Kennel cough, cough

Another photo of sleeping Poodles but here we are both sick and they gave us injections and they give us antibiotics hidden in cheese and we get cough syrup sprayed into our mouths that we shake everywhere. Ha!

Another vet visit after another 'incident'

This afternoon I went with my humutts in the van and we went for a long drive but without my sister, Mia - which is strange because we almost always go everywhere together. It's not that often that we drive and drive so I made myself comfortable on the cushion and slept a bit.

I woke up and watched the world quickly go by and then we stopped. I was so happy to be out of the vehicle and was really looking forward to a walk somewhere new but we went into a door and then I could smell it - we were at a vet called the Tygerberg Animal Hospital. Apparently they are the best to go to where we live.

To be honest, I'm really OK at the vet's. They always have bags of food and shelves of toys and treats so there are tons of things to smell and explore. For example, a humutt and his humuttlets came in carrying 6 baby Alsations! They were so cute and I wanted to play with them but the humuttlets were holding onto them tight.

While we waited my humutt chatted to a lady about her Poodles and my Ouma humutt walked around with me and then weighed me (I'm a very light 26.5kg, which isn't bad for a heavy boned girl).

The vet was very nice. His name is Dr. Levitan. My humutts told him about my incident this Sunday (20 June) and showed him the video they took and then he held my paws and tapped my elbows and put a light into my eyes and looked into my ears and rubbed my bones and listened inside me with a funny metal and rubber thing and he took some wax from my ears and then he chatted with my humutts.

It seems they aren't really sure why I had my 'turn' on Sunday but the vet said he doesn't think it's epilepsy - more some sort of a seizure. He wants me to go for a scan so that he can rule out abnormal growths or scar tissue and so, the process of elimination begins. I also need to have my ears cleaned every 2 days to get the wax out - yuk!

Thanks to my anipals and humutts that have been wishing me well and asking after me - I love you all!!

Babette


My humutt that witnessed my 'incident' last month took this video with his phone camera thing because it's difficult to describe what happens to the vet when I'm standing there all smiling and playful.

My other doctor in Melkbosstrand

On the 7th May, when I had my 'incident' the kind humans at Melkbosstrand Animal Clinic were kind enough to allow me and my human in for my emergency consultation when my regular doctor wasn't available.

I have to admit that I was very nervous and trembled a lot but at the same time I kept letting the nice lady know that I still loved her by licking her and even doing a Poodle dance in her consultation room. She even offered me a bone biscuit as a treat for being such a good girl and not barking, biting or crying but it wasn not something that I was really interested in.

For those that don't know the story, I'm a bit clueless really but my two front leggies were not working properly and when my walking human got home from work and saw me all floppy and unable to stand properly, he freaked out completely!

My blood test results came back and they show that everything is fine and that I am a healthy three year old Poodle. Of course, we still don't know what it was that was wrong with me that day; lets hope it was a one off!

If you're in Melkbosstrand and need to get some anti-flea stuff, a bag of kibble or a nice toy for yourself, why not pop in and support the Melkbosstrand Animal Clinic? They are on Beach Road (heading towards towards Duinefontein).

Babette

My shaved patch!

I just wanted to show off where my lady vet took blood! I was very brave and she took two lots of blood and I only cried a bit when she took the needle out but I gave her a huge kiss to say thank you for helping me!

Babette