BadMonday

At the moment I am a bit behind in everything. It is simply because on 19th of February I ended up laying on veterinary clinic floor.

It really was a bad Monday to all of us. Especially to poor dear Pii. I left the house at 3.50pm and she was completely fine. I arrived at 8.27 pm to hear she had drank water only to throw it out; not only once but three times. Just clear pure water, immediately after drinking. I did the palpation examination and there was simply nothing wrong in her stomach but right after the palpation she hurried to drink only to throw out again. I called the vet. At vet she started to throw out blood and had bloody diarrhea. She was IV hydrated, given medication that prevent bleeding, pain killers, something for nausea and IV antibiotics and taken blood tests. It turn out she had serious intestinal inflammation caused by infectious stomach flu of dogs.

Of course even a fear of loosing your beloved family member is a huge stress. It brings you extra stress when it is up to your cattle or working animal on which your living is partly or totally up to. Pii is soon turning to 4 years and begins to be ready. Loosing her would also mean we loose 4 years of daily work in training her. All it on the moment when she finally is becoming grown up reliable working dog whom I can count on even eyes closed when something weird happens. 

We thank all the friends and family members who supported us in the process. Pii needed 20 pills daily. They needed to be shared so she had time for meds 7 times each day! With animals the meds are given according to their weight so for a dog with 34 kg weight it was a pretty impressive pile of meds. At pharmacy the lady asked how I was going to make my dog to eat them all. Well, that was easy, but making her drinking again was another thing to do because she was 100% sure the water she drank made her sick. Now, after 13 days she is re-trained to drink water again. It was quite sneaky process but I can tell it started with human tea cups, included buckets and a kettle where a frozen meat was sink into clod water. Now she drinks without trouble or feeling nausea when seeing water but not from her old drinking bowl -she backs off when ever she sees it. In the future I need to make her drink from it too, only to wipe away the bad memory. 

We are happy to tell that despite it was infectious Nuka had it very mild. On one evening she had a bit stomach pain and that's all. We all are happy and healthy now. I am going to have a winter holiday week from work and hope I can catch you up with the blog. 💙