At the vet
Two colleagues, huffing from the effort, carried me through the waiting area tied and muffled like the worst of criminals. As I passed, the other animals in the waiting lobby stepped back giving me pitiful and embarrassed looks. The agents gabbed with the doctor’s secretary, then they took me in a little ambulatory and laid me on a bed. Pending the veterinary’s arrival the two people stayed by my side, kept looking at me sadly and giving me a few pats.
«What the hell got into you, so suddenly?» the oldest one among the two scolded me looking at me sympathetic, with glossy eyes.
«Among all the people present at the funeral you had to bite the more bastard one? Poor Leo, what a dishonourable ending!» he added gently caressing my back, that I arched instinctively when his hand g
