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There are only eight feet on the boat this afternoon. Daisy, our sweet companion for almost 19 years, took a turn for the worst last week and has left us today. We are beyond sad. I think that would have made her about 133 in dog years, and there was never a day in that entire time that she misbehaved. Well there was the time when she was just a youngster and the soap kept disappearing from my shower. I had hoped perhaps the kids where finding some use for it, until I happened to catch her in the act. She had hopped into the bathtub, took the bar lightly in her mouth, hopped out with it and took it under my bed. When I pulled up the bed-skirt, there she was with a big pile of soap. There were barely any teeth marks in them because she didn’t like the taste, just the smell.
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Guaymas, MexicoWe were worried, Ginger hadn’t eaten in days. If you know her, you know this is headline news. This is serious. Daisy got sick first. We are pretty sure it was kennel cough, but neither dog really ever came in contact with any other dogs, the usual way of catching this disease. There are a lot of wild and abandoned dogs here though, often wandering the yard where cruisers take pity on them and dish over a plate of leftovers. But how Daisy got it wasn't as worrisome as how she would handle a flu like illness at 18 years old. I guess we needn't have worried about her; she breezed through it and never seemed overly sick. She continued to empty her food dish, continued drinking from her water bowl and continued otherwise being Daisy, albeit with a cough. A week went by and the cough dissipated, finally disappearing and we thought we could relax. Nope. A few days passed and Ginger started coughing. And coughing. She coughed all night for three nights and slept all day. She stopped eating and we knew it was serious. The fear with kennel cough is that it can morph into something worse, like pneumonia, and it definitely appeared to be working it’s nastiness on Ginger. I had some potent doggie antibiotics (doxycyline) reserved for something like this and about four days into treatment, Ginger comes scurrying into the salon and skids to a stop in front of the dog food container. She was hungry. Yeah. |
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