Comments on: Mickey

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:02:19 +0000

Craig, that’s very understandable. Lucy is vegging out on couches, still, only going on short walks. Her final heartworm treatment in a couple weeks. Aside from his randomly recurring phobia of hardwood and vinyl floors, Dutch is fine. They both enjoyed the drive to Vermont immensely (with more room in the backseat than we had up front). Naturally gracious guests, and generally spoiled – all of us – by lots of time together. Vermont itself was okay too (a river and fresh snow very exciting for New Year’s, no leashes and acres to explore, etc.) Their stockings (an archaic ritual) far superior (no fruit fillers). At times I worry that, if anything, they are too emotionally close (Dutch being likely to go first); they literally share the same bed(s), bowls, bones, etc. On walks, you know, every third rock and bush is doubly sniffed, doubly inscribed.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:36:45 +0000

Thanks, Matt. There’s a dog at the local humane society that is routinely featured in the paper in the weekly “pets available for adoption” column. She’s a rottweiler mix (like Minnie) and her name is Princess (same name Minnie had at the shelter in Toronto). It seems “Princess” is the default name for black and tan female mutts of indeterminate age. There’s also an approximately three year old hound who is terrified of humans who came in as a stray at the shelter. Too soon for another dog – especially one with medical and psychological problems – however. How are Dutch and Lucy?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:42:25 +0000

Condolences. There is some comfort in having doubled his life-span, I suppose. Everybody should adopt older dogs.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:04:06 +0000

Thanks Eric and AZ. Igge is doing much better. His constipation has cleared up. (Mind you, he’s having 4ml of a liquid laxative a day and eating two cans of soft chow.) The other concern we had with Igge was what looked like a cyst under his eye. Fortunately it isn’t a cyst – rather, he had an abscessed tooth (readers might recall we originally, ironically I suppose, thought Calvin’s tumor was a tooth problem) and the infection wasn’t coming out of his mouth, but had worked its way up the root into some cavity and then out underneath his eye. So, long story short, he had some teeth pulled last week. He’s doing much better now and recovered much quicker than I would have in similar circumstances. Meanwhile, regarding Calvin, see my forthcoming comment in the post on Calvin…

By: az

az — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:54:43 +0000

Sorry to hear about Mickey. Looks like he had a pretty fun, long life though. Is Igge okay now?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:24:49 +0000

My condolences to Mickey and his social network.