Animals an' things.

Life...keeping me busy, which is a good thing I guess.

Puff, our adopted kitty, has gone diabetic. Diagnosed a few months ago. I've learned out to test her with a glucose meter, which I was doing twice a day. She was getting insulin twice a day, but currently her numbers have dropped lower, so I'm only giving her one dose a day now. Changing to a protein diet appropriate to a carnivore was the ticket. Minimal carbs. No veggies. It's possible that in time, she'll go off the insulin entirely!

Mojo the shiba inu must have been feeling left out. He's developed a problem with conjuctivitis in one eye. Medication has helped, but it's been stubborn about clearing up.

Risa...I was just posting in another blog about her. An incident that happened several years ago. I'd never realized until that happened that "crawling away to die" isn't just an expression.

Several years ago my labrador had a bad reaction to Rimadyl, and was vomiting severly. We didn't realize this at first. She was sick in the morning, seemed fine when hubby checked on her in the afternoon, but when we got home, I found multiple spots where she'd been sick. And no sign of the dog. Risa is usually right by the door when someone arrives. No dog. Didn't come when called. Searched the house, couldn't find her. Panic. I sent the kids outside to search the street, thinking maybe she'd somehow slipped out during the afternoon. While they did that, I searched the house again. Finally found her, in my daughters room where she never goes (except for an occasional forage run to see if there are any snacks in there).
She'd climbed up on the bed, then gone off the other end into a corner that only had about 12 inches of space between the end of the bed and the wall, where my daughters stuffed animals got piled when she slept. Risa had wedged herself down into the pile. This is a 90 lb lab. She was in pulmonary distress due to dehydration and the medication. We rushed her to the ER and thankfully, she recovered.

If she'd had outside access to woods...we never would have found her in the same scenario. She'd hidden herself away to die.