Puppy Central

bohdan and i have not been walking since last thursday, his back was bugging him and i thought we should take a break, besides i went out of town this weekend and i didn't think it would be a good idea for shari to take him when i wasn't around.

so today we resumed our walks along the grass area at the beach.
the sunset was beautiful, the sun was very red as it sank below the horizon, and the sky was full of pinks and purples. however as the sunset out came the mosquitos.

i didn't notice how bad they were until bohdan started snapping at them trying to catch them.

yesterday bohdan went to the vet, the chiropractor. his low back had gone out on friday and he had a very quiet weekend.

bohdan didn't growl at the chiropractor or the new vet tech once. at the end of the visit dr. szabo the chiropractor told me he had behaved the best she had ever seen. that made me happy. it is always nice to have other people notice that he has behaved well.

i know a normal dog wouldn't growl or bark or lunge at all, but my dog is not normal.

i have decided to stop the homeopathics until i can speak with the vet again.
there were changes in bohdan that i am not sure were what we were looking for. his body odor increased, mostly around his feet, his ears are gunky and a mess, he is scratching his ears constantly and he seemed irritable. but that could have been related to his low back going out.

i have an appointment scheduled for the 8th.

i spoke with the homeopathic vet last week. i am trying to get bohdan's acne on his chin to go away, his itchy ears and paws, and his weak hind legs. somehow i think they are all connected. so he suggested i try sepia 6c, 3 times a day for 2-3 weeks.

so i found the remedy on sunday and started it sunday night.
i have not noticed too much of a change other then in his body ordor. it isn't a bad/foul smell it is just different.

today shari and i both didn't go to work. i wasn't feeling well and she was working from home. around 4pm shari decided she wanted to walk to the bakery and get cookies, since i didn't want to make any, and that we should take trillian. which meant that i needed to go as well. we walked the 3 blocks to the bakery and trillian and i waited outside.

as we were leaving bohdan started howling and crying about the injustices of not being able to go.

tonight shari and i got home at a reasonable hour so we were each going to walk our dogs and spend some quality time together.

i took bohdan out to the car thinking i would put him in and we would go the beach. before i could get him into the car shari and trillian came out, and trillian jumped into the car... guess we are all going to the beach together.

took bohdan to the beach after work not much to report.
he wanted to walk a different route and actually got to say hello to another dog. he didn't cause too much of a fuss when approaching so i asked the dogs owner and they got to say hello. i kept it short and we continued on our way.

well we have not had a walk since friday night and bohdan was just getting ready to tell me all about it, when i scooped him up (well as best as one can do with a 150 pound dog) and threw him in the car. off to the beach we went.

shari woke me up on friday night/saturday morning to tell me that bohdan had torn his paw. this must have happened while we were at the beach on our evening walk. he was in so much pain that his hind right foot was spasming.

so no walk for him this weekend.

instead we went down to la and hung out in the sunshine. he seemed quite content to spend his time laying about.

on sunday i gave him a bath in the outdoors. he was laying in the sun on the cement...

i normally don't taken bohdan on walks on friday nights, since there is too much activity in our neighborhood and i am usually out until late. today however, i came home around 6:30, walked trillian and then bohdan and i headed to the beach.

it was about 7:15 when we arrived and i told myself i would give him an hour at the beach. it was still pretty crowded but that was good for him.