Good news, everyone!

[ursulav]

Nine Goblins is on iBooks! You go to the app, you type in “Nine Goblins” and it’s THERE and it’s a BOOK! WOOO!

*pant pant pant*

No love from Kobo yet, but you can’t have everything.

Far more importantly, if you ask me, Brandon the border collie is back from the vet. We have been very nervous in the House of Wombat because he’s started falling down

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[geekhyena]

So sorry to hear about his blindness, but it sounds like you are managing it well! He sounds like a smart dog, too. Best of luck with him.

[ursulav]

It's actually much better news than we were fearing--I was afraid the hip dysplasia had got him.

[ashbet]

*nods* Knowing the relative quality of life for each, this is a much better outcome.

Glad that Kevin is moving his office downstairs -- that should make Brandon a lot happier :)

And YAY BOOK!!!

<3!

[geekhyena]

True. Dysplasia is -nasty-. Especially with joints affected from Lyme. If his get worse, though, you might consider some sort of carpeted ramp workaround for the stairs. IIRC they sell them. If not, they're fairly easy to kludge up with carpet remnants and some plywood. We did that when my sister's cat's arthritis got too bad (he was nearly blind before that, but he'd memorized where everything was and he learned where the ramps were pretty quickly.

[purrdence]

I now have this image of Brandon with a Seeing Eye Human...

[wombat_socho]

No cybernetic eye for the loyal beast? Think how cool it would be to have a cyborg border collie! Oh, wait...

[neowolf2]

Cyborder!

[zrath]

That's what I was thinking. No bionic eye for the border collie? Bummer, man.

[alicephilippa]

The next step is to install a stairlift so that he doesn't have to manage the stairs at all. Being not a beagle he'll soon manage to operate it himself.

[gardenwaltz]

Moderate yay? At least blindness is one of the 'less bad' things that can happen to elder dogs.