now i have a typical dilemma-- somethign is wrong with sizzle.... allow me to give you all the symptoms i have at least identified....
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Thursday morning... Overnight Heather managed to get 3 pieces of cheese in her so I sat up early and we dripped in half a bag of fluids making the usual half a baseball size bump and let her sleep for awhile----- afterwhich she did eat a can of dog food which I fed to her with a spoon so I could also sneak in the anti inflammatory pill in one of those spoonfuls and I didn't have to try shoving it down her throat------- a quick second spoonful as a chaser and it went down with no problem and she ate a whole can of dog food I don't know how long the pain medication she was given iby injection would last but I took her out early afternoon and physically I could not see a thing wrong with her other than the fact she was nearly glued to my leg she's very worried about something that's for sure and all I can come up with is perhaps Gemini knocked her flat and she somehow has stretched or strained something and is afraid if he bumps into her again it will make something hurt and make her Yelp -----that's about all I can put together ..as far as her neck I say absolutely no restriction in her movement she whipped her head sideways and very nearly decided to fence fight with Paula -- and very shortly after that whipped her head the other direction to scratch her rear end .. also at some point she shook her head vigorously which I don't think she would have done with a neck problem .. but she ran right next to my golf cart and really didn't want to go anywhere else except maybe into the golf cart and there really isn't room . at one point I asked Haley to bring down my car and see if she wanted to get in the back of my car and no she didn't unless I was going to get in .I tried to get her to lie down and stay on a mat as I dealt with both the dead donkey truck and the arrival of eight pallets of food which I had to unload myself with the tractor because I haven't yet had anybody else learn to do that .. she did not stay
mat perfectly but would wander around at a walk in her normal places around the yard always with one eye on me on the tractor .
my question is how long did that painkiller work and is that what was keeping her moving so well because all I had put in her was the anti inflammatory up to that point ..
at about 2:00 o'clock we gave her the other ½ bag of fluids ----- the arrival of Chinese food with chicken wings enable me to pull off joint area of the wing so I could put 1 pain pill in each of the two chicken wings skin .. Afterwhich she ate more cheese another can of food and what was going to be the rest of my store bought barbecued chicken white meat --- somewhere along ehre she chewed up a big milk bone without difficulty... so her jaws were working well. and lifted her head withourf difficulty
She slept all night ---- those pain pills may now be affecting her at 5:00 o'clock this morning ---- she went out without difficulty—but when I called her to come in, again she is asking. “ why can’t I just get in the car.?
I have been keeping the rest of the dogs away from her.. to prove to her, I can do that.... just in case that is the reason for all this..
But I don’t know.
I will admit to one other detail.. I have seen..... to show me how a vet would test for wobblers, the vet ( not george) lifted the chin of a perfectly healthy dane...... then put forward pressure on the back of the dog’s head til it yelped...and he said yes the dog had wobblers.. and 20 minutes later it certainly did... consequently ... I am the neurontic dog owner who will not let anyone do that again if I can possibley stop it... which is why I did not want to have siz seen by a neurologist in Woburn because I coul d not be standing with her...
She has got to have many more symptoms before I will let any neurologist near her—and there would have to be a clear picture of what difference any “study” would make.
There is one other detail in trying to analyze sizzle somewhere along in the past daily doggies I have described one of the tests I have for any puppy for possible service dog and that is after the dog has had some dinner ---- and is not starving to death---put down a dish of food and then just very quietly ask the dog to move his rear end over a stepper 2 with a sort of get out of the way type thing and you'll get three responses one is to just take 2 steps out of the way which is a very nice response the second response could be that they jump and get out of the way like they were shot and the third response is the plant their feet and stiffened the rest of them making them nearly impossible to move I'm sorry to say the sizzle falls in that last group she does not like anybody moving her body around she will do it very nicely herself and I know this from trying to get her off my half the bed it just is nearly impossible so if when she was at Woburn they thought she was stiffening because of pain somewhere it could be except it also is her personality not to move or certainly not to let anybody else's muscles move her
so those are all the details so that's the puzzle for the day
what's the matter with sizzle ????..
