Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Wow!
Mitzi, a Lhasa Apso, ageing gracefully, going deaf and only 5 teeth left, bless her.
Brought this little girl home yesterday.
Laufey, 11 week old GR.
How’s her arthritis Paul?
Hi Rob, thanks for asking.
Touchwood we have been keeping it under control quite well and she has only had one flare up in nearly 18 months that has necessitated a trip to the vets to get some painkillers.
The last flare up was in June and since then I have been giving her a Flexi-Joint turmeric tablet with her twice daily meals (she has been having a Glucosamine tablet with each meal for a few years) and she seems to have perked up a lot and I now let her off the lead again, if there are no other dogs about, and she is full of beans and much more like her old self which is lovely to see.
She is going for surgery next Tuesday to remove a big lipoma (fatty lump) off the inside of her left ankle (you can just about see it in the photo). She has had it for ages and it doesn’t seem to bother her much but it is getting bigger, to the point where it is really stretching the skin taut and the vet said it needs to come off before it causes any problems.
What's funnier is the way that Marley(?) is just sitting at the top of the stairs watching.
Our Siamese, Sasha & Sukie, used to do that, usually when one or both of the Burmese (Suzy Wong & Zebedee) were "up to no good". The classic being S & S sitting on an upstairs window sill, just watching an "escaped" Zebby on the front lawn...you could almost see them thinking, "WTF is that cat doing out there????". However, cue "panic stations" for the humans to rush down and recapture the kitten.