Happy Halloween!

Schatzi wishes you a spooky holiday today!

Schatzi's diet changed today, per vet's instructions

Dr. Skellinger called around noon on Saturday with new instructions on Schatzi's diet. For the next couple of weeks, Schatzi will be eating non-meatballs three times per day. Lactulose continues at one milliliter per day; neomycin continues per the label. Each non-protein "meat"ball contains one cup of cooked rice or potatoes, one teaspoon of brewer's yeast, one cup of cooked vegetables like peas, carrots, zucchini, or turnip greens mixed with a third of a cup of applesauce shaped into spheres. These are to be baked in the oven until they are cooked enough to hold together.

She gets one "vegetable ball" (don't know what else to call it) three times per day for a couple of weeks, so mid-November we are to notice if her symptoms have abated. 

Health and Halloween

Bruce and Poon came by yesterday (Tuesday) to give Schatzi a Halloween costume.

As far as Schatzi's health is concerned, she has good days and bad.  Over the weekend, her symptoms were very mild; she enjoyed a long walk to the dog park, where she found some other schnauzers with whom she could run and chase and play.

Monday and Tuesday were not as good: She craned and twisted her neck a lot, ran under the bed and wouldn't come up, etc.  She jumped up on a chair and cried and wailed for more than half an hour.

I wish I had video for this post

Schatzi is the first female dog I have owned, so I was pretty surprised when she started humping her dog bed today. Being ignorant about spayed bitch behavior, I would have associated humping with males and sexual expression. Apparently, that's just my error.

We keep a dog bed in her cage, which she dragged out into the middle of the room, growling and biting and shaking it. Then humping it! So it's been a big day, and educational too.