The Tortoise Cat takes her Big One for a territorial stroll and bug hunt.
Tortoise Cat Vet Visit
Tortoise Cat: What a terrible, unfair trick the Big One played this morning! I was carefully sniffing fascinating odors, out back...Then suddenly...! Well you knew about it all along, didn't you, Chameleon?
Chameleon: It was inevitable, you know.
Tortoise Cat: How terrible it is, to be fooled...then poked (twice!) and clipped. But, Dr. Waters is OK...for a vet.
Chameleon: You could have seen it coming, Tortoise Cat. You are not that easily bamboozled. If you had been applying your sensitive nose indoors instead of sniffing for critter pee-mail on the side of the building, you would have known something was up. And Dr. Waters is much more than just OK, even as vets go.
Tortoise Cat: Yeah, but you are correct. The vet visit was inevitable. There is nowhere to hide from the Big One inside, and snow and ice all around outside, still.
Chameleon: Yet the ice and snow are melting, Tortoise Cat. Warm, sunny days are just around the corner.
Tortoise Cat: Oh? Tell me which of these neigbhorhood corners the warm days are lurking around, Chameleon! Why won't the Big One carry me over to a snow-free, sunny street? The Big One carried me down the block to the vet's van and back, after all.
Chameleon: Tortoise Cat, go take a nap!
