What a Week!

First off, we hope everyone is having a nice Labor Day weekend, and is staying safe. It's been nice to see Stella- the S's. daughter's lab again. But, I think our barking still scares her, because she's been shying away from the fence when we've been out there. We've also seen the rabbit again, in the next door neighbor's yard. It didn't come over to the fence to say hello, it just sat very still under their tree. I think we scared it, too. We're not trying to be mean, just neighborly. We'll talk to Lucky every so often, and he likes a nice chat...when Aunt Pat or Daddy isn't trying to hush us up. Sometimes, it's hard for a girl to get a bark in edgewise.

We also want to pass along our condolences to Deb C., who's our neighbor and works at the Vet's office, on the recent death of her mother. We'll all be keeping her and her family in our thoughts and prayers.
Katie went back to our Vet this past Friday, and the Emergency Vet on Saturday. Aunt Pat noticed that Katie was scooting on Daddy's floor, so he took her over. Sure enough, her anal glands were full, and the Vet cleaned them out. Saturday morning, Katie had some diarrhea that looked like it may have had some blood in it. She was still pretty perky, but she looked like she wasn't feeling well. She stopped eating again, but would still drink water. The Vet said her kidney tests were a little worse, but it could be from dehydration due to the diarrhea. Chloe and I sniffed her over quite frequently, but we couldn't tell what was wrong with her. Some dogs have been known to sniff out cancers and tell when humans are about to have seizures or diabetic problems, but not us. We can sniff out what the human's are eating, but we're not Doctor Doolittle.

Anyway, when Daddy talked to the Vet this morning, he was concerned that Katie still wasn't eating, and looked a little down. Her blood tests looked better, but they wanted to run a test of her adrenal glands to check their function. If there's a problem with them, it can be easily treated. So Daddy went to see her and took her some of the turkey she likes, heck, we all like it a lot. Katie ate it right up! She also did a big piddle on the floor, so we know she's hydrated. We won't say anything to her that we know about it. Some things a girl just doesn't repeat. Daddy won't know until later this afternoon if Katie can come home today. If not, she should be able to come home tomorrow. Katie has an appointment at our Vet tomorrow to have some blood drawn, so we'll see if she still needs to go. Since Katie's been in the hospital, Chloe and I have been staying extra close to Aunt Pat, just in case she needs anything.

Chloe will go to the groomer again on Wednesday. She can't wait to see everyone there!