We have two Italian Greyhounds. I took one in yesterday to have his teeth cleaned at the animal hospital. I don’t know who was more traumatized – the dog or me.

Fazio is not used to riding in the car loose. We usually put him in his crate while in motion so this time he was rubbernecking at everything outside of the car. “Where are we going?” “Are we going for a joy ride?” “Am I going to like where we’re going?” he seemed to be saying.

I was afraid he would step on the gear selector lever (aka the PRiNDeL) so I wanted him to sit down. ”Is it possible to put a dog in a seat belt?” I thought. I would inch toward the traffic light, applying the brakes – and he would lunge forward almost to the floor of the passenger side seat. He would lie down for a second or two, then stand up and look around again. I wound up driving the rest of the way petting him with one hand and driving with the other. I’m sure my father was rolling over in his grave. He would barely allow you to talk and drive simultaneously, let alone take one hand off the wheel.

While I thought applying the brakes and assuring Faz that everything was all right would get him to settle in for the 10 minute ride to the vet, it didn’t. I think it stressed him out more than anything else. So now he’s all wound up when we park the car. This can’t be good.

Landscapers are swarming all over the place outside the hospital. There are weed whackers whirring and mowers murmuring and we’re trying to dodge them as we head toward the building. Fazio is now serpentining all over the place, wrapping his leash around my legs. And when we get to the door he doesn’t want to go inside.

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I leave the animal hospital wondering why I care so much about animals these days. I never used to.

I stopped to vote on the way back home. Then, upon arriving at home, I now see our other dog with a real long face. He looks so lonely. “Why did you take my brother away? What did you do with him?” My wife insists that I keep an eye on him.

How am I going to get anything done, I wonder, with one dog on my conscience and having to hold the other one’s paw all day long? I decide the second one will be fine. He’ll sniff him when he returns and know where he’s been. Then he’ll kind of smirk as if to say “Better you than me. I’m never going back to that place. They prod you and poke you and tell you everything is fine, but it’s ridiculous.”

I get Fazio back late in the day. I’m not sure who is more relieved, him or me. He doesn’t even flash his now pearly white teeth. But the wag of the tail is enough.