My early-morning trip to the vet. (Dial-up warning!)

[Call Me Wesley]

First, the world doesn't exist at 5:55 a. m. which was the time I had to get up to mentally and physically able to go to the vet with Ginger for his teeth-cleaning and with two cats from my mom. At 7:30 a. m. And the world doesn't even exist then. Sunrises, really not this spectacular, it's just like it gets brighter and people are coming outside.

So here it goes:

Down the hill, lots of curves, orchestrated protesting meows from the backseat. I felt like a cat-Mubarak. At 7:30 a. m.


Yeah, I guess it's a sunrise that throws some orange light on clouds. Big deal. You should see the sunsets here. SPECTACULAR!


People driving on coffee in their cars. That can't be healthy.


This is the airport. Pilots know that there's no flying at such early times. They need their sleep and rightly so. Would you fly on a plane with a pilot just tanked on caffeine with the sunrise right in his face? I won't.


Hello, mall! Do you sell coffee?


Great. Why is this even on at this time? Don't you know we have cats on the backseat. Better be green in no time!


HEINEKEN! HEINEKEN! Breakfast of the champions and I'm sure, our cats wouldn't hate me as much as they already did ...


Hello harbor. You're ships are still asleep, aren't they? Good. The red lights seem to be really on a morning craze, though.


At this point, the cats wished to be in Cairo, throwing stuff at me. That place is hell!


WE HATE YOU! YOU COULD HAVE SLEPT MORE AND LEFT US ALONE!


I'm tired now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Call Me Wesley!

Aw, you did take some pictures!

And they are wonderful...

It's always fun to see where other friends live...

Your part of the world looks just beautiful!

I hope that the kitties have all recovered, and forgiven you...

Thank you for these wonderful pictures!

:hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

5. It's pretty bland now.

Nothing really green yet. Kitties are in full recovery mode and don't seem to hold me accountable for it. ;)

:hug:

[snagglepuss]

2. I love the pics. Thanks for sharing. nt

[Call Me Wesley]

6. You're welcome!

Thanks! :hi:

[Bunny]

3. That's awesome!

Great story, great pics, too. :thumbsup: :hi: CMW!

[Call Me Wesley]

7. I have more of them, but I really like these ones.

Taken with the iPhone through the windshield with the Hipstamatic app, so it didn't really matter if they came out blurry. Here's an unedited one (was still dark) pic of them in the vet's office:



:hi: Bunny!

[givemebackmycountry]

24. They look pissed - and you are naive.

"They don't hold you accountable"
Yeah, right!
Those cats know they were not teleported to the vets.
They understand completely that YOU were the responsible party for their inconvenience.
"They don't hold you accountable"
NOT YET THEY DON'T.
But, they will.

[Call Me Wesley]

30. Of course they were not happy. ;)

I just can't show up with a cat taxi for another year, they know it and hate it.

And Ginger really cuddled with his mom rather than me the last night.

[tigereye]

41. where are the pix/drawings of you getting the cats into

the carriers? (3 cats, no less!) That was always a crazy op when we had cats. They HATED going in the carriers, even if they were only going to the groomers.

[Call Me Wesley]

43. Two cats are my mom's.

I had the carrier ready outside and Ginger was inside. Then he hears the other cats and ran to the door, wanting out. I just took him and put him in the carrier by surprise. He was not happy.

Usually, if we have to take all four cats, one always escapes.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Wow -- Palm Trees?!

In the Alps?!

Who knew?!

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Palmetto trees.

This is the Mediterranean section of Switzerland, next to Italy. You can see some of the alps in the pics, but not all Switzerland is a permanent ski ressort. ;) Although there is skiing here, too. If there's snow. :rofl:

[kentauros]

17. I suspected the Italian side when I saw

"Studio Veterinario". That's not very 'Swiss' sounding ;)

Lots of VW vans around though...

[Call Me Wesley]

20. It's the 'Veteran's office.' ;)

Nah ... What do you mean not very 'Swiss' sounding? We have four official languages, so yes, that's very Swiss. Also Italian. But very Swiss, too! Like French!

The VW vans come from the Swiss German part I think. One's a school bus, the other one some delivery thingie. :)

[kentauros]

25. I thought it was five languages?

Nonetheless, that's then the Italian-Swiss language, as I thought ;) Or is it Swiss-Italian? New-used or used-new? :P

VW pretty much has the market over there for utility vans. I don't know how many times I've seen them in whatever news event as delivery vans, ambulances and so forth. Here, you hardly see them at all, like it takes a special order to buy one or something...

We had one in the 80s, and it was great to drive. Nice turning radius, easy to work on, typical VW :)

[Call Me Wesley]

32. Most people also speak English,

but it hasn't made it as an official language yet. See language choice here: http://www.admin.ch/

Police uses VW too.

Note that 'Police' is actually written in English there.

But mostly BMW or even Mercedes. Classy! ;)
http://www.fahrzeugbilder.de/name/galerie/kategorie/Polizeifahrzeuge~Schweiz~Streifenwagen.html

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

9. Wow. You really do live out in the sticks don't ya?

:rofl:

Now you can prove to Heidi that you aren't a bad daddy! Good job sir!

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Ha! Ha! Didn't you see the airport?

We have aeroplanes here! Things that are heavier than air floating in it like a miracle! And check out this urban scene, with automobiles and streets (is taht an open cabrio behind the big white van? Must be a tourist):



;) And yes, I wasn't that bad daddy after all. Ginger still likes me.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

13. !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7lsfYXAcY&feature=related

You just need to work on your early morning attitude!

Found a better video!

[Call Me Wesley]

15. That's the problem.

I don't have an early morning attitude. I just look like all the others staggering outside like zombies, heading for some office to work on Microsoft PowerPoint presentations ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYTcOTJC-I

And then, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FECFb1_YdII&feature=fvw

:P

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

18. Awe shit

Synchronized disco moves? Really? :spank:

There is an ass kicking due!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYWPV3F41Y

[Call Me Wesley]

19. I kick your ask if you come out of the movie!

Still love it. :thumbsup:

Here's more about mornings:



Proof of black light:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

23. I "like" this N/T

[tigereye]

42. I think I would much prefer any drawn or general presen-

tation that you made. I hate Power Point. :puke: Often the last refuge of the unimaginative.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. I hope you opened up a magazine with a GOOD article in front of each kitty in the office...

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[Call Me Wesley]

14. LOL!

Sure, they already had the February issue of the 'Pussy Magazine.' The articles and interviews are great!



The examination went very well, thank you. My eyes are fine. ;)

[Rosie1223]

12. Those cats were yowling,

"put down the damn camera and drive!" "Two hands on the wheel!" "We want to get there in one piece!"

I hate backseat drivers.

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

16. That was their last concern.

I didn't text, photograph and drive. ;) My mom drove her big-ass Volvo like a tank again. Not sure if that was safer, but that was the only option. :hi:

[hippywife]

21. Wow! You scared me there for a moment.

I thought something happened to Ginger while Heidi was away, and thought how distraught she would be coming home on the train tonight!

You are a courageous man to talk ALL three of them in at one time. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

22. No worries!

I kind of announced it here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9612845&mesg_id=9612870
It was just their yearly teeth cleaning, and I managed to set it on a new moon day, which happened when Heidi was away.

So I got the head bangs last night every hour: "Where's the food? Why don't I have food? You know I need food, do you?"

And they're all fine now. Ginger's already eaten and roaming around. :)

:hi:

[hippywife]

26. You are a

great son & hubband, D. :hug: :loveya:

[pacalo]

27. Those are beautiful pictures! I especially love the border effect you used.

:thumbsup:

I hope your cats didn't give you this look:

[Call Me Wesley]

38. Oh, they did give me that look.

Pics are ,ade with the iPhone and the Hipstamatic app.

Thank you! :hi:

[blogslut]

28. Awww

Three pretty kitties in their sweet little houses...

[Call Me Wesley]

34. They really don't think of them as

'sweet little houses.' It's more like Guantanamo for them. ;)

[BrklynLiberal]

29. Great pics...and you took us along with you by your narrative. Excellent! Thanks.

PS Really cool cat carriers.

[Call Me Wesley]

35. Thank you!

The carriers are easy to handle, and they have full panoramic view. The newer ones are a bit different:

[xchrom]

31. for the whole story with pics...

:applause: well done!

[Call Me Wesley]

33. Thank you!

At least some fun saved from the awkward day. ;)

[nuxvomica]

36. Great pics but this thread really needed sound

I've taken two cats at once to the vet and it's a four-mile drive that seems like it took hours. Constant, constant caterwauling and I always note what I think is the half-way point, when turning around and going back home would be pointless. You are very brave. :rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

37. I agree, the sound is definitevely missing.

Heidi recorded it last December, when they went in for the immunization shots. So here it is NOTWANT .m4a-file. ;)

[Bertha Venation]

39. I love this.

Thank you. :hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

44. Thank you!

I'm just glad it's over. :hug:

[tigereye]

40. wait, that's Italian - thought you guys lived in Germany

or it is a part of Germany where people speak Italian... nevertheless, it looks amazingly pretty.


Cute pix- the cats (and you) were thrilled, eh? :hi:



whoops, that's it, you are in Switzerland near Italy. Never mind.

[Call Me Wesley]

45. Yep, Southern Switzerland.

There's no Italian speaking part in Germany, although they have some very strange dialects over there. ;)

We all were thrilled beyond belief, like: :scared: