A clean one for you.....
A woman brought a very limp parrot into a veterinary hospital. As she lay
her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the
bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said,
I'm so sorry, Polly has passed away." The distressed owner wailed, "Are
you sure? I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might
just be in a coma or something."
The vet rolled his eyes, shrugged, turned and left the room returning a few
moments later with a beautiful black Labrador. As the bird's owner looked on
in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the
examination table and sniffed the dead parrot from top to bottom. He then
looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet led the dog out but returned a few moments later with a cat. The cat
jumped up and also sniffed delicately at the ex-bird. The cat sat back,
shook its head, meowed and ran out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but like I said, your
parrot is most definitely, 100% certifiably dead."
He then turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill
which he handed to the woman.
The parrot's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "#150!" she cried. "#150
just to tell me my bird is dead?!"
The vet shrugged. "If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would only have
been #20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan... what did you expect?"