Today is....

[MorganGrayson]

Beltane
May Day
Monday, May 1st

...and probably a lot of other things.

It is also the day my little Dingo is at the vet's to be spayed.

She hasn't had the surgery yet. The young lady that answered the phone was very, very kind to me.

I'm not a nutjob who's panicking over a pretty standard surgery that is necessary for the dog's health and longevity.

She was at the vet's last week due to possible "pyo-something-or-other" that is a massive infection that could have killed her. She passed the blood tests; she's been on antibiotics since "just to be sure" and things will most likely turn out just fine.

It's not a good day for "most likely," though.

[Janell]

It's Happy May Day!

[Evil Chris]

Who actually celebrates "May Day" this side of the Atlantic anyway?
I don't even know what it is!

When I lived it Germany, the 1st of May was yet another excuse for the local Germans to throw a fest, and drink a lot of beer and schnaps (which was fine by me).

Oh and there was a tall pole involved. Usually mounted in the town center pedestrian zone. Decorated with ribbons and stuff.

[Nickatilynx]

Morris dancers dancing round them in England.

Some of the gayest shit you'll ever see.*

















*not that there is anything wrong with that

[Deuce]

so whats Mayday again? sounds like your about to crash or somethings wrong with your plane.

[Bhelliom]

Ok all you ignorant pricks that got stuck on the may day thing.... I'll be the gentleman...

Morgan I hope your dog is ok. I hate having sick animals, Makes you feel like you've done something wrong.

[Deuce]

May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May generally.) Today, May Day is best known as an international holiday celebrating labor and workers, and is often associated with socialism and Communism. May Day is an official government labor holiday in many countries. As an international celebration of labor, May Day is an especially important holiday in Communist countries such as the People's Republic of China.

from the wiki

[MorganGrayson]

Originally posted by Bhelliom
Ok all you ignorant pricks that got stuck on the may day thing.... I'll be the gentleman...

Morgan I hope your dog is ok. I hate having sick animals, Makes you feel like you've done something wrong.

Thank you, my love.

Dingo is indeed fine. She was totally loopy from the anesthetic when she came home. Mattie the "mommy cat" went promptly out of her mind and dove under Dingo to examine the stitches. She had to be physically restrained from holding the dog down and licking her. Mattie has since calmed down - after giving us suitably dirty looks for letting - to her - person's unknown cut up the dog. Dogs instinctively know to take it easy, and Dingo has been doing so. She's curled up beside me now, on the floor on her blanket, which is where she spends the time while I'm working.

If you ever have to sneak a pain pill to a dog, I highly recommend Snausages.

Again, thank you, my darling. That meant a lot to me.

Isn't it hump day?

[StaceyJo]

May Day, first day of May. Its celebration probably originated in the spring fertility festivals of India and Egypt. The festival of the Roman goddess of spring, Flora, was celebrated from Apr. 28 to May 3. In medieval England the chief feature of the celebration of May Day was the Maypole; this was decorated with flowers and streamers, the loose ends of which were held by dancers, who encircled the pole, weaving intricate patterns as they passed each other in the dance. These dances are still performed for exhibition purposes in England and the United States. The Second Socialist International in 1889 designated May Day as the holiday for labor, and since that time it has been the occasion for demonstrations, parades, and speeches among socialists and communists.

[oceania]

here is another...

In most Teutonic countries it is known as Walpurgisnacht; in Anglicised lands it's called Beltane or May Day; and in the Czech Republic it goes by the name of Carodejnice.
Most European countries celebrate the event on the eve of 30 April and continue into the wee hours of 1 May. Different countries may have different names for it but all of them celebrate the coming of spring, the greening of the land, the purging of evil forces and the youthful quickening of spring love.
Originally, the celebrations were held on a gravemound or mountain top; pagan elements included the chanting of magical spells to protect animals, the banning of all trolls from houses, processions around the village with decorated birch trees or conifers (the 'May Tree'), and of course the lighting of fires - bonfires, candles, torches - anything, in fact, that lightened the gloom and dispelled the memory of long, hard, dark winters. In the Czech republic, Carodejnice also meant it was time for peasants to clean up their properties and retire to the highest mountain top to ward off witches by the burning of old brooms - literally a spring clean.

[oceania]

gald your little dingo is better
i cried when i had my puppy spayed...
cried all day
felt so silly...
but couldnt stop

[MorganGrayson]

Originally posted by oceania
gald your little dingo is better
i cried when i had my puppy spayed...
cried all day
felt so silly...
but couldnt stop

*hugs*
I know how you feel. I, too, felt silly. All my pets have been spayed or neutered. It isn't like this is the first time I've been through this. I guess timing is everything, though, and I've been through way too much change lately. ("Good change" is just as disruptive, I've discovered.)

Luckily, I've got a good vet in all ways. They're heavily into compassion as well as technical skills. When I called to remind them (again) that Dingo has a collapsing trachea and I was very worried about it happening during surgery, the girl chuckled and told me my husband had one foot over the threshold and announced "I have been ordered to remind you..." (They told him he should get a goodie when he got home. ) The girl wrote it down for the *third* time. She told me "they can't possibly miss it, it's written down THREE times here!" This is also the first vet I've had that provided pain pills for the post surgical pain, just like humans get.

Dingo has a tiny, neatly sewn incision. She's recuperating well. Back to eating goodies, biscuits, chewies - everything has to have it's own name - and even tried to play "smackdown" with her buddy Samba, until my husband broke it up. The cats really missed her. They do NOT think pets suddenly disappearing is a good thing at all.