Went to Jean Dodds seminar yesterday. Information overload. Head exploding. Oy ( Read more... )

Here on a quick trip back from the cottage for MiddleJim's soccer game. Bella's doing great and she loves the cottage. She and Katie have been playing tag with each other and jumping off the dock to retrieve sticks. Bella hasn't quite figured out that she's supposed to bring the stick back to me and drops them all in a particularly inaccessible ( Read more... )

Bella jumped up on the bed this morning and also ran up and down the stairs to the basement. I'd say she's pretty much back to normal. :-)

11 am: 38.0C

Bella just keeps doing better and better as the day goes on. I took her out for a second walk this afternoon, and she trotted along beside me almost the entire time. Towards the end, she even broke out into a run ( Read more... )

Jim and I just took Bella out for a short walk to the park and back. She's not her normally bouncy self yet, but she's moving much better. She can make it up a few stairs without any help, and she doesn't struggle to get up after she's been lying down and asleep for a while. Yesterday, she was quite stiff, and just standing for any length of time ( Read more... )

Bella looks a little bit perkier this morning. I got her up and took her out for a pee around 4 am--I've been mixing quite a bit of water into her food, so I figured she might need to go. Also, she's stiff, so once she lies down, she tends not to move much. After four hours lying on one side, I thought it would be good to rotate her ( Read more... )

Her temperature at this afternoon was 40.1C ( Read more... )

Bella's home. She had a shot of amoxicillin around 1 pm, and I have a three-week supply of pills to give her. Her temperature is about the same, but the vet said that she looked perkier at the end of the day than in the morning. She was "vocalizing" at the cat in the kennel above her. :-) Hopefully, the amoxicillin will do what needs to be done ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here at work and getting NOTHING done. Except fretting. Oh yes, lots of fretting is being accomplished ( Read more... )

I just talked to the vet again, and I'm going to bring Bella in for some more tests. She's going to repeat the bloodwork, see if she can get a urine sample, and maybe take an x-ray to see if her uterus is swollen. Bella's not drinking, so she may put her on an IV to keep her hydrated. She may also put her on a broad-spectrum antibiotic and see if ( Read more... )