Kep
It’s been nearly a week since I last posted here, the longest gap there has been on this blog. The reason for this has been that Kep has been very ill and both Caz and I have been very worried about him.
It started Friday morning; he could hardly walk and was finding it impossible to hold his head straight and his eye were ticking side to side, like a speeding metronome. We both thought he had had something like a stroke and got him to the vets as soon as they were open. The vet said it looked like brain damage of some sort and pumped him full of drugs, then asked us to bring him back the next day to see if he was improving. I have to admit I thought that it was going to be the end for Kep and the rest of the day was spent trying to keep him as comfortable as possible and stopping him from hurting himself as he staggered around the house.
Saturday morning brought a slight improvement and a trip to see another vet at our local practice who said it could be Vestibular Syndrome and that he could well recover some what over the space of a few weeks. So we have spent the bulk of the weekend watching over him and encouraging him to do as much as he can, while still staying safe.
The result is a much improved dog, he is still nowhere like the old Kep, but he is definitely in there and fighting to come out. At the moment he is lying down stairs making this one of the only blog post I’ve written when he has not been lying at my feet.
Photo for the day is Kep out in the water, this is where he is his happiest, splashing around and no doing as he is told.
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Now playing: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Dy-na-mi-tee
via FoxyTunes
It started Friday morning; he could hardly walk and was finding it impossible to hold his head straight and his eye were ticking side to side, like a speeding metronome. We both thought he had had something like a stroke and got him to the vets as soon as they were open. The vet said it looked like brain damage of some sort and pumped him full of drugs, then asked us to bring him back the next day to see if he was improving. I have to admit I thought that it was going to be the end for Kep and the rest of the day was spent trying to keep him as comfortable as possible and stopping him from hurting himself as he staggered around the house.
Saturday morning brought a slight improvement and a trip to see another vet at our local practice who said it could be Vestibular Syndrome and that he could well recover some what over the space of a few weeks. So we have spent the bulk of the weekend watching over him and encouraging him to do as much as he can, while still staying safe.
The result is a much improved dog, he is still nowhere like the old Kep, but he is definitely in there and fighting to come out. At the moment he is lying down stairs making this one of the only blog post I’ve written when he has not been lying at my feet.
Photo for the day is Kep out in the water, this is where he is his happiest, splashing around and no doing as he is told.
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Now playing: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Dy-na-mi-tee
via FoxyTunes
Comments
My thoughts are with you and I hope Kep keeps improving.
And what is it about a dog in the water? Moonbeam seems to lose all his hearing and responding to "Moonbeam NO NO!!!" when he is in the water.
:)