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Enfilade - 24 Sep 2004 01:32 GMT

How come everyone's vet is named Ted?

My four go to the Atlantic Cat Hospital, a vet hospital specializing
in felines only.

--Enfilade

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Lois Reay - 24 Sep 2004 01:55 GMT

TED = The Evil Doctor.

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> How come everyone's vet is named Ted?
>
> My four go to the Atlantic Cat Hospital, a vet hospital specializing
> in felines only.
>
> --Enfilade

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Steve Touchstone - 24 Sep 2004 06:27 GMT

>How come everyone's vet is named Ted?
>
>My four go to the Atlantic Cat Hospital, a vet hospital specializing
>in felines only.

TED stands for the evil doctor, which makes sense from a cat's
viewpoint when someone is poking, prodding or stabbing with sharp
things, etc. Just sort of tongue in cheek, since many of us are
blessed with good cand caring vets.

It's been a while since anyone has mentioned it, but there is a FAQ
for the group which lists some of the acronyms - not all of course
since there always more popping up. You can find it at
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/yowie/catfaq.htm

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Dan and Nancy Mahoney - 24 Sep 2004 23:23 GMT

> How come everyone's vet is named Ted?
>
> My four go to the Atlantic Cat Hospital, a vet hospital specializing
> in felines only.
>
> --Enfilade

TED is an acronym for The Evil Doctor - a nickname reflecting the
kittie's perspective.

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Howard Berkowitz - 25 Sep 2004 13:05 GMT

> > How come everyone's vet is named Ted?
> >
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> TED is an acronym for The Evil Doctor - a nickname reflecting the
> kittie's perspective.

Oh, I can think of some of my times with the pediatrician. On one
memorable occasion, my mother didn't say where we were going, but I
needed to be peeled off, successively, his maibox, lawn lamppost, outer
door, inner door, chair, exam room door, etc.

Eventually, the inappropriately named Dr. Small thundered "WILL YOU STOP
STRUGGLING? I gave you the shot 3 minutes ago."

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Tanada - 25 Sep 2004 23:40 GMT

> Oh, I can think of some of my times with the pediatrician. On one
> memorable occasion, my mother didn't say where we were going, but I
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> Eventually, the inappropriately named Dr. Small thundered "WILL YOU STOP
> STRUGGLING? I gave you the shot 3 minutes ago."

Mandy called the hospital at Ft Campbell, "The Owie House." They
insisted on giving her four shots in one day, one time. She has hated
doctors ever since

Pam S.

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Steve Touchstone - 26 Sep 2004 00:33 GMT

>Mandy called the hospital at Ft Campbell, "The Owie House." They
>insisted on giving her four shots in one day, one time. She has hated
>doctors ever since

That hospital was my first permanent duty station, a long, long, LONG
time ago (back in '75). Used to deliver the pharmaceuticals to the
various clinics on an electric cart through what seemed like miles of
corridors.

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Tanada - 26 Sep 2004 01:31 GMT

>>Mandy called the hospital at Ft Campbell, "The Owie House." They
>>insisted on giving her four shots in one day, one time. She has hated
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> various clinics on an electric cart through what seemed like miles of
> corridors.

We were at the new hospital, the old one, which set some sort of record
for it's long corridors has been turned into facilities for about a
dozen different departments. The new hospital has four floors and a ton
of clinics and is still (or was when we were there) hopelessly
inefficient.

Pam S.

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Enfilade - 26 Sep 2004 19:30 GMT

Thanks for the clarification and the link to the FAQ!

Oddly enough, three of my cats LOVE the vet. Tyche purrs so much the
vets cannot take her heartbeat.

Kumani was once seriously ill with flu and that taught her vet-hate,
to get a thermometer up her butt several times a day for half a week.

--Fil

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