He’s A Scuffy-Looking Nerf-Herder
VET | WORKING | APRIL 20, 2017
(I work as a kennel assistant at an animal hospital. On this particular day, a stray kitten had been brought in for a health assessment. Vet
#1 and one of the vet techs are examining the kitten while I stand by in case they need me to fetch anything else, since it’s been a slow day. Vet
#2 enters the treatment room.)
Kitten: *squeaks indignantly*
Vet
#1 : “Oh, you’re just so cute!”
Vet
#2 : “Did you just call that thing ‘cute’?”
Vet
#1 : “He’s very cute!”
Vet Tech: “Eh, he’s a little scruffy-looking.”
Me: “He looks like somebody used him to scrub a toilet.”
Vet
#2 : “Exactly! That’s exactly what he looks like!”
Vet
#1 : *leans in and stage-whispers to kitten* “Don’t worry, I think you’re cute.”
(We gave the kitten some food, a flea pill, and a clean bill of health; the person who found the kitten came back later that day, having decided to keep him.)