As I have mentioned before, our dog-management routine is detailed and complex.
Pills, supplements, food, administered at intervals.........
This evening I went down to give pumpkin, pills, and supplement.
I pull out the drawer with the phone book in it, to use as a prep shelf for the dog dishes. Wilbur's dish was on the "shelf", and I went to reach for Buzz's dish.
WTF?
Can you tell what is going on? Here is a mise-en-scene pic.
This is a chartreuse dog dish (an IKEA find) face down in the dog water (which is a pyrex bowl).
The dog dish's handy cut-outs facilitate a person picking up the dish. They are so big that it is not terribly uncommon for bits of kibble to get under the dish, and so big that it is not hard for a dog to nose under them and lift the dish.
The dish doesn't usually end up upside-down, and this is, for sure, the first time it's ever ended up in the water...........
I was mildly amused.
And since I had the camera right there, here's a glimpse of my world.
Pills, pills, and more pills, marked up to try to prevent giving the wrong thing to the wrong dog (or to the right dog at the wrong time). Supplements. Treats (milkbones and k/d). Fish oil ready for Buzz's breakfast tomorrow. Buzz's night-time enalapril on the pill splitter (which does a crappy job, hence the little bit broken off the morning "half" which was larger than this evening "half"). A pencil to mark Buzz's "pills, etc" chart.
The white pill by the fish oil capsule is Wilbur's Claritin. He's been taking Tavist, but the last time I had him in, I was told that the latest research shows no appreciable level of drug in a dog's system with Tavist, and we should try Claritin. (You can't find Tavist on the shelf any more, though you can ask a pharmacist to order it for you, which makes me wonder if it works for people, either.....)
Burt's congestion varies so much from day to day that it is very hard to separate out the effects of pills from the effects of weather/pressure/mold/dust/?????.
Sigh.
This pic doesn't even show the blister pack for the Claritin, nor the heartworm pills sitting out ready to give in a few days.........
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5 comments:
What a great dogmom you are! Few people would be so willing to take on such a regimen for their fur friends. Kudos to you!
Oops, I forgot, I was going to tell you my favorite Corgi story about our sweet Tootie (RIP)...right after we got her from the rescue, we were feeding her the prescribed weight-loss/green bean diet, which was working wonderfully. However, SHE was a little more particular about it and preferred some wet food mixed in, but on this particular night, I was out of it. So I gave her the green bean/dry food mixture and hoped for the best. I was in the next room when I heard a weird splash, splish, splash sound...walked around the corner and found Tootie scooping water out of her water dish with her nose and throwing it in the general direction of her dry food! Funniest thing I ever saw.
Thanks. It's a grind.....
That's a great story about Tootie working to get her kibble the way she liked it. What a smart girl! :-)
Casper gets a third of a human allegra when his eye rims get brigh flamin pink. I think the poor guy has a grass allergy.
They seem to work really well for him.
Thanks for the tip, Kim.
I will ask his doc.... This is our first pack of claritin. He seems different than with the tavist. His sinuses are wetter. More snorting on the claritin; more reverse sneezing on the tavist............. Though, as I said, his issues vary so much from day to day it is hard to decide what is the drugs and what is ... something else.
This has been going on for 2.5 years, almost.
His vet says that she treats three dogs with this issue, and all are beagles (well, Wilbur is more like a beagle than anything else).
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