black, my title was a tongue in cheek wit. This is how my hubby thinks, that without women they would cope. Duh!! I like to differ.
Mercedes i am well with you on this one, i am amazed how often i get told " your dog has pooped and needs clearing up" is this the same dog that follows same man around all day and never leaves his side! The same dog that husband said " i don't want anything to do with it", he obviously was referring to the poo side of things. The poo thing doesn't matter too much now as we are always shoveling the stuff, horse, duck and chickens but thats the country for you.
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