Check up

In an hour, we'll take Emily to the vet to see if she's well on the road to recovery. The signs are good. During the weekend, she,

1) barked at Daddy when H&M got into a little tiff. (I thought it was funny. M. is not so sure about that)
2) barked at random people walking by and the dogs playing in front of our house
3) ate chicken three meals a day, mixed with rice and sometimes cheese.
4) even ate a whole bowl of kibble after that, the little pig.

but,

She still sleeps all day, and isn't allowed (by the vet) more than a 10 minute walk. (H. cheats by taking her out 3-4 times a day, instead).

We're trying not to call her Bumily.

Sick Days (10)

Emily's back from the vet:
- no problem with bloodwork
- slight lowering of temperature (39.5)
- will eat chicken and rice/potato
- sleeps a LOT, and walks shaky.

Recovery will be very slow.
We're going back for a 5th vet visit next Tuesday to see how she's doing. I miss our crazy, barky, bossy doggie.

Sick Days

Emily's been boo since late last Wednesday. She's at the vet's now.

[Feel better soon, bunbun. Mommy misses you.]

7/22 (w): boo-ish
7/23 (th): more boo, listless
7/24 (f): very boo, very listless, not very hungry
(took her to beach)
7/25 (sa): very boo, not hungry, diarrhea,
(took her to Uncle Ernst's)
7/26 (su): very boo, not hungry, ate 1 bowl of chicken, diarrhea, very hot tongue
7/27 (m): very boo, diarrhea, vomit after eating grass, ate+drank almost nothing,
1 doggie-stomach pill
7/28 (t): very boo, vomit after drinking water, ate nothing all day,
Vet: 9pm, 40C temperature, three injections, 1/3 of soft food can, 1 doggie aspirin
7/29 (w): ate nothing, drank little
Vet: 11am, back for observation

Numerical Updates -18th Week & note to 엄마

17 Weeks and 2 days old

3 puppy vaccinations complete at 13 weeks. Next scheduled is her "fixing," at 7 months.

No rabies shot necessary in the Netherlands, unless she is
1) going abroad, or
2) staying at a doggy boarding house

Currently: 2.6 kg.

Temporarily on Eukanuba Sensitive Stomach due to her stomach upset, but will go back to Orijen Puppy after a week.

No teeth lost yet.

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[Pay Attention To ME!]

엄마, 좋은 하루, 한 주 보내세요. 지난 묵은 일 다 떨쳐 버리고 깨끗하게 밝게 지내려
노력하고 있이요. 사랑해요,
그리고 항상 엄마 아빠 생각하고 있어요.

Fame for Pot Puppy

Emily has been to the vet for some stomach trouble, which turned out mostly to be alarmed-parentitis. Still, she has new vet prescribed food (which she loves) and pills. Shoving them down her throat is H.'s new specialty.
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Emily is the featured puppy on Daily Puppy for March/13th, US time. Hee!
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Lest the cuteness on Daily Puppy let you forget, remember Emily is a pooper and messy digger extraordinaire:

[Diggy Puppy Kills Plants and Empties out Pot]
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The Dutch Team is going to the next round of the World Baseball Classics. Who knew the Dutch were so good at honkball? Of course Korea's made it to the next round as #1 from Group A, but now the players are all whining and sluggish and talking of dropping out. With your shield or on it, LOSERS! We're playing Mexico next on 3/16.

Vet Visit: Sex Change Operation

WILL NOT BE NECESSARY!

[Rrrufff! I'm a Girl!]

To celebrate the end of Em's gender confusion, Mommy decked her out in her blue shirt. tee hee.

(In Holland, like most western countries, blue means boy and pink means girls. You get little dry biscuits with sprinkles in the respective colors when a baby's born. Beschuit met Muisjes)

Anyway, if your little girl puppy has a little hairy nub that looks like a penis between her hind legs, she's still not a boy. tee hee. (unless is farther up her stomach)

Emily also got her 3rd vac, deworming, general check, a green light to go walking in public areas, and her microchip injection. That hurt a bit. But now any vet or shelter in Western Europe can hold a scanner ring over her neck, and know who she is and where she lives.

(M. wonders when governments will start chipping citizens. H. says offer tax payback and drinkies+fuel rations.)

On that cheery note, H. leaves you with Em's first guard puppy duty against the ebil Monthly Window Washing Guy:

[Who's that guy in our yard? Is he stealing our windows?]

After Yummy Food, Emily Barks at My Ankles

Post-vet, Emily was sleepy and needy, and refusing food.

So she got turkey white meat and no-salt gravy for dinner. She licked the bowl a dozen times after the food vanished, as if that would make more turkey appear.

Already I dread her reproachful face tomorrow when she finds Orijen in her bowl as usual.

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Emily likes digging... in her crate. FRAP or post-poo euphoria?

[Diggy]

[More Diggy]

Lazy Afternoons

Emily's energy turns on and off. Some afternoons, she can't be bothered to get up:



[news] Our visit to the vet's office was perfect and bribed with cheese. As usual with strangers, Emily went ears down, tail waggy, not a peep, even with a vacc shot. Big hit. Then she slept all afternoon, and got up at 10 pm to chase my ankles and bark at me. H. is learning how to growl with authority.