First vet visit - personal reminders
He weighs 1.8 pounds. Awwww..... :)
No shots, yay. :) But he does have to go back in 3 weeks for some, and for a checkup. She said everything on him looks nice and healthy, and that I can give him some cool broth to up his liquid intake, because I really don't think that he's drinking enough water.
Then I remembered the way he's been scratching at his ears and flapping them, so she got out a scope to look inside... Yep... gunky and earmites. Creepy little white bugs zipping around in there. Now I'm really glad that I had her check them out. I bet they've been bothering him quite a bit.
He trembled some while he was there, probably because it was kind of a scary place. Lots of dogs barking in the back, excited ones coming through the lobby... Every one hundreds of times bigger than my little boy. I still say he handled it all very well. He just snuggled in really close to me.
Then I took him back to the exam room and put him on that cold table... Brrr... then he shivered. He didn't cry or anything, but I wonder if it isn't the slickness of those metal tables that freaks animals out. I've never seen a dog yet that doesn't get nervous when you put him on a cold metal exam table.
Whenever he got the chance, he wanted to be held right on top of my heart, as close as possible. He did manage to ride home by himself in the passenger seat - watching me with big bright eyes the whole time. Then he fell asleep as soon as we got home, so he's been napping in his laundry basket. Probably all that shaking wore him out.
The little girl across the street is gonna pester the hell out of me to "play with him" though. Every time she sees me, here she comes. I was headed into the house with my food in one hand, and him in the other, and she wanted to know if she could play with him. I said no, he needs to go in right now because we just got back from the vet's office. So she said again, "Can I play with him?" I repeated what I had already told her. *sigh* I let her hold him once yesterday and she wasn't very gentle. She also told me that she'd told her neighbors to come to my house and play with the puppy..... Oh brother.
No shots, yay. :) But he does have to go back in 3 weeks for some, and for a checkup. She said everything on him looks nice and healthy, and that I can give him some cool broth to up his liquid intake, because I really don't think that he's drinking enough water.
Then I remembered the way he's been scratching at his ears and flapping them, so she got out a scope to look inside... Yep... gunky and earmites. Creepy little white bugs zipping around in there. Now I'm really glad that I had her check them out. I bet they've been bothering him quite a bit.
He trembled some while he was there, probably because it was kind of a scary place. Lots of dogs barking in the back, excited ones coming through the lobby... Every one hundreds of times bigger than my little boy. I still say he handled it all very well. He just snuggled in really close to me.
Then I took him back to the exam room and put him on that cold table... Brrr... then he shivered. He didn't cry or anything, but I wonder if it isn't the slickness of those metal tables that freaks animals out. I've never seen a dog yet that doesn't get nervous when you put him on a cold metal exam table.
Whenever he got the chance, he wanted to be held right on top of my heart, as close as possible. He did manage to ride home by himself in the passenger seat - watching me with big bright eyes the whole time. Then he fell asleep as soon as we got home, so he's been napping in his laundry basket. Probably all that shaking wore him out.
The little girl across the street is gonna pester the hell out of me to "play with him" though. Every time she sees me, here she comes. I was headed into the house with my food in one hand, and him in the other, and she wanted to know if she could play with him. I said no, he needs to go in right now because we just got back from the vet's office. So she said again, "Can I play with him?" I repeated what I had already told her. *sigh* I let her hold him once yesterday and she wasn't very gentle. She also told me that she'd told her neighbors to come to my house and play with the puppy..... Oh brother.
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