Did anyone catch "King of the Hill" last night (Fox channels)?
I don't care for the show...but it caught my attention when I turned on the TV last night. It is a animated cartoon (same creators as the Simpsons I think) and it was focusing on cats and vets! The main character is a real....."Man", Hank, who because of his patrotic heart decides to help out "the fighting man" who was shipped off to Iraq and sign up to watch a soldier's pet while he is deployed. Thinking all the while that he would get a manly dog. As it turns out...he ends up with a cat.....he hates cats....and this cat was ALL cat! From hacking up hair balls EVERYWHERE including the kitchen table during dinner to peeing in Hank's shoes. It wants attention and attacks the "boy" Bobby whenever he stops petting it and attacks Hanks feet when he's trying to be manly with his buddies in the alley.
Never having had a cat before....they are worried about the "strange" behavior of this animal and since they have committed themselves in writting to "doing everything possible to maintain the health of this animal" including taking it to its normal vet (think specialty vet....we all have them) off they go.
Well whoever wrote this episode deserves fan letters! I was laughing so hard....the vet examines the animal and it seems ok...but to be certain...better run a blood panel...Well the blood panel looks good...but the white cell count is a bit high..."which could mean nothing..or could mean cancer"....So to Hanks horror he runs uranalisis (sp?), blood pressure, sonograms, x-rays, exploratory surgery, put the cat in a wheel chair cart...etc...refusing to sign off on the form that "everything's been done" until it has...all the while several hundred then thousand $ from the Hill family's vacation budget are being spent on this cat.
The show ended with Hank taking the cat to his reg. vet who, much to Hanks dismay says that the other doctor is a GREAT doctor, and just trying his very best to see to it that the cat has the very best care..."but cats throw up Hank! They attack feet from time to time, and some of them bite...they can be aloof one minute and loving the next. They're CATS not dogs. This little guy will die one day, but not of anything he has right now." Hank points out to the specialty doctor that there is a pc.of absurdly expensive equipment that he doesn't own so How can he give the "best care possible"? and the doctor finally signs off on the form.
I hope some of you caught the show. We can ALL relate, I think.
Anyway check you tv listings for the rerun....I think its something everyone whose ever owned a pet should have on hand for those times that, although we are driving ourselves into bankrupcy with vet bills, STILL have that guilty feeling that we just aren't doing enough!
Whether you can relate to the main character or not...it'll make you laugh at yourself, your vet, your cat...and the whole situation we so often find ourselves in...(and after just spending $244 on a vet bill the day before...with surgery looming for one a few weeks from now...I NEEDED IT!)
T
:)
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