PUPPY PROGRESS-- THANKS TO GRACE -- PROGRESS IS SIGNIFICANT.. THE 4 AILING PUPS ARE COMING ALONG AND SHOULD BE BACK TO FULL STREGNTH SHORTLY... THEY ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE DEMANDS... LIKE ONE FOUND OUT ABOUT CHICKEN LIVERS -- AND NOW WILL ONLY EAT THAT...-I FOUND SOME GROUND CHICKN WHICH ANOTHER WILL EAT... AND THEN THERE IS BAILEY WHO WILL EAT THE GROUND SIRLOIN FROM COSTCO..AND TURN HER HEAD AT ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE..BUT THEY ARE EATING AGAIN....EXCEPT
WE DO HAVE A NEW ONE... GRETCHEN-- JUST STARTING TO GET SICK-- NOT EATING RAISED TEMP 103.2 -- AND I EXPECT TO GO THRU THE SAME CYCLE AS THE REST... FLUIDS... ANTIBIOTICS...SO BE PREPARED-- ONLY OTHER HEALTH PROBLEM IS LINT-- FROM WEEKS AGO... STILL OCASSIONALLYHAS A STRANGE NOISE WHEN BREATHING... NOT ALWAYS.. BUT WE MAY DECIDE TO TAKE HER IN FOR XRAYS...OTHERWISE SHE SEEMS FINE. JUST NOISY... *****MY PHILOSOPHY ON MUCH OF THIS MEDICAL TESTING IS... WILL THE TEST MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN MY TREATMENT OF THE ANIMAL ( OR PERSON)??? BEING ABLE TO ATTACH A LATIN NAME TO SOME ALIMENT ABOUT WHICH YOU CAN DO NOTHING ANYWAY, CLASSIC CASE....MY FOOT-----, IT HAD BEEN SLIGHTLY SORE , BUT NOT SLOWING ME UP.. SO I IGNORED IT FOR A WHILE.. BUT THEN THERE WAS A QUESTION OF A METAL FRAGMENT IN MY FOOT WHICH WOULD BE A DISASTER IN AN MRI.... AN XRAY DISCOVERED NO FRAGMENT , BUT A BROKEN BONE-- THE DOCTORS WANTED TO PUT A BIG CAST ON MY FOOT- WHICH MEDICARE WOULD PAY FOR, BUT WOULD HAVE MEANT NO DRIVING AND OTHER INCONVENIENCES... SO I SAID "NO" --I WAS SUBJECT TO ALL KINDS OF VERBAL ABUSE FOR NOT LETTING THE DOCTOR PUT A CAST ON MY FOOT... WHICH I HAD BEEN WALKING ON FOR MONTHS WITHOUT ANY REAL PROBLEM..... *******MY FIRST RODEO...WAS NOT IN 2015, 2012 OR 2006.....OR 1988 FOR THAT MATTER....... I WAS JUST STARTING A NEW FOLDER ON THIS COMPUTER....FOR SAVING BUILDING INFORMATION AND WANDERED THRU SOME OF THE EXISTING "FOLDERS" . I RAN INTO A "SICK PUP" ADVICE --"HAVE YOU WASHED THE V PEN? IT LOOKS DIRTY IF THEY EAT IT THEY WILL GET SICK..."-- RIGHT .. IT IS DIRT-- HOW AM I TO WASH IT? OR STOP THEM FROM EATING IT.???
BOILING DOWN TO ...MICROMANAGMENT---- IF I KEPT THEM ALL IN CRATES- --- KEPT TRACK OF EVERYTHING THAT GOES IN OR OUT OF THEM AND WALKED AROIUND ON A LEASH- THIER PHYSICAL HEALTH COULD BE MADE TO BE OUTSTANDING....HOWEVER I PREFER TO GIVE THEM A LIFE OF RUNNING AS FREE AS POSSIBLE - WHICH HAS IT'S PERILS.. I CAN TRY AND REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF INJURY OR SICKNESS... BUT WASHING THE "V PEN" OR SCRUBBING PUPPY HILL IS NOT IN THE CARDS..
I GO BACK TO THE STATEMENT I MADE DAYS AGO ABOUT GEORGE BEING THE HAPPIEST DOG I KNOW OF... ANOTHER DOG LEADING A VERY HAPPY LIFE IS WANDA- I THINK YOU WOULD ALL AGREE FROM WANDERING AROUND A WALMART PARKING LOT TO A LIFE HERE AND AT JANINIE'S SHE BOUNCES AROUND A PRETTY HAPPY DOG... I RESENT IT WHEN SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND DECLARES ME A TERRIBLY DEFICIENT DOG OWNER JUST BECAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER HER NAME AND MEDICAL HISTORY... IN HER PREVIOUS EXISTENCE. .... OR OCCASIONLY WHO EVEN HAS HER AT THE MOMENT... SHE IS WARM ... FED... AND HAPPY-------- NOT CAGED,. TESTED FOR MEDICAL IMPERFECTIONS- WITH A FULL PAPER RECORD--- AND MISERABLE...
I TAUGHT MY VERY YOUNG KIDS TO RIDE BICYCLES LONG DISTANCES ( 5 MILES?) BEFORE THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS HELMETS...AS ADULTS THEY NOW RIDE 50-100 MILES HAPPILY ---( WITH A HELMET.).. THERE IS SOME PARALELL... ? A CALCULATED RISK? *************ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED LATELY IS THESE INTERNATIONAL "PASSPORTS" WHICH ACCOMPANY DOGS FROM EUROPE, THEY LIST THE VACINES AND ATTACH THE STICKERS FROM THE VIALS AS WE DO HERE.... THEY PUT THE DATES NEXT TO THE STICKERS.. WHAT I COULD NOT READ IN THE SMALL PRINT WAS THAT THE SECOND DATE WAS NOT THE SECOND STICKER, BUT TH DATE WHICH COVERAGE FROM THE VACINE EXPIRED AND NEED TO BE BOOSTERED.I KNOW IT NOW... AND SO DO ALL OF YOU!! EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD EXPERIENCES.*******EVEN THO WE CURRENTLY HAVE 2 NEGATIVE TESTS FOR PARVO. SOMEONE ASKED IF HAVING PARVO ELIMINATED A DOG FROM SERVICE DOGS.... HOW EASILY A RUMOR STARTS- IT IS FRIGHTENING... SYMON HAD A SHOULDER INJURY WHICH MADE HIM A FABULOUS FAILURE- THE FACT THAT HE HAD HAD PARVO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT... BUT THIS WAS ENOUGH FOR A RUMOR TO START..
SO THE DISCUSSION THEN BECAME IF THEY HAD PARVO ARE THEN NOT GOING TO GET IT AGAIN... LIKE MY MOTHER MAKING ME PLAY WITH A FAMILY WHICH HAD THE MEASLES-- AS ALL YOUNG GIRLS OF MY AGE WERE FORCED TO DO....IS A VIRUS A VIRUS THT IS A AUTOMATICLY ADNMINISTERED VACININATON.
I HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO CHECK WITH PEOPLE WHO'S OPINION DID OT COME OFF THE INTERNET... THERE MUST BE SCIENTIFIC ANSWER TO THE QUESTION...I DON'T YET KNOW IT.
************Today John and Jess had a busy day. This afternoon John was real tired so he decided to take a nap. He was in a deep sleep when apparently Jess had an urgent need to go out since she had "tankered up" with water not long before their nap. We don't know what she tried to wake up John, but whatever it was wasn't working so she tried something new - she climbed up on the bed and sat down on John's stomach. She was immediately successful and was quickly escorted outside, much to her relief! You told us that Dane's are thinkers. We believe you.
Paul
