another holiday, another sick fur baby

[bmccasland]

So it's another holiday approaching, and one of the furry beasts is sick. What's up with this continuing holiday tradition? This time it's Nala, my 14 yr old Aussie Shepherd. (Branwen and Erin both died around the holidays, last year and the year before). The tiny piece of vagina left after being spayed 13 or so yrs ago is now the host of a very nasty infection. Hopefully the antibiotic will do it's thing, and hopefully it won't upset her stomach too much. And since the Vet told me that she's taking human grade, human dosage, too bad I can't buy it with MY health insurance. So Nala gets pilled twice a day for two weeks.

Meanwhile, Bonnie the cat with hyperthyroid disease had her T4 levels checked, and they're OK, but she continues to drop weight. Dr. R isn't sure if it's a downward trend, or just a fluke. He wants her back for another weigh-in in a couple of months. If she wasn't a long haired cat, she'd look really bad. Pretty much skin and bones. (Bonnie is now on my lap) Tuna, did any one say tuna? We like tuna, feed me tuna!
I did try her on kitten food, but she didn't like it, prefers Herald's diet cat food. Silly skinny cat doesn't need DIET food!

Happy beginning of Thanksgiving. Two fur babies on meds 2x per day. oh happy day.