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A man visits the vet with his parrot, which is looking decidedly poorly :x
The vet spends quite a while examining the parrot, listening to it's heart and lungs, checking it's reflexes and looking down it's throat before proclaiming, in a very definite manner,
"I'm very sorry, sir, but your parrot is dead"
The man looks at the vet in absolute horror,
"No, that's just not possible. He was talking to me not 2 hours since, squawking and pecking the bars of his cage. He can't be dead! I want a second opinion!"
So the vet sighs and leaves the room for a couple of minutes.
When he returns he has a large black labrador with him. He pats the examination table, where the parrot is lying, and the dog jumps up onto the table and starts to sniff the parrot.
After a while the dog jumps back down to the floor and sits quietly by the vet's side.
"You see, sir" said the vet, "my dog isn't interested in your parrot - please believe me, the parrot is dead!"
By this time, the poor man is distraught and, in a shaky voice, says,
"I still can't believe that my parrot is dead - surely you can do better than bringing an old dog in to diagnose this problem?"
So the vet takes the dog out of the room and is gone for a few minutes before returning with a siamese cat, which he places on the table next to the parrot.
The cat sniffs the parrot and immediately turns his back on it and sits with his nose in the air, on the edge of the table.
The vet, once again, addresses the parrot's owner,
"Even the cat can't find a jot of life in your parrot!"
At this, the man quietly says,
"Very well, I suppose I must give up hope now and accept that my parrot is dead"
With apparent relief, the vet goes and writes out the man's bill and hands it to him.
"YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!" (w00t) (w00t) "How can you justify a huge amount like this, just for telling me my parrot is dead??"
The vet calmly looks at the man and says,
"Look here, not only have you had a consultation and a diagnosis from me, but , because you would not accept my opinion you have had the added expense of a Lab report and a Cat scan!" (w00t) (w00t) :lol:
The vet spends quite a while examining the parrot, listening to it's heart and lungs, checking it's reflexes and looking down it's throat before proclaiming, in a very definite manner,
"I'm very sorry, sir, but your parrot is dead"
The man looks at the vet in absolute horror,
"No, that's just not possible. He was talking to me not 2 hours since, squawking and pecking the bars of his cage. He can't be dead! I want a second opinion!"
So the vet sighs and leaves the room for a couple of minutes.
When he returns he has a large black labrador with him. He pats the examination table, where the parrot is lying, and the dog jumps up onto the table and starts to sniff the parrot.
After a while the dog jumps back down to the floor and sits quietly by the vet's side.
"You see, sir" said the vet, "my dog isn't interested in your parrot - please believe me, the parrot is dead!"
By this time, the poor man is distraught and, in a shaky voice, says,
"I still can't believe that my parrot is dead - surely you can do better than bringing an old dog in to diagnose this problem?"
So the vet takes the dog out of the room and is gone for a few minutes before returning with a siamese cat, which he places on the table next to the parrot.
The cat sniffs the parrot and immediately turns his back on it and sits with his nose in the air, on the edge of the table.
The vet, once again, addresses the parrot's owner,
"Even the cat can't find a jot of life in your parrot!"
At this, the man quietly says,
"Very well, I suppose I must give up hope now and accept that my parrot is dead"
With apparent relief, the vet goes and writes out the man's bill and hands it to him.
"YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!" (w00t) (w00t) "How can you justify a huge amount like this, just for telling me my parrot is dead??"
The vet calmly looks at the man and says,
"Look here, not only have you had a consultation and a diagnosis from me, but , because you would not accept my opinion you have had the added expense of a Lab report and a Cat scan!" (w00t) (w00t) :lol:
