Showing 12 posts from January 2009
The last few days have been memorable for three main reasons:
1) Biggles has started cocking his leg! So far he only does it when marking territory but in my book he’s a proper little boy now, and still only five months old. Susan just doesn’t get why this is such a big deal. Maybe it’s [...]
Back in November Beanie swallowed strips of a plastic material while she was playing in her regular park, and had to have an operation to remove them. At the time wondered if this was a one-off, or whether Beanie had become a serial swallower. We got our answer this morning, when she again swallowed pieces [...]
They say that colds and similar ailments don’t go across species, but it’s very common to see an owner struck down with a pesky bug at the same time as his/her dog. On the same day we took Biggles to the vet with a respiratory infection, I could feel the back of my throat and [...]
Over the last couple of days Biggles has had a chesty cough, and this morning he was really off color: weak, shivering, breathing fast and shallow and not particularly interested in food.
Earlier in the week Beanie had been uncharacteristically lethargic, and Biggles had appeared genuinely concerned about her, staying close but not trying to engage [...]
We decided to swap the normal park visit for a swimming session today. Biggles is too young for a proper swim, so still needed a morning on-lead walk, and since we were running low on his food I combined it with a trip to our local pet shop. Dogs are allowed inside and it was [...]
