* comes walking out onto front porch holding a paint brush and wearing some of glenolam's pull ups on her head, seein' as how Nifty has the big polka dotted granny panties *
G - thats a lot of shurd, for sure
so here's how its goin'
first i'm making progress on my kitchen shelves altho i've got paint on just about every cat we have. so they are all now banished to the bed room until i'm done. "No Nicholas you arent helping a bit"
then we did not have rooster day. at all.
but before all that - can i just get a collective "THANK HEAVENS" for Savingdogs??? ohmigosh are we lucking to have her around. I'M lucky to have her around... wow... she really talked me off the ledge yesterday. Thanks baby! we love you!!
so we took Dog#2 and a big sack o poo to the vet. $200, about an hr of our time, a couple of "dont you embarrass me here, dog", and one stern "no I'LL hold the pointy end - you stick with the belly, Dr Vet", and 2 Rx's later.......
turns out Lucky has......
cocci and raccoon worms.
before SD gave me a good shaking i thought he was gonna flop over dead. but no i think he's gonna make it. apparently actually getting raccoon worms is unusual so there was a bit of a hubbub.
but i talked to the vet this morning who confirmed that Dog#2s blood work is picture perfect and our dog is just "weird and wormy" and once we get another wormer or two, and a treatment for cocci (me: cant i just use corrid?" vet: no) we'll be just fine.
the good news is the vet is incredible. not only are they willing to work with us - they are willing to work with ME. and thats saying something. i've said it before - i tend to give vet's a run for their money and can quote chapter and verse with them. so our good vet knew that if we were taking our dog to the vet - and specifically TO HIM that we needed some pretty serious help. he's a great problem solver and took a lot of time for us to go thru all of the possibilities.
and they are NOT making us drive the hour+ back to their office to the get rest of the meds - they are calling the other Rx's into a local (to us) vet.
but
the electric in our vet's office went out and they are waiting for it to get turned back on and ALL of the local vet's info is in the 'puter.
hows THAT for a crazy day!?!!?
in the meantime i'm going on the murderous rampage and we will rid these parts of vermin if its the last thing i do.
i figure i'll round up Buster (cuz he's good with an axe) and SKR8PN (cuz he shoots stuff in the grass) and we'll saddle up and have ourselves a good old fashion raccoon shoot. i'm fixin to blast 'em all to kingdom come.
but for now i'm gonna finish up painting my shelves and wait for the electric to get turned back on so she can tell me where i'm going so i can drive into town AGAIN.
sheesh!
thats us. weird and wormy dog.