More Dog Stuff
because people (you know who you are) have been bugging me for more posts...
This is the best dog toy ever.
It also comes in little dog sizes, but little dogs seem to also like the big one. Although it knocks them over when it bounces into them.
Also--and this cannot be repeated too many times--when I go out for a walk with my dog I do not say to myself--man, I hope people will bring their also-leashed dog up to ostensibly 'meet' my dog, but really so that they can get inextricably tangled together to the point where either eventually one dog gets hurt or there is a big fight. Also, the proper response when I say, 'no, our dogs cannot meet,' is not--'why, is your dog mean?' (And if you have a little dog, why on earth would you want a big strange dog anywhere near them? People, you have brains for a reason.)
I took Billie in to the vet school last week to get blood levels done and (I hope) a liver test done--since phenobarbital can affect the liver over time. I say I hope about the liver test because although I told them twice that that's why I wanted to come in and I fasted Billie for 12 hours (which they knew I was going to do and knew I had done when I went in) they didn't charge me for the liver test. So, we may have to go back again in a little while. They are so busy out there that sometimes I'm pretty sure that I am just not saying the right secret code words.
Billie also went in and got her regular shots from her regular vet. He reminds me that although she is still occasionally having mild seizures, I am very lucky that they are mostly under control. He also said that the noise sensitivity that she started exhibiting about a year before the seizures started is probably seizure related (not loud noises per se, but repetitive loud bass noises).
John Henry goes in for his third followup cancer check this week. It's been almost fourteen months since he broke his leg. He is eleven and a half. He looks very good and his quality of life has been really good for the last 10 or 11 months at least. I am very pleased.
Pictures some time this week.