Brown Christmas?
By Three Crazy Dogs | December 24, 2006
It’s Christmas eve and what happen to the little snow we had on Thursday? They were practically all gone. Took the boys to the dog park and what’s left of the snow were mostly melted and turned to ice overnight. Hopefully we’ll get some tonight, according to the local forecasters. We are suppose to get some flurries. Ranger is still itching (he has skin allergies) because the weather has been so crazy. Usually by November he is done itching. Today was his last day for his predisone (steroids). The pred quits his itching. He is definitely a different dog when he is on the pred…much greedier, has a mind of his own and a little aggressive. I have to see how he will do tomorrow.
Brought Cooper to the vet yesterday for his rabies shot. The vet is happy to see him as he gained 2 pounds compared to the last time he was under (83lbs). He is eating now and back to his normal self. Once I see him begging for his carrots and apples, I know he is himself. Last month, I took him to the hiking trails and he ate something that made him threw up after we got back. He threw up again and again several times that day and didn’t want to eat.
He refused to eat his dry food and we saw him losing weight, so much that the ribs were showing.
It went on for a week and eventually DB took him to the vet. Did blood work for parasite, and results came back negative. The vet put him on a special diet on Presciption Diet can food. Cooper ate only once a day for about 3 days and on the fourth day he ate about a can plus, but he still didn’t want his carrots, apples and rawhides. Another week went by and he was better, at least he ate some carrots and a biscuit. The following week, we gave him his regular dry food and he chowed them down. Well, atta boy. We knew he was better. It was funny when he had no appetite to eat, he still had the energy to fetch frisbees. Weird. Now he is just a greedy pig as usual. The vet asked me are the boys getting anything special for Christmas. I told the vet everyday is Christmas for them! They are spoilt rotten by DB and I.
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