Doggy Update

[sereneorange]

Porky McLardass is doing well. He is gaining a bit of weight. We were lucky enough to have a friend who is friends with a good vet that works at Banfield. He has significantly reduced the price and is going to do the treatment for Porky. He gets his first treatment Wednesday. The price is still a hardship on us, but I guess we will find a way. There is no way someone is adopting this dog while it is still sick, and he is just the sweetest thing who has obviously had a hard life and he deserves a chance.

The cats are NOT thrilled with his presence. He will be spending quite a bit of time in the crate Karen borrowed from her coworker soon. After the first treatment, he has to be calm, not excited, and fairly still for 60 days. He cannot do that while getting his freakout on every time he spots a cat. He is really good. There are two big dogs in the yard behind us. They come out and bark at him and when Porky barked back and ran at first, he was very obedient when I told him to shush and sit down. Now he doesn't even bark at them anymore. He comes over to me and sits down.

Con gave him another bath last night and he smells fresh as a daisy. His coat is so pretty and shiny.

He has separation anxiety and whines whenever one of us leaves the house. He is learning to sit and lay down. He hates the crate. He LOVES cheese and spinach tortellini. I normally wouldn't feed him people food, but jeebus he is so damn skinny and it is nice to see him eating something. He is eating dog food more and more.

Comments

[texasts.livejournal.com]

Put some cheese and spinach tortellini in the crate! Problem solved!

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

He likes that 2% kraft cheese slice crap. I can lure him in there with it, but I will be damned if I am cooking cheese tortellini for that dog daily. lol

[texasts.livejournal.com]

Heh! Well. The real trick is to make it seem like a good place to be, isn't it? Leave it sitting around open. Put something comfy to lay on in there. Throw a toy or two that the dog likes in there. Worked for our boxer. He likes to lay in the crate now.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

We are doing that now. It is open. He has a nice soft bed of blankets and sheets in there now. We put him in last night when we went to dinner and foolishly put food and water in there which he knocked over when he threw a fit. Now we know. He will go in there tonight because we need to get him used to being in there.

[rainygirl.livejournal.com]

Put some dirty panties in there. Dogs love those :)

[jbluemoon.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha!

[eonblue21.livejournal.com]

I know people say not to feed dogs people-food but I feed mine people food all the time, he's part of the family, he's a people :)

My parents dog eats majorily people-food and has since he was born in 99 and he's healthy as an OX.

My dog, James, eats a mixture of dog food and people-food and he seems happy and energetic most of the time