Please Don't Take Me There!

The poor dog is traumatized. Today she was booked in for a routine check up at the v.....e.....t. Only, we're not allowed to utter the dreaded word, otherwise she goes into a terminal decline, having sussed out the meaning. We are forced to resort to foreign tongues; the German, 'Tierarzt' seems to be doing the trick. 'Komm Sasha, wir gehen zum Tierarzt', and off she goes merrily wagging her tail. For how long? Who knows??