Trying to catch up here, I'll combine chatty's four (fickle, vinegar, elephant, night owl) with chick's four (wolf, viking, decor, modeling)...

What she took came into question
As she looked around
Her world had changed immensely
According to what she found

An elephant sat next to her
With vinegar to pickle
A tail, a nose, an ear, which one?
The big dude was so fickle

Sitting on the other side was
A night owl with a squirm
Every other "Whoo" was "Ouch"
As he watched the Pachyderm

A wolf paced back and forth
Nervous, that's for sure
He had a tail, a toe, and all
No loss could he endure

Laughing quietly to himself
On the sofa table
Was a Viking, feeling safe
Modeling his mansome cable

The room's decor had even changed
From nice to quite pathetic
She knew she'd learned the side effects
Of powerful anesthetics

"I'll just lay here and sleep it off,"
Her last thoughts were that night
A saner world she traveled to
The crazies out of sight


And place jabber's four back in the line-up:
better, improve, reform, restore