It’s a small world.
I was giving a talk to a group of lively teenagers today, and one of the mothers came up to me after the talk and said she wanted to adopt one of the brown puppies I had advertised.
Oh, that’s great!
Which one? The ones at the abandoned house, she said. Ok, that would be Oliver’s puppies (Sandra and Co.). So, arrangements are being made right now, for this lady, Helen, to view the puppies. She wants a brown male.
Then, I headed to Terry’s house to go with him to see Wendy and meet up with Meiling and Sweetie. I’ll leave the Wendy story for later.
Sweetie was diagnosed with TVT yesterday, and Meiling had brought her for her first treatment. But last night, Meiling said she noticed bleeding in one of her paws, so I said it’s best to let the vet examine her.
Sweetie looking at other dogs in the clinic.
And guess who was sitting beside us? It was Sandra’s sister, Amber! We didn’t know it was Amber until Meiling remarked how lovely the puppy looked and asked what breed she was. The girl holding her said, “Don’t know…it’s one of Oliver’s puppies.”
Hey, what a small, small world!
Here’s Amber. Sandra’s family seems to have good looks, don’t they?
Soon, it was Sweetie’s turn, so in she went, along with us.
Dr Edmund examined her and discovered, from a blood smear that she probably has tick fever as well. One thing after another…. The funny thing is that nothing manifested while she was with us, and even while she was boarding at Healing Rooms. Dr Edmund said it’s possible that the chemo jab yesterday (for TVT) brought down her antibodies, thus the tick fever is surfacing now. When I first brought the dogs back on 21st December from LLLP, I gave every dog Doxycyclin for 5 days, but I suppose that wasn’t enough. That was for the nasal discharge.
Sweetie also has a small wound in between her paws and this is slightly infected, but the antibiotics would take care of that.
Otherwise, Sweetie is fine. TVT and tick fever are both treatable and considered quite mild compared to parvo or distemper.
We are still sponsoring Sweetie’s treatment until she recovers from both the TVT and the tick fever.
From the clinic, we proceeded to a restaurant in Puchong to wait for Meiling’s friend to deliver two packs of kibbles for the Klang Dog Pound.
Sweetie in the car. Meiling was worried that Sweetie had not poo-ed or pee-ed. Well, she did not have to worry for long because Sweetie did it in her car! It comes with the package, folks, when you have pets, you would have to expect all this. Dogs need time to adjust to their new surroundings.
Sweetie’s appetite also has not been too good, but that’s probably because of the tick fever. We hope she will get better with the medications.
These are the two packs of kibbles donated by Meiling’s friend for the Klang dogs. It took me some time to lug them into the porch from my car outside. It’s 20 kg each. My two quality-control inspectors are at work.
Mandy will collect these two packs next week. She had just delivered one pack to the pound today.
The Klang Dog Pound is well….always full of sad news. We just heard that DVS will be going in to euthanise the sick dogs tomorrow. I guess it’s too much to expect of them to treat the sick dogs.
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KY, I have a tip for the ladies lugging huge packs of pet food (we always go for the biggest pack for economy) – always have a foldable luggage trolley with you. I bought my lightweight President and Echolac ones from a second hand shop for RM10 each and use them to transport my 24kg breeder packs. Neat, yeah? Have to take care of our bodies so as not to suffer any injuries because the animals need us very, very much … we are simply not 16 anymore and really have slow down and watch out for our bodies now. Hehehheeee!!!!
Haha! There is Suki again!