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“I told them I was going to go over their biology homework, “ responded Enrique.
Gerardo Martinez brought in Chacho, his fifty or so pound swimming pig for her yearly checkup.
“I haven’t signed in yet,” he said.
“I’ll get it ---in a minute,” shouts Ramon, turning toward Giovanni, “Bring the mop,” seeing
Torro regurgitate the moldy avocado he ate earlier.
The Gonzalez family of five, a red-haired mom, Maria, and dad, Alfredo, suffering from pink
eye, anxiously hold Paco, the pony, who came in for some blood work for his digestive problems.
Micaela, Blanca, Alicia, his teenage girls sit on the cozy blue stripped couches and watch Beverly Hills
Chihuahua, notice the smell and try to ignore it.
Paco leans over to her puppy and starts sniffing her – causing her to shake. Elena moves out of
sniffing distance -- to the other side of the room while her grandmother signs in, counting the minutes
until she can see the vet.
“Have you ever been here before?” asked Ramon.
“No. Our dog – she is very, very sick.”
“What do you think is wrong with her?
Elena scurries over to the window and holds up her puppy. Elena hurling rays of despair and
urgency from her eyes.
Consuelo gasps.
“Someone did this to her. I found her – with wire around her mouth.”
The gauze dangling from one side, revealing the deep cut into her face; some blood dripping onto
the counter.
Ramon held out arms to the puppy. He had seen many emergencies but the brutality of this
puppy brought tears to his eyes.
“She is emergency--- code blue. Go into Exam Room 3.”
Elena ran after Ramon, down the hall of Dr. Julio’s veterinary clinic.