Straydog UPDATE posted TUESDAY 7/22/03 at ~9:30 p.m. CT
Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
TUESDAY JULY 22 2003
Shannon's Straydog medical report for today
Jed
Dr. Morton ran Jed's blood tests
again after treating him for his suspected bacterial infection.
Great news: his counts are all normal now. It seems that the infection
was affecting other areas of the blood and skewed the test.
Julie
During her 6:00 a.m. feeding as
I bent over to inject Julie with her insulin, the doggie biscuit
for Julie's kennel mate, Jed, fell out of my shirt pocket. Since
I had a needle in my hand, Julie beat me to the cookie! I called
Dr. Morton, who confirmed that the non-diabetic cookie would have
altered Julie's glucose count today. He assured me that nothing
horrible would happen to Julie from one cookie and suggested that
we test her blood tomorrow instead. Sorry, Julie!
Sally & Alice
Our nervous tail-chewers, Sally
and Alice, were examined today by Dr. Morton. He had to remove
a bit of exposed, dead bone from Sally's tail, but he expects
both tails to fully heal. The difficult part will be keeping them
away from their tails while they heal. Dr. Morton recommended
some ointment specially made for open wounds, daily bandages,
and continued wearing of E-collars. Because we cannot always keep
an eye on these two dogs in their kennel on the other side of
the big play yard (and because we are quickly running out of hospital
room inside), we are going to board them at the clinic until their
tails begin to heal. Then we will try them with their E-collars
off, and then the bandages will come off. Hopefully after their
tails heal (and they are given anti-stress supplements), they
will no longer want to chew them.
Katie
Katie came home today with her much
cooler hairdo, and she was completely confused by her new indoor
housing situation. It took the poor old girl an hour before she
lay down and made herself comfortable. She got to go on several
walks to the big play yard where she stood in the pool to cool
off even more. Katie is slow getting around. Her legs don't work
as well as they used to, and she has just enough teeth to snap
at the hands cutting her toenails, but she's a favorite of every
Straydog employee, and everyone was excited about her new living
arrangements. We hope she becomes even more spoiled!
