We took Charlotte to the vet on Tuesday afternoon for her rabies shot. I met Brian there with Carter and Charlotte because I wasn't sure I could handle the two of them on my own. Charlotte has always been scared at the vet's office. Her hind legs shake and she often "cries" the entire time in the waiting room - she usually tries to hide under one of the benches. Once in the exam room, she'll shut down which at least makes it easy for the vet to exam her. And since she slipped out of her harness last year in the parking lot and got hit, she is even more scared of the parking lot. She actually pulls me to go into the building but still is really scared once in the office.
And since I can't rely on Carter to be chill, I didn't want to have to be trying to handle Charlotte and calm him down at the same time.
Carter cried the entire way to the vet and Charlotte whined along with him since he was crying. I think I hit every stoplight because it took almost 20 minutes to get there. It seemed even longer with the two of them making so much noise though.
We love our vet. She's really, really nice and loves Charlotte. We always hear her before she comes into the exam room once she realizes she's going to be seeing Charlotte telling everyone how much she loves her. She also doesn't charge us for a lot of stuff which is nice since Charlotte seems to go to the vet way too much.
We haven't been giving Charlotte the same amount of exercise that she used to get. I used to take her running all the time before I got pregnant. She's up to 36.6 lbs - she used to be around 33-34 lbs. It's time to start running her again!
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