I cant stand that shit.
At the very, very least could they not drop them at a vets/kennels/adoption centre? Hell even leaving them outside a supermarket for someone to find would be better.
Apart from anything else he would've had to go under general anaesthetic to properly clean his ear out anyway, the antibiotics weren't clearing it up and his last few nights were pretty bad. I don't feel guilty about it unless I'm explaining it to other people, then I feel the need to over-explain for some reason.
Anyway, Tilly seems to be working on a cat that may or may not be a stray (no collar, quite thin but young looking, seems to always be in a neighbour's garden but doesn't belong to them). She's been feeding it Kiki's leftover food closer and closer to the house so she's basically turned into one of those old ladies that wins other people's cats over with choice cuts.
My dog's all over the shop since she got groomed on Thursday. She's a cockapoo so got this stupid curly hair that keeps getting knotted at the roots. So every time she's groomed, the groomers say they have to strip it right back. She's definitely had it shorter than this before but hasn't reacted well this time. She seemed fine immediately after but has barely been out of her bed since Thursday night. Didn't want to go for a walk yesterday. Lying around, groaning and whining, not interested in playing or being in the same room as anyone else. Haven't really seen her like this before. I'm assuming she'll bounce back but I dunno. She's pretty fucked as of now.
That sounds more like a dog who’s ill than anything to do with the grooming. Could she have eaten anything out of the ordinary? Groomers do tend to give treats to keep the dogs calm …
My parent's dog has kennel cough at the moment. I think that tends to go in waves up and down the country like human colds do I believe.
Could it be that?
Yeah could be. We’ve been doing loads of stuff to her recently to be fair. She gets recurring ear infections so the vet we saw a couple of weeks ago went nuclear and now we’re pouring two different types of gunk into the ears, one of them twice a day, followed by cleaning out with cotton wool. And drenching the paws once a day in a third type of gunk, because that might be where the infections are getting carried from. And changed her food to hypoallergenic in case she’s allergic and that’s causing the irritation that means she’s always scratching her ears. And cut her food back because she was overweight. Which I didn’t notice because her mad bouffant was disguising it.
She’s handled all of that pretty well apart from disliking the process of having the treatments done. The follow up vet appointment on Monday said she was doing really well and the infection had cleared up. But then since Thursday, she’s gone into this mode.
@Monkey if the vet hadn't suggested otherwise that still sounds like ear infection behaviour to me. Brams used to get under the weather as a warning sign before the head shaking would start. And you didn't dredge up anything btw, I just waffle.
Big improvement in the pooch today. Energy levels not back up to 100% but she’s eating and moving around doing dog stuff. She was so out of it yesterday.