Katy sick, wish us well

Hi O.SO, just seen this thread, sorry to hear about your dog Katy.
I hope she gets better.

Hi osso. Hoping that the new medication will make a big difference for you and Katy. Sending good thoughts!

Meantime, while waiting..

she's about 36 hrs (whatever) sans house pooling. I shouldn't mention this as it could be a pee trigger. Mixed signals from Thursday and very early Friday, US time.

I was at the doggie store today with Diane and there was an elderly corgi there with an elderly man. I said a sentence or two and he told me all the dog had recently been through. I was interested in that he was a long corgi, besides being a corgi in the first place, plus regular interested. I'd have tried to engage more but Diane had been showing me the bull penis dog treat, whence Katy grabbed it forever (there goes $5.00), and the great dane nearby gave an explosive woof and slight effort at leap and I reined in Katy, and so on. I still heard more about that corgi, but not enough... had to cash out or the store would have been paralyzed.

Saturdays are interesting.

Meantime there was an older woman trying to promote a dog product (I pretty much missed her, but Diane engaged) and she was the one who spied all the action. (I go for the best cheap good stuff.)

Guess who likes lamb ears..

I know that store. I saw bags of cat litter there for twenty dollars. This is great, because whenever I buy at Family Dollar, I tell myself I'm saving nineteen bucks. Okay, I cherry picked one example. It's a good store.

Glad to hear Katy is doing so much better. I'll still be available to pick up the new prescription Monday afternoon, if it's there. I'll probably need a name and address for the vet, as I've only been there twice.

I think it would be tight, Roger - it sounds like they don't get afternoon deliveries until latish, when they are about to close, and then maybe not, since Tuesday was an alternative.

I'm over panicking about massive infection over the weekend, which didn't make sense in the first place, as the original infection was slow arriving. I just hated to see it start again.

Thank you for the offer.

Had to laugh at Katy's antics! A bull penis treat? As she's been having pee problems, do you think this is indicative of anything!!!

Glad there's been a hiatus in the house pooling - good girl, Katy, sounds as if you might just be getting there. Let's hope your mention of it won't prove to be a pee trigger this time Osso! Hey - it might even stop completely - wouldn't that be marvellous!

Still no house peeing.................
but I've waltzed into it before, while confident.

On the bull penis treats - what? and there are two kinds? Diane later explained that the lady talking re her company products (an older woman with a cane, possibly older than us) clued her in that some products the dog will eat fast and there was another bull penis option that lasted longer, which Diane bought some of.
My point was the news that they are not called bull penis treats on the package. Not that I saw a package for more than a half second.

At some point in there I took Katy out (failing, failing to advance paying our bill) and I could not get her to release what looked like a tappered carrot stick
from her jaw. I brought her back in. According to Diane, who then held Katy so I could do the pay business, it was gone, gone, gone.

We'll see what Sally dog thinks.

One of our Labs was a menace in pet stores - no matter how alert I tried to be, he'd wait for the opportunity to snatch a treat in passing - the largest being a huge rawhide 'postman's leg' which he clamped his teeth into firmly and just wouldn't let go! The most expensive was a rubber toy which he managed to rip as I wrested it from his jaws! Monster dog, but he looked so sweet with his booty hanging from his mouth like a hunting trophy!!!

Almost scared to ask - how is the pee situation?

A biggo foot-in puddle last night, nothing since.

Mid afternoon today, Roger called me, as he was here to see his sister nearby. Did I know if the place had the pills?
No, I didn't, they would call me. But I would call them, call me back.
I think maybe they can track.
I called, no, no idea.
Roger called, told him no idea. He takes off for his long drive.

An hour or and hour and a half later, the pills are there. Ok, I'll get them tomorrow. (At this point I figure mail would be a total f/up).
What are they? Chloramphenicol (not sure I remember the spelling).

Those are pills from back in my time as a lab tech.
Criminy, they have to compound them and it takes a week?
Something is screwy re antibios. (I'm not blaming the vet place, though I think they could trace better).

If I had money and energy, I'd start a business to fix this mess.

They have to compound Chloramphenicol?

This also might mean that the bacteria not killed in the culture and sensitivity testing, or mostly by the chloramphenicol disc in that testing, are nasties.

I'm not thinking that way yet. Wondering what the hell they are. Must ask.

Whatever the hell the med is, I hope it works. And fast!

I let you know when I get it in my hot little hands.

I'll add, she is fractionally better. But, not over it.

I need to check out why the hell some company would have to compound chloramphenicol.

But not today. Yammer at me if I don't chase this down tomorrow.

The request from the vet went in last Tuesday.

So, telephone call, there is slip sliding, the drug pellets come out to taking them 5 x day, once I pick them up.

I don't care, she likes ricotta gnocchi five times a day.

I think I need a talk with the head vet guy whom I already like, but am wondering.

I'd be a lot more annoying if Katy wasn't generally better.
But - I don't trust that.

A flood a night is still not good.

Don't think your worries displayed are echoed through the cyberspace to nothingness.
I'm here holding your dog's paw through all this, virtually. So what does Katy like to play nowadays? Does she enjoy a good tug of war now and then?

Thanks, ice.

She is sybaritic, most gets off on velvet ear touching.

I'm working up to talk with the head vet. I like him. I don't want to get caught in the fear of law suits realm.

That's damn frustrating. I hope you have it SOONEST.