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Ep. 6:Nixon Era Carpet Ghost
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Join Kel, Dr. G, and Dr. M as we spill the kibble on your submitted vet stories. In this episode we talk about the paranormal circus, rat shenanigans, and the docs share some post-ep notes. This episode is for entertainment purposes only, please talk to your vet before following any advice heard on this show.
Interested in sharing your own clinic stories? Email us at spillthekibble@gmail.com.
TW-ghosts, genitals
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Introduction and Concept
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You're listening to Spill the Kibble, the podcast where I read your submitted stories and have real veterinarians react to them.
Listener Participation Invitation
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If you are interested in sharing your clinic story, email us at spill at spill the kibble dot com.
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Please note that this show is not suitable for all listeners. Listener discretion is advised. And with that, let's go to the show.
Host Introductions and Banter
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Welcome to Spill the Kibble. I'm Kel.
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I'm Dr. G. And I'm Dr. M. And we're here to tell your clinic
Carnival and Paranormal Experiences
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stories. But first, how are you both doing?
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I'm doing so good because look, look what I got. It's a beaded popcorn purse. Oh, look at that. And what are you going to use that for?
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Every time I go to the movies, now I've got a theme first. Fair, fair. You got me there. Iowa. carnival. you know a Man, I want to go to a carnival. It's been a minute. We almost found one, but it's just like an indoor circus, and that's not the same.
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That's not the same. I would go to a carnival with you. There's like this paranormal circus. Okay, now. Now we're taking a jump. Let's go there. Oh, man.
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Paranormal Circus, it travels and it goes to like random mall parking lots near you. ah We signed up to go to it just not knowing at all what we were going to get ourselves into. It was a lot more sexual than you anticipated. And somebody crawled around like under the bleachers and would grab your legs.
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So there was more touching and more talk of touching than I expected for a mall parking lot. But it was fun. Sorry, there was more touching and more talk of touching in a mall parking lot than you'd expect. Yeah.
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Yeah. which is yeah You got to get it in a real America, dude. That is par for the course. All right, it was just the right amount of tuck touching and talk of touching for a mall park. right amount of tuck and touching.
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No, you're right. i It was an adventure to say the least. I also, I thought there was going to be like a full haunt haunted house portion and I got really scared, but it was just like a hallway as you entered the main circus. It was just with mist, just dry ice and a dream.
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A haunted foyer. yeah truly haunted for I still cackled like an idiot because that's what I do in haunted houses. and Yeah, it's an effect of missing them. Sometimes you gotta... She cackles and I just swear like a sailor.
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how i don't like being scared. i don't know I ever told you guys the last time that I went to a haunted house I finally figured out my coping strategy. Full on walking around with finger guns the entire haunted house and just aiming them.
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It's very clear as my hands. I'm not a threat, but it just makes me feel like I've got a lock on everyone and I am tracking them as they go. The safety's off. I'm ready. That's right.
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Now, the safety's very much on and I'm feeling safer by the minute holding my feet down my my finger guns. My go-to is if you get too scared and you want to exit the haunted house, you just have to say, i think I'm going to throw up right now. And like the the zombie will get you to an exit because they do not want to clean puke up the floor of the haunted house. They will get you to an exit, too sweet.
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Well, good for them. Okay, so if you're scared, i think I'm going to throw off No, i think I think I think is too far. You've got to be more affirmative. Like, I'm going to throw up right now. and then I'm going to f throw up right now.
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hu So start with finger guns. And if that fails you, it's threatened to Zombies eat brains. They don't clean puke. Somebody said it. saw that in break room once.
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Sorry to pull you from
Veterinary Story Insights
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the pod. You've got the docs here, cage side with some post-ep notes. That's the part where we circle back on replies and unanswered questions from previous episodes. Dr. M, you have the floor.
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Thank you so much. I am very pleased to share some insight from episode one. As a quick reminder, episode one featured a great story from Dr. K who told us all about the adventures poolside where a sock went missing um until it was tragically found where it shouldn't have been moments later.
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ah Just a little bit insight. We kind of talked a little bit during the episode about what exactly was going on. What was the vibe? What was the environment like? um She did inform us that this was no kiddie pool. This was a full in ground pool in the shape of a dog bone, which personally sounds like my like Barbie dream house resort. love, you know, my littlest pet shop of my dreams. I think I would have died for that as a child. So that's pretty perfect.
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So picture it. Enjoying your beautiful day next to a beautiful in-ground pool, the shape of a dog bone. um And then ah she did let us know that she did end up throwing the sock away. This was not a salvageable sock this time.
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And she happened to work the rest of the day with only one sock. So a true hero to Patriot. I think we can all agree to that. I got that sock clean. and i got that sockly I know you would have, but you know what? Everybody's on their own sock journey. yeah That's true. I have a big threshold for my feet. so that That really helps paint the picture. Thank you, Dr. K. We appreciate the feedback and the the the fill in the blanks.
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So the other feedback that we got was from Dr. J from Canada. ah He shared some stories in episode three, and he decided to give us a little bit of feedback about scrotal ablations. Dr. J said he just finished the very last bit of the Nooticles episode, and he will say that he probably does scrotal ablations on half. half of the dogs that he neuters. He loves them.
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Even without coterie, he says you can do it and maybe um add five minutes of surgical time just by pinching the scrotum where you want it, cutting it with Mets, Mets and bomb scissors. For those not in the know, that's a surgical scissor.
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And then going back and clamping the two or three things that that you need to tie off. um So this is, I feel like this is very classic. Whenever I read a surgical textbook, would be like, oh yeah, you just like cut, snip, pinch, and you're done.
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And then I would try to do it. It would be a hot bloody mess and it would be a complete nightmare for me. But he makes it seem very easy and encouraging. ah So that's some great feedback, Dr. J. Thank you so much for the tips and for making it sound easy.
Surgical Feedback
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Next up, we have a reply from episode three, NiceNuticalsDude. ah Mr. K from Chicago let me know that he does have himself a pair of human neuticles. He was comfortable enough to share with us that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer while studying abroad in Scotland in 2007.
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Told him on a Wednesday, cut it out on Friday, ultimately came home and had to get chemo anyway, but it was a prosthetic that was unavailable in the U.S. at the time still. They didn't have as many options, not even as many as a cat.
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I bet he's got great nuts now, so thanks, but Mr. And then we have our last feedback from episode five, Quilnilla Ice. Dr. R, who submitted the porcupine in a car in a bag of ice story, let us know that actually ah sub-Q fluids are going to go intrascapular.
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ah So near the shoulder, but very carefully ah with a winking face. I guess it's dangerous. So that's where they go. Thank you so much to our amazing story submitters for providing a little bit more insight into everything, answering some of our questions.
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ah We appreciate that
Call for Story Submissions
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so much. And if you submit submit a story and you want to be able to answer some of our hard-hitting questions or or help us out understanding a little bit more of what you guys are talking about, hit us up at spill at spillthekibble.com. That's S-P-I-L-L at spillthekibble.com.
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That is also the email to send stories. We'd love to hear some more stories. So if you have a story, if if it's a short one, if it's a long one, if it's a wackadoodle one, if it involves animals or vet med, we want to hear about it. So please, please, please ah send us your stories. We can't wait to listen to them.
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Thanks, guys.
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Well, I have to say, since we're talking paranormal, I do have a very, very interesting story that is along the same lines.
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and oh So, that being said, let's get into stories.
Haunted Veterinary Hospital
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The PTO's been requested. The PTO's been denied. And the team building pizza is on its way.
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We deserve this. It's time to spill the kibble. Yay, more stories. So the story starts. The first veterinary hospital I ever worked in was haunted. Yeah, right?
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And not in a cute, oh, maybe the lights flicker sometimes kind of way. No, this place was full on Scooby-Doo episode with anesthesia machines. Yeah.
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like That's amazing. The building used to be an old house, like really old. It had green carpet in the office, that kind of mossy avocado shade that screams someone installed this during Nixon's presidency and nobody's had the heart to change it.
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Carpet in the office? That's rough in a vet hospital, no? So gross. I've been part of it and there's no amount of vacuuming that's ever making me think there's not fleas in there.
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Old carpet? Like I can't even imagine the state of it because I don't think they make carpet that color anymore. And also, it doesn't matter where the carpet is in the clinic. Our dog will find it and will puke on it.
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Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Or he'll step and puke. Or the cat. stepped said, oh, no, I thought we don't step. Never mind.
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And so the story continues. The floor plan made zero sense. A bunch of narrow hallways leading to nowhere, like a Winchester mystery house designed by someone who really loved Formica.
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Now it's the Winchester wizard wizard. Mystery. The Winchester Wizard Mystery House. There's no wizard. Okay, sorry. the the Winchester Mystery House. though The woman who um inherited the gun company.
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Oh, okay. And made like the crazy house that had like rooms that went... like Hallways that went nowhere and... Oh, no. Four doors that just opened up into like the air for you to fall through. was complete hazard.
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Yeah. She was a little cuckoo pants. She was a little nervous about ghosts trapping her and demons and things. Two mystery doors already gets you to cuckoo, so.
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Yeah. I can look up how many mystery doors there are. already have one haunted place. Let's learn how to best one. Someone with a mental illness and too much money on her hands. Honestly, though, an iconic combination. Very eclectic. Yeah. yeah An iconic combination, the house still stands. Go visit out California. It's on my wish list.
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Continuing the story. The basement, still unfinished, which is fine if you're storing Christmas decorations. Yeah. Less fine if you're storing 40-pound bags of dog food and pretending the cold spots are just the AC.
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Ooh, that's so fair. food in the basement, that's like rat paradise, though. Right? Yeah. You keep that in the and the staff break room.
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Yeah. for all that no that's That's why you carpet upstairs so that the rats have a comfier place to hang out. Oh, it all makes sense. Yeah. So the rumor was that an old man had owned the house before it became a hospital and that he died there. Classic haunted house origin story. And supposedly he'd been a cigar smoker.
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I assume that's going to come in handy later when we talk about this. assume so too. Cause of death. Don't smoke kids. It's probably something to pay attention to.
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I just, I know a lot about ghost stories. Right. It's going to smell like cigars. Oh, probably. When they come by or something. I think so. Yeah. And the story goes on. Now, personally, I was thrilled.
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Everyone else was freaked out. I was the new kid on the block and fully ready to become the next episode of Ghost Hunters Vet Edition. I'd watch it.
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Pilot and finale all in once. Crazy. I want an experience. Like if I'm going to work through lunch and cry over three estimates a day, at least let a ghost show up and make things interesting.
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Yeah. there Bring the whimsy. But I didn't have any luck myself at first. The creepy stuff only ever happened to other people. That is just the way. You want it too bad. It's like, I want jury duty so bad, I never get it.
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I'm nosy.
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One day. Our groomer worked in the basement and swore she heard voices when she was alone. Whispering, movement, sometimes what sounded like someone walking up behind her.
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Already unfinished and then that's happening? No, thank you. Mm-hmm. Our only male employee said he saw a shadow figure through one of those frosted hallway windows and assumed it was me.
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He walked around to say hi and no one was there. mystery shadows. Which, fair, I do move fast, but not defy the laws of physics. Ha!
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The stories of men are like, oh, I'm sorry, you need me? Bye-bye. And cut the guy a break. I am fast. that Can never be found. Find someone else.
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Scooby-Doo dust clouds hanging in the air as you zoom away. Of course. Yeah. Then there were weird physical things. Bags of dog food mysteriously slashed open in the basement.
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Rats. I don't think a rat can do that. no Well, how big's the slash? thats This couldn't be the work of a rat. It must be a ghost. a So let me back up.
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Then there were weird physical things. Bags of food mysteriously slashed open in the basement like someone had taken a box cutter to them. Wires yanked out of equipment. Tools disappearing and showing up in strange places like we'd find a nail trimmer in the fridge.
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Rats can't open a fridge. It's probably a ghost. but so Now that one I don't have a rebuttal for. And the smell of cigars. There it is. um mu Rats don't smoke. In a clinic where the strongest smell would either be chlorhexidine or fear.
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Chlorhexidine or fear. Chlorhexidine. Yeah.
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What does fear smell like? Stronger than chlorhex, I'm pretty sure. smells like anal glands. Probably farts and anal glands. but but but I'd be writing notes and suddenly someone would go, do you smell that tobacco?
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And I'd just be like, well, maybe the ghost just finished his lunch break. Let him vibe. You gotta to let him vibe. That's rule number one about ghosts.
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Hmm. Even the cleaning crew was spooked. They'd come in at night and hear voices or see things move out of the corner of their eyes. so One guy said he felt someone breathing down his neck while he was mopping.
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Which, to be fair, is the appropriate reaction to anyone still mopping after midnight in a haunted basement. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Eventually, the rumors got so intense that someone suggested doing a seance to help Mr. Ghost find peace.
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And I was like, yes, please. This was finally my chance. We actually had a staff member who claimed she'd done ghost hunting before.
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She said she knew how to contact spirits and I was practically begging her to bring a Ouija board and a headlamp. A headlamp? I guess they do wear... I've played enough phasmophobia. I understand.
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Yeah, you don't want, i don't think we want open flames in this in this old hospital house. You're right, that that avocado carpet's gonna go up in flames. There's a lot of polyester.
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Probably. And so the story continues. But before we can make it happen, she got transferred to another clinic. Ghost whisperer gone, mystery unsolved.
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And here's the kicker. Not long after that, one of our other staff members quit. and the haunting stopped.
Resolution of Haunting Mystery
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Oh. Who was the staff member? the ghost her home?
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That was the killer. No more slash dog food, no more cold spots. Coincidence? Maybe. But if you ask me, she was our ghost all along because nothing says unresolved spirit energy like an underpaid vet tech with burnout.
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Whoa. Whoa, sabotage? That's some sinister behavior though, slashing like bags of food and pumping tobacco smoke into a clinic. Did anyone else's brain just do like a usual suspects kind of uno play through? Unsolved mystery?
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Can you spoil a 30 year old movie? can he spoil a thirty year old movie Probably for some people you can. Spoilers. Spoiler alert.
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You know, it's the movie where like there's a bunch of people that they think did a crime and then Kevin Spacey is in there looking inept. And then at the end he walks away and he's like, I was playing on the whole time. You know, it's kind of like The Sting. Yeah.
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The Sting or like the end of Scary Movie. Yeah. When David Arquette walks away. seems like this is a trope that happens a lot. It's a trope. It's a trope. ah But i'm I'm happy. It's playing out my head where there had been a little ghost doing all this stuff, or rats.
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ah But now I'm seeing the version where it's a disgruntled employee. Well, okay. Who the disgruntled employee was breathing on the neck of the man mopping? And they were even faster than the storyteller?
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Because there're they're no slouch, it sounds. This might be more Twilight Zone. ah could be It could be combo. It could be a little comic comic. They had an accomplice. A twin living in the walls.
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Yeah. Okay, the funniest part is none of the animals ever acted weird. You'd think dogs would bark at corners or cats would puff up and hiss at invisible things.
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Nope. Everyone joked that the ghost was probably a vet tech in the afterlife, still making sure the patients were monitored overnight. Well, that's a sweet thought. That is a sweet thought, but it's interesting.
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rather or it be like a loving ghost than like a dead old guy. yeah Anytime you see ghosts trying to exert their will on the waking world, they're usually not very... They're not very tactile.
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They're fumbly. It's really hard for them to utilize things. like but So maybe they were trying to feed the patients overnight because someone forgot to give them food. And instead of carefully, gently opening the bag,
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they grabbed a rat and slashed it with the rat's teeth.
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That must be Yeah. I feel like animals, what like I feel like in classic ghost stories, the animals are like a aware. They'll always be like, my dog like would never go in the basement or like blah, blah. And so the fact that the animals never reacted does kind of lean more towards like secret human ghost instead of actual ghost, you know? Yeah.
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Interesting. There's a second spooker. There's more. There's more. There's some more? Yeah. This is a long one. The only time something actually happened to me was when I tripped over nothing.
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Literally nothing. Just walking down the hall and suddenly my foot caught on air. I went flying. Nearly cracked my head on the sink at the end of all the way. my gosh. Didn't get hurt, but it felt personal.
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Like, okay, Mr. Ghost, I see you. You think you're funny. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. I mean, with that attitude, you deserve to be tripped.
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Also, like, easy to blame everything on the ghost of, like, things aren't going wrong. You're like the damn ghost. You trip over yourself. Guys, I'm not clumsy. It's a ghost.
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I didn't poop my pants. It was actually the ghost, you guys. A ghost shit my pants, okay? You know what? That's team building, though. Yeah. I mean, blaming everyone on the ghost, you're right. It probably is team bonding.
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If we had done the seance, I'm convinced it would have gone one of two ways. Option one. We try to summon the spirit of the old man and instead accidentally conjure the ghost of a Yorkie, still angry about his last anal gland expression. Whoa.
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Option two, the lights flicker and the only message we get is stop undercharging for dentals. That was the former owner of the practice. Potentially, yeah.
00:21:28
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That's so funny. To this day, I never saw or heard anything definitive. But I'll tell you this.
Reflections on Ghostly Origins
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Every time I smell cigar smoke in a clinic, I stop and say, hey, buddy, thanks for watching the overnight patience.
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Because maybe ghosts are just the ones who never got to clock out. Wow. Oh, okay, snap. ah Seriously. What a bow on that.
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I know. oh That's iconic. What, are they saying anytime they smell cigar smoke in any clinic? I don't know. Maybe they're still this clinic. Okay.
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I don't know. The first veterinary office I worked at. I don't know. I don't know how long they stayed there. That's fair. All right, you guys. We just spilled the kibble. The safety's on, and she's feeling safer than ever.
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Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you so much for listening. Please note that this podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Any medical advice heard on this show should be discussed with your animals care team.
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and a special thank you to our story submitters. Do you have a story you want to share? Email us at spill at spillthekibble.com and maybe we'll read your story.
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