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What’s for dinner?

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I’m trying to decide what to make for dinner. It’s getting later and later and I still can’t decide. There’s a beautiful fillet of rainbow trout in the fridge that I should eat, but I just don’t feel like eating fish tonight. I should though because the fish will probably go bad soon if I don’t eat it.

I hate having to eat something just because it’s there .. but sometimes that’s what you have to do isn’t it! Oh well, if I don’t end up loving it my dog will get a little bit and she’ll love it.

My Lab is back to not eating very well again so anything I can do to encourage her to eat is worth doing! She’s been like this most of the summer. First it was a yeast infection in her bowel and now she’s gone into heat and I think that’s causing her to be a finicky eater again. Sigh … it seems whenever she gets sick she goes into heat. This will be her last heat let me tell ya!

Ok .. I’d better go gaze into the refrigerator and decide what we’re going to eat.

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My Lab and her barking problem

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I think my Labrador Retriever is finally starting to feel better. She hasn’t been feeling well for about two months and she’s had me worried.


She’s been on antibiotics for about two weeks and probiotics for a yeast infection in her bowel. She still has two or three weeks to go on the medications but it really seems like she’s feeling a lot better.

The only problem lately is that she’s been barking a lot. It’s like nervous barking. Little sounds seem to set her off and she seems more excitable than she used to be. Of course it probably doesn’t help that we’ve had someone staying at our house for the last little while and that might be one of the reasons why she’s barking so much and gets excited so much easier. I just wish she’d calm down!

Well I guess I can’t complain too much … at least she doesn’t do things like this dog! BTW this dog ate some lipstick apparently. I know it looks like a mess and being red it looks like something else .. but it’s just lipstick!

Midnight has chewed on some furniture – when she was a puppy … but for the most part she’s a fairly good dog. Well, with the exception of the barking thing lately. I have to figure out how to get her to stop that.

Does your dog worry you when it gets sick … and does your dog cause mischief?

My dog is STILL sick

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Our dog Midnight has been sick for the past couple of weeks, overall, she hasn’t been too bad but she’s just not herself. We took her to the vet about three weeks ago and she was on medicine and she was a lot better for about a week and then she started going slowly downhill again. Then I noticed today that she was getting quite a bit sicker again so we called the vet and he was able to fit us in today.

The veterinarian decided on a very conservative treatment just changing her diet a little bit, doing a stool culture, and every time she’s outside we’re supposed to put a basket like muzzle on her face so that she can’t eat anything while she’s walking around just in case she’s munching on things that might be making her sick. She does eat the grass when she’s outside but we don’t let her get at anything else. We watch her very carefully when she’s outside. I’m pretty sure she’s not eating anything other than grass and maybe a few weeds that are mixed up in it but who knows maybe it’s the grass that irritating her.

The vet also said it could just be the heat that is making her so ill. Since it’s been so hot in the last few weeks we’ve been taking her on shorter walks and we do have air conditioning so she has been exposed to very little heat, but the vet still think she could be feeling and reacting to it.

I’m certainly hoping this treatment works, or that she just snaps out of it. I hate being worried about my baby.

While we were waiting for our appointment. I was looking around the office and I noticed that there was some pamphlets marked donate real estate to charity I’ve certainly never heard of that. Have you? I mean, I know that you can probably donate real estate charity, but I didn’t know there was a whole organization dedicated to it. I guess that makes sense.

Anyway, I mostly just looked at the little kittens that were in the office and browsed through the animal magazines while we waited for the appointment. I could tell my dog wasn’t quite herself because she didn’t even bark at the kittens. That’s totally not like her, although I’m sure the kittens appreciated her not barking.

Here’s hoping that Midnight gets better soon! I’m sure our home renovations and visiting relatives don’t help either -all the excitement and all.

Long walks with my dog

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I’ve been walking my dog a lot more lately. We’ve been taking long long walks through the neighborhood. It’s interesting to see the different neighborhoods and areas that are within walking distance of my house.

The other day, Boxing Day (Dec 26th) one of the biggest shopping days we have here in Canada, I decided to take a walk up to what is called “The Danforth”. It’s not all that far from where I live – maybe a mile or so. My goal was a particular pet store. You see I thought I’d lost my dogs favorite bone over the holidays and I wanted to replace it as quickly as possible before she noticed. She plays with her bone pretty much all day so it would be tragic for it to be missing!

So … I got my dog ready and off we went for our walk. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon. I was pretty sure the store would be open …. but once we got to the store I could see it was closed. I couldn’t believe it. There was a sign on the door that it was only open that day from 10 to 3 pm! The biggest shopping day of the year and they were only open for five hours? Very strange.

Oh well – my dog and I got our exercise that day. Good thing too because there was a snow storm (the first in this area!) the next day and it was way too cold for a long walk. Oh and I found her bone the next day as well. We also saw some strange things on our route home. I know people travel long distances when they visit at Christmas but you don’t usually see trucks marked pool fence az on the street. Someone obviously had a visitor from Arizona for Christmas.

Hopefully you had a nice Christmas or holiday season. Mine was quite different from normal – not in a good way unfortunately …

My Dog has a Sore Toe

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My dog seems to have something wrong with one of her back toes. I’m not sure exactly what’s happened to it. It’s red and raw looking above the nail area on the outside of her paw. It sure doesn’t help that she keeps licking it. I’m sure that is making it more irritated and swollen looking.

I’ve been wondering if it’s the way she walks when my husband takes her on long walks that’s the problem. He walks he with a short leash and she tends to pull a lot and I’ve been wondering if by the end of the walk if she drags her foot or if her hips are acting up at all. I don’t usually go on these walks so I don’t get a chance to observe her gait but maybe the next time he takes her on an extra long walk I’ll try to go or at least get him to let me know when they are getting close to home so I can watch my dog walk and see if there is a problem with either using the short leash or with her walk.

In the mean time .. I have to figure out how to treat her toe. Too bad I can’t put one of these comfortable looking easy spirit shoes one her feet! She’d love that. LOL

I was thinking of getting some kling wrap and using that on her foot. I’d put some antibiotic ointment on the wound, then some gauze, and then after that I’d wrap her foot in the kling wrap. I think it would hold and that she wouldn’t be able to get it off to easily.

Any other ideas?

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