Today was that dreaded VET trip when the mere introduction of a car into the daily routine seems to take the normal placid demeanor of the animals and transform it in to a frenzy of panting, tangled leads, whining and the strange need to simulate a furry pinball on the back seat of the car, and this is just on the way to the vet.

But fear not Curly (Coco) had saved the best for arrival. After checking in and taking a seat in the waiting room everyone simmered down to a mild panic but then I noticed Coco assuming an all to familiar position. At first I dismissed the notion as impossible but soon enough the reality became all too clear, she had decided that the waiting room was the ideal environment to allow her gastrointestinal system to express itself. I have a slightly differing opinion on her choice of timing when you now have three crazed animals on their leads, an older gentleman with a perfectly behaved dog giving you the evil eye and a steaming little present in front of you. I'm pretty sure that this would be the perfect setting for one of those hopeless nightmares when you trying so hard to run but your legs cant move.

Thank God the Vets timing was superb and the surgery door opened at the perfect time for me to escort the dogs in to the surgery, remedy the "situation" and catch up with entourage inside the room where the aforementioned pinball behavior had resumed. You would think at this stage of their lives that would have realised that walls generally are fairly fixed structures, unlikely to give way to some scratching, bumping and licking but as was the underlying theme of the trip, all reason falls away in face of blind panic. Its amazing how difficult a 4kg dog is to control when it believes it is fighting for its life but we all managed to survive the inoculations with only some minor scrapes and bruises, which were all suffered by myself and the Vet.

I'm not sure exactly where I was going with this tale other than looking for sympathy and oh yes that I believe this is all Apple's fault. They have the power to make anything they like but they choose to make indistinguishably different models of i-phones, i-pads and i-freakin everything instead of using their resources for the greater good of pet owners everywhere by making that dog collar from the movie UP so that dogs and owners can have honest two way conversations to alleviate the panic that ensues when you are unable to  adequately explain a situation to your furry friend. The i-speak dog collar could change the world forever but alas I believe my pleas may fall on deaf ears and instead Apple will spend their resources to make a half i-pad, half i-phone hybrid that nobody really knows what to do with but they all will buy because it looks so damn pretty when you lay them all out next to each other and upload the picture to Instagram.