Mouse and Alki
I went to bed early, and by the time Dave came to bed there was no room left for him 😦 Sorry!
(Jack, Mighty, and Barclay)
Month: March 2010
Eskimo Playdate!
Today we had a doggie playdate! Sherry is in our dog training/activities club and she has two young eskimos – Sake and Sitka. Her’s are minis, like Alki. We’ve met at the dog park a couple times and they all get on great with Barclay, so I invited her over to the house so Jack could play too.
Run for your life, Jack! It’s a pack of eskimos!
I love Jack’s expression in this one!
They all know where the treats are!
They are all shamelessly working Sherry for treats! Even my two!
Thanks to Dave for thinking to grab the camera and get some pictures! I was busy watching dogs 🙂 They played until they were so wore out they were just laying around rolling on each other. Then Sherry took hers home, and Barclay sat in the front window and pined for them for a bit – he loves his new friends! But they left just in time, it started pouring rain about ten minutes after they left. Then everyone (me included – ha ha) napped away the rest of the afternoon.
Alki on the mend
Alki is doing fine, spunky and eating well again. And napping a lot, but who can blame her, it’s been a busy week for a little dog! She has been coughing a bit, so I’ll talk to the vet on Monday. We felt ok to leave her alone all evening and ran down to the beach to visit with our friends we were supposed to be camping with this weekend, if we hadn’t stayed home with the pup!
Shellless Egg
One of the girls laid a shellless egg! It is just a membrane, no shell. What a weird thing to hold. It’s all squishy! I don’t think it’s anything to worry about though, I’ve read that hens occasionally lay one, especially if they are just starting laying, and I have a couple young hens that certainly could be just getting started. Plus it was laid in a nest they don’t usually use, so it must have been one of the girls still figuring out how it’s done.
The dogs still enjoyed it!
Alki is home again
I’m still a bit nervous, but Alki is pretty relaxed – because she’s home from the doggie hospital!
I’m so happy to be home – FEED ME!
I’m feeding her small amounts hoping her stomach stays on the mend. She’s hungry, and giving me sad eyes, so I guess that’s a good sign. Long as she keeps at it.
While at the hospital they did an ultrasound and confirmed there was a large mass around her bladder, which is the cancer. We pretty much knew it was back already. That old bastard is going to get her one way or the other. Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, and our dedicated veterinarians, she has cheated death for nearly three years since her diagnosis. Even the oncologist says it’s an incredible result. Not much to do now but treat any symptoms as they occur, and give her lots of love.
Alki in the hospital, Barclay eats an egg
Last week we tried a new antibiotic on Alki, because the vet thinks she has a kidney infection. Unfortunately it upset her stomach and she became reluctant to eat. Then the vet gave us some medicine to help her stomach, and some anti-nausea meds on Saturday, and she ate fine. But Sunday she threw up her food, and Sunday night she woke me up at 4AM throwing up. I tried to give her the medicine and a little bread to settle her stomach but she threw that up too. So I called the vet first thing in the morning and she said to bring her right in. She put her on IV fluids and took a urine sample to send to the lab to determine exactly which antibiotic she needs, and gave her a shot to settle her stomach. When we visited in the afternoon the vet said Alki had settled right down in her kennel and was resting. They had just taken her for a walk to go potty, and we could visit her if we wanted, but I didn’t want her to get all stirred up again. She said it was a good thing she was deaf because none of the noises around the busy vet hospital were bothering her, and although she had been nervous and shaking terribly when we brought her in, she seemed to be relaxing and just hanging out now. Tomorrow the vet wants me to bring her some of her favorite food and if she can eat it and keep it down she can come home tomorrow.
It’s so weird having her gone. It’s quieter around the house, and a bit more relaxing not worrying about her all the time, but I keep looking for her. I know this is what it will be like when she’s gone. It will still take some getting used to even though we’ve had almost three years to get used to the idea. But hopefully this crisis will pass and she’ll be home tomorrow and recovering from this little setback.
Meanwhile, out in the yard, I played with Barclay and gave him an egg to eat.
Jack didn’t get an egg, but he was curious about it.
Instead I called him over and practiced some obedience while Barclay was busy with the egg.
So he got some jerky, which was just as good to him, he can’t figure out what to do with eggs anyway.
Steff Does Stuff! 