Okay so this happens a lot more than I realized.

I was left at home due to not being needed to care for my great grandmother and got a major headache. So I dozed off in my favorite recliner only to have the phone ring and scare the the bejeezles out of me...

When I pick up thinking it's my grandparents or something, I'm greeted by this guy from California, the other side of the country for me, asking about medical records of his cats. I sort of freaked out and defaulted to what I was taught... I just sort of hung up on him. I felt horrible about it later.

Then he kept calling back and I was forced to explain he was calling a residential number. He seemed startled and confused as he finally hung up after a bit of arguing. It didn't help my headache much...

When my dad got home I told him what happened and he explained this actually happens to us a lot.

Apparently our number was either used by the vet hospital in town or is VERY close He probably either adopted his cats out of state or got them from a breeder etc. and needed their medical records for his own vet. Dad went on to say we even had a poor old lady leave a message about how her "Fifi" was really sick and needed an appointment right away.

I sort of wanted to call the guy back and explain what I knew. Ha ha. I felt bad about it since then.