Disclaimer: If you're easily grossed out, and believe raising dogs is all unicorns and sparkles, don't read further.
Ah, the lovely life (and oh so totally glam) life I lead with my beautiful pets I truly adore. I have been dealing with a dog who's sick. Sick is a lose term because she is, but she isn't. Kendra has developed these periods of time where food and her are not friends. It appears once a year, and lasts about a week before everything becomes normal once more.
In that time, she'll throw up her food (yay for me, it's mostly at night, and she doesn't choose to leave my side, double yay!) and lose weight. I give her Nutri Cal for added vitamins until her appetite returns so her weight doesn't drop too much, and to help her, though she's always her normal goobery self during this time. This is the third time she's going through this, which is why it's not a huge concern for me/us.
It's funny. If this was my first dog, or even second/third, I may worry over it more than I do. I've had hundreds of dogs pass through my life, cats, ferrets, birds, rabbits, bunnies, fish, and more. I'm like that mom who has the second child and by that time has learned: Not much is worthy of panic, and I know all these "tips" to deal with the issues that crop up, and how to deal with the majority of ailments. Even strays pop in here a lot.
During this period, Kendra, becomes extremely picky about her food, so we usually give her a mixture of meat and dry kibble. I don't usually like giving wet food without dry, but for the past few days, she upped her pickiness, and so I let her have her way.
Why don't I like to give out the dry without mixing? The lovely "loose stools" that develop. Her phase of throwing up at night has passed, but because she ate dry food, her stools are loose. Too rich for her stomach, and her stomach isn't used to eating that sort of food.
I spent the morning cleaning and disinfecting my room, including the floor, but couldn't figure out why it still smelled (too cold out to open the windows, the parakeets would get sick).
Then . . . I came across this.
This is the glamorous world of dogs. This is the side of my wooded CD case that I built and painted white. That is exactly what it seems like. Somehow, she had managed to projectile potty and got it all over the CD case. Gag. haha Another item to be cleaned and disinfected.
So that's why my room still smells! Ew.
This is why I rarely mention time specifics for books, unless I am 100% certain of the time, which is a rare ability. I say "if nothing happens." This is my "something happened" moment.
Dogs.
Gotta love them.
Ah, the lovely life (and oh so totally glam) life I lead with my beautiful pets I truly adore. I have been dealing with a dog who's sick. Sick is a lose term because she is, but she isn't. Kendra has developed these periods of time where food and her are not friends. It appears once a year, and lasts about a week before everything becomes normal once more.
In that time, she'll throw up her food (yay for me, it's mostly at night, and she doesn't choose to leave my side, double yay!) and lose weight. I give her Nutri Cal for added vitamins until her appetite returns so her weight doesn't drop too much, and to help her, though she's always her normal goobery self during this time. This is the third time she's going through this, which is why it's not a huge concern for me/us.
It's funny. If this was my first dog, or even second/third, I may worry over it more than I do. I've had hundreds of dogs pass through my life, cats, ferrets, birds, rabbits, bunnies, fish, and more. I'm like that mom who has the second child and by that time has learned: Not much is worthy of panic, and I know all these "tips" to deal with the issues that crop up, and how to deal with the majority of ailments. Even strays pop in here a lot.
During this period, Kendra, becomes extremely picky about her food, so we usually give her a mixture of meat and dry kibble. I don't usually like giving wet food without dry, but for the past few days, she upped her pickiness, and so I let her have her way.
Why don't I like to give out the dry without mixing? The lovely "loose stools" that develop. Her phase of throwing up at night has passed, but because she ate dry food, her stools are loose. Too rich for her stomach, and her stomach isn't used to eating that sort of food.
I spent the morning cleaning and disinfecting my room, including the floor, but couldn't figure out why it still smelled (too cold out to open the windows, the parakeets would get sick).
Then . . . I came across this.
This is the glamorous world of dogs. This is the side of my wooded CD case that I built and painted white. That is exactly what it seems like. Somehow, she had managed to projectile potty and got it all over the CD case. Gag. haha Another item to be cleaned and disinfected.
So that's why my room still smells! Ew.
This is why I rarely mention time specifics for books, unless I am 100% certain of the time, which is a rare ability. I say "if nothing happens." This is my "something happened" moment.
Dogs.
Gotta love them.
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