So several years ago my beloved childhood cocker spaniel, Sally, died and I was anxious to get a new dog. About a month later Alan finally agreed to getting a new dog. I adopted Abby from the Cocker Spaniel Rescue Group. She was said to be about 6 years old and she was fairly blind when we adopted her. However, when I took her to the vet, they said she was more like 8-10 years old. Well, that was in 2002, so no telling how old our dog really is, but she's old anyway.
Abby over they years has cost us loads of money in vet bills due to her cataracts and glacoma. Over the past several months she's been sick as well. She's had diarrhea that was hard to treat, urinary tract infections, and her yearly check up two weeks ago. Well, now she's developed kennel cough, and she doesn't even get kenneled. The vet seemed to think she got it when she got groomed last, about 6 weeks ago. However, it takes about 10-14 days to develop...so that would tell me that perhaps she got it last time we went to the vet! Abby has turned into a picky eater over the last couple of months with her old age. She wants new dog food, then soft dog food, then no dog food, then she wants it hand fed to her. Now the vet tells me that with her antibiotics she'll want to eat even less and probably vomit from it as well. Yeah, what an exciting few days to look forward to. My poor old puppy, it's tough getting old.
So several years ago my beloved childhood cocker spaniel, Sally, died and I was anxious to get a new dog. About a month later Alan finally agreed to getting a new dog. I adopted Abby from the Cocker Spaniel Rescue Group. She was said to be about 6 years old and she was fairly blind when we adopted her. However, when I took her to the vet, they said she was more like 8-10 years old. Well, that was in 2002, so no telling how old our dog really is, but she's old anyway.
Abby over they years has cost us loads of money in vet bills due to her cataracts and glacoma. Over the past several months she's been sick as well. She's had diarrhea that was hard to treat, urinary tract infections, and her yearly check up two weeks ago. Well, now she's developed kennel cough, and she doesn't even get kenneled. The vet seemed to think she got it when she got groomed last, about 6 weeks ago. However, it takes about 10-14 days to develop...so that would tell me that perhaps she got it last time we went to the vet! Abby has turned into a picky eater over the last couple of months with her old age. She wants new dog food, then soft dog food, then no dog food, then she wants it hand fed to her. Now the vet tells me that with her antibiotics she'll want to eat even less and probably vomit from it as well. Yeah, what an exciting few days to look forward to. My poor old puppy, it's tough getting old.
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It's nice to have another blog to follow!! Welcome to the blogging world!!
Cute pics!! A new adventure for me!
Welcome to the blogging world.
I hope Abby gets to feeling better soon with those new meds.
Is Miss Abby feeling any better yet?
Well, no vomiting yet. However, I had to make her scrambled eggs/ dog food to get her to eat and sneak in her meds. She's still coughing, but hopefully after a couple of more days of antibiotics, she'll stop. Then Paige will probably get it. It's like having children!
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