McKenna And Spot In The Vaccine Line

TAHOE HERALD 

News Flash

Byline: Glenda Gorman

A reliable witness reports seeing a tall man with a giant Harlequin Great Dane in the vaccination line. This reporter suggests that the overwhelming likelihood is that their identities were local detective Owen McKenna and his 170-pound dog Spot. The witness said that Spot dutifully followed McKenna up to the booth where the shots were being administered. 

After McKenna received his vaccination, apparently Spot showed substantial disappointment at not being allowed to get his own shot. As McKenna pulled Spot away by the collar, Spot kept turning and pulling as if to go back. The witness said that Spot's brow was furrowed. 

Later, the witness allowed that it may not have been the vaccination that seemed enticing to the dog as much as the charming nurse who administered the shot to McKenna and then whispered something in Spot's ear, which made the dog wag with vigor.

Subsequently, another person saw McKenna and Spot over at an ice cream stand, where McKenna bought his dog a vanilla cone, perhaps as a consolation for not being able to spend more time in the vaccination booth. McKenna reportedly held the cone so his dog could lick the ice cream and enjoy it at a leisurely pace. But Spot opened his mouth - described by the onlooker as a yawning chasm reminiscent of the size and pink color of the canyons near Sedona, Arizona - took the entire cone in his mouth, and chomped down on it. McKenna tried to intervene, but Spot would have none of it. He quickly ate the treat, then shook his head as if he had an ice cream headache. 

When this reporter called McKenna and asked if the vaccination hurt, McKenna said he'd hadn't felt a thing and that the cost of his dog's ice cream was many times more painful.