Theo's ears did not improve, so he had to have a general anaesthetic so his ears could be flushed and treated.  That was about two weeks ago.

There were no foreign bodies in his ears, and neither the vet's local swabs nor the ones sent off to the lab found anything significant apart from an overgrowth of yeast.

By the next day, the ears were full ( Read more... )

I see I made myself an Absurdly Large Ears tag last year, but then forgot about it.

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I feel like I've fallen enough behind posting that I'm just going to type random things that come to mind.

It poured with rain today, but I walked to Pembroke with Theo anyway, and went to a coffee shop.


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Sunday evening, my car, who is elderly and sometimes likes to come up with intersting surprises, decided to drop a window into the door and leave it there, so I'd taken it down into Gunnislake to at least get the window jammed in the 'up' position while the garage searched for a second-hand spare part on Ebay (I love that they do this automatically ( Read more... )

He found it very exciting, and also exhausting.  There were two other puppies in his class, a Labrador and a Springer spaniel, plus one older dog who was attending because he pulled on the lead.  We met more puppies coming for the second hourly class as we left, too, so that was very exciting for him too.

The Springer, a month younger than Theo ( Read more... )

...Lurcher stands awkwardly in background. Poor Rosie.  She didn't want to play with him today.

I should get my old manual lenses out. The autofocus lens can't cope with puppy heading towards it at top speed.  At the moment, recall training is going swimmingly, since Theo is still at the age where a sliver of cheese or a biscuit is SUPER EXCITING ( Read more... )

It occurs to me I should write this down before it is lost to the vagaries of my memory.

Theo was left in a box with fifty euros and his two siblings outside a tiny rescue project, Little Friends, run by a couple of people on the Greek island of Lefkada.   He was about one week old, and probably bred for hunting.  Possibly the owner took the pup(s ( Read more... )

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 The back leg which was operated on, and is now thought to be rejecting the metal implant, is not improving: in fact, if anything it is worse.  There are big swollen bruised areas either side of the joint as well as across below the scar now, all filled with liquid.   I've been giving her gentle short walks, but after a few minutes on her feet the ( Read more... )

Mollydog's back bad leg (the one that had the operation) was badly swollen this morning, so we've just been to the vet.  The hope is that she has just twisted and bruised it somehow, as the bone still seems solid where it was fused.  The swelling is considerable, and obviously painful, so she has antibiotics and is on complete rest till Monday, ( Read more... )