New old dog: it's love again.

larger dose of the old one - but I knew that when it was decided to go for another round.

Have you considered getting a second opinion on all this?

No. I know the antibiotic and the bacteria, as well as the veterinarian. There was a note when she first took the antibiotic that needed to be compounded, that it might need a refill and to ask in time for more to be compounded. I did so and the dose was increased. This time the note says to bring her in if symptoms don't resolve. Then we would have to look into the other matters that were described in an earlier visit.

The two other vets I've been to in Abq - with Pacco - were professionally dismal. I'm a competent judge.

A toast to the success of the new antibiotics - may they work well and heal Katy quickly - and save Ossobuco from emptying her freezer and larder totally!

DogGirl is apparently better, but too early to tell.

Very glad she seems better, osso.

But, just to give things another boost, let's toast those pills again.

TO THE PILLS!


(The photo is of John Boles and Nancy Carroll from the 1933 film, Child of Manhattan)

We'll see in some days.

She is lovely and she is fighting, last I heard, quite a number of weeks ago, 4 types of bacteria, at least two of those opportunists.
The vet person is in contact with bacteriologists.
I used to be a bacteriologist, but not at this level. I only did humans...
kidding, as I wasn't at diagnostic level on all that. Moved fields.

Meantime, Katy doesn't know about all this stuff, is Happy Girl.

I just have to ask - how is brave Katy doing now? Happy Girl - a beautifully descriptive name for a beautiful young lady. Give her a big hug from me and tell her one of her English aunts thinks of her often.

It's a waiting game, now mid second day sans house piddles.
She sends her English aunt some finger licks.

Ah bless her! Love that Katy girl. Good luck to her!

Looks like the new batch of gnocchi (gads those went fast) will be made with bulgar flour (cracked wheat) and regular flour, perhaps with some mint and parsley. But not until tomorrow.

For you, Osso:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/this-is-what-it-happens-when-140-corgis-have-a-beach-party

A corgi plethora!!

I googled around and found that was at Huntington Beach in southern California. Beautiful day.

That is a new Russian republic ... Corgi-stan!

Must be a happy place..

It was voted to be the cutest republic in Russia. Also, all the hydrants are placed low to the ground there.

Well, I just plain tossed those out. The gnocchi/kofte were too heavy to rise in the boiling water, at least the ones in the recipe I followed. I presume I made them too big, to hold the pill. They presented as concrete blocks.

So now I'm making a favorite, suppli al telefono - cooked rice w/parmesan and egg wrapped in a ball around mozzarella, then breaded, which when hot fried, strings out like telephone wire. Except I never hot fry, I bake them, and this time, no mozzarella. We'll see, I may end up with a lot of personal suppli on my hands.
Lucky she likes the salmon fishcakes.. as some of that can be wrapped around a pill.

I'm not sanguine as she is still leaking, though less today.

Damn....sorry to hear about the leaking. Any fresh ideas coming from anywhere about alternatives/adjunct treatment?

Is she well and happy in herself?

This must be a huge deal for you financially as well as the obvious emotional distress.

So far financially I am ok but it is tight - I didn't adopt a pet for years after Pacco because I couldn't pump up re vet care. Roger's sister's trust pays the bills within her, the sister's, lifetime. Trouble over time is that I have to pay them first, but never mind - and the vet center bills the trust, beyond useful. Except for this week, but I take that as a mistake.

I like his sister, as it happens.