oh ... the whining refers to the fact that she's whining about being in her Kennel again. After she did some #1 outside, I put her back in the kennel so I could put stuff away. She didn't like being left alone and in the kennel after being in the Vet Kennel with all those people and animals around and such. So far I'm on 2:57 of her being quiet. Another few minutes and I'm going back in with praise for her being a good girl.

She's doing good enough to whine!

Just picked her up from the vet. She ate a can and a half of baby food. She would have eaten more if she was allowed!

And she had a bowel movement! Who would have ever have thought I'd be excited that a dog pooped!?!?!? But she did :)

So hopefully, we'll be able to coax her into eating more baby food. Then ease her into some canned food we were sent home with. Then she'll be all better.

The vets are hoping that they won't see her until her next vaccination. That'll be two weeks from when she had her last one and at least 1 week after she's back on a normal diet and all right.

Thank the Lord!

She's eating some ! ! !

She's started to hold down a few licks of baby food ! ! !

She's also wanting to be more active and do an IV ! ! !

These are all kinds of good signs. I'm even more hopeful! And I have to run to get a few more things when I bring her home at noon.

They're sleeping

Note:This entry was composed last night at about 10PM.

Emergency clinic last night.

She tested positive for Parvo. Parvo == very VERY VERY BAD BAD BAD puppy thing.

Our girl was hurting ... there was nothing we could do ... Mark was all torn up inside... "if you'd ask me last week if I'd feel this way about a dog, I'd have said no way. And it's only been a few days."

Today I ran her back to our usual vet. EClinic only has night hours. He continued antibiotics and IV fluids ...

... there's nothing we can do ... she just looks up at us with those big dark eyes "feel bad" ... and then puts her head back down and trys to get comfortable in some way ... i can't even tell if she's warm enough or too hot or ...

and i keeep feeling like I'm missing what signs she can give of when she needs to go out, to pee, to throw up ...

i'm trying to give the pain and the fear up to the Lord. that's what i know i should be doing after all this Bible study. and that's what i know is the right thing to do for all the other reason's too. i'm asking for the power to do that. i want to ...

i want to ask God to just make her better to make her alright to let her be just the bounding bundle of joy that she should be ...

... i'm so ashamed that i didn't want her at first i'm so ashamed that i was hesitant about getting one ... i Love our Blanch.

It arrived

Oh, and the Linux box arrived. I had enough time during a Blanch nap to go and open the box, then open The Box. WIth it being cold outside, I don't want any thermal shock or such. No time to play with it though. I need to plan for the next potential vomit.

She did it again

She's thrown up thrice this afternoon. Once on her pillow bed thing ... how the heck am I going to get that cleaned. The next two times I managed to get her outside in time.

I just talked to a the vet again ... a different person this time. She said that this sounds like an unusual reaction for a new puppy, or even one who has just had shots. So she recommended bringing her in if she's still not holding food down by tomorrow morning. Also, she recommended pedialite (sp?) (tm) (etc) (whatever) to replace some of the electrolytes that she's lost in the vomiting.

Bleh on 2 titles ago

Just looked at the title 2 ago, that sounds so Doogie Hauser.

Maybe it's the puppy blog

Ok ... she was sick yesterday morning at 4:30 am ... or something like that. It took most of the day before she would drink some water.

Today, we've only now gotten her to eat some food. Some canned instead of some dry. She threw that up at about 9. She threw up again at about 11. I'm inclined to believe that might have been the remnants of the canned food. It was a little thicker than just water. So maybe ...

I called Drew. He said that it's ok to loosen up on the rules. She's sick after all. I keep feeling like I'm not listening well to her. She did have a #1 accident earlier as I was trying to move things around. She was unsupervised, completely my fault. I kind of rushed to grab her and bring her outside even though I know the books say that that's not the best way to handle it.

Right now I've got her kenneled again while I try to clean up her mess ... and to be frank, try and figure out what to do next. I'm guessing eating. At least seeing if she's interested in eating or drinking a little. But to be honest, I'm a bit afraid to ....

I just want to know how to listen better.
I hope that I learn soon enough.

I remember when I was sick

I remember I was sick once. I woke up and didn't feel good. My mother and father both worked. She called in sick to work and stayed with me. I started feeling better towards the end of the day.

Saturday we picked up a puppy. Mark has wanted a whippet for a long time. There was a hobby breeder not too far away and we picked one up.

The first few days were exciting and nervous. I'll write about them soon.

Yesterday we took her to the Vet. This morning she got sick. As in she threw up in the kennel where she sleeps. Mark and I felt horrible. Absolutely horrible. So not good. He held her and tried to keep her small shivering body warm as I cleaned up the kennel so that she could sleep.

She went to the bathroom once this morning alright. But since then, It's taken a lot of coaxing to even get her to drink some water. Understandably, she hasn't eaten yet. I'm a little worried since it's already 11:30. But hopefully she'll feel better soon.

I'm kind of trying to stay on schedule with her kennel action. But part of me wants to say fuck the kennel training schedule right now. She had, at the very least, an upset stomach.

I think I should call in a consult with Mark's brother. See what he says about it.

Though, as I was washing out the towels that we cleaned up the vomit with, I couldn't help but notice the grass bits and such that were in there. I'm hoping that it wasn't something I allowed her to eat on her last walk that got her sick.

As a side note

The UPS site says the computer shipped from California and arrived this morning at MESQUITE, TX, US ... about the time that Blanch was getting sick.