Tonight, we took our Heinz 57 mutt for his annual check up. This usually means the following:
- the dog goes mental in the car whilst travelling to the vets
- the dog will pee in reception,
- we will all blush and offer to wipe up the accident,
- the dog will sit and howl until he gets to see the vet,
- the vet will give him his booster jab
- the vet will tell us the dog has a strong heart
- the vet will tell us he wouldn’t like to see anymore weight on said dog
- we leave and I tell daughter she needs to walk him more
I was also pretty sure the vet was going to tell us our dear Bailey is barking mad! He’s recently getting stranger and stranger with his behaviour.
He’s started sleeping in the spare room and he’s not even allowed upstairs. On Saturday morning, Hubby found him doing an SAS crawl across the landing to the stairs, he reckons he was also trying to be invisible dog and thought that Hubby wouldn’t notice him. He got a major telling off and hopefully he won’t be doing that again.
The following morning – very early - he was lying on the bench, underneath our bedroom window, crying. It was as if he was saying, ‘come on, get up, it’s the weekend, your supposed to be fussing me’
He’s also recently started to just sit very close to the lounge wall and just stare at it!
So we went along to see the vet and he was very good and didn’t pee in the waiting room. He did however sit and howl and continued to howl even when we were in with the vet.
I asked the vet if there was such a thing as canine dementia, he smiled and said that the Americans were doing some research into this and there are initial indications that there may be such thing. Great I thought, another nutter in the house!!
He then told me we should get at least another year out of our dear old Bailey – senile or not!
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Oh daisy dear, I do sympathise, it is all so very similar to the trouble we have with my father, sigh
My cat had to go to the vet this week and he wsa very good! We snuck up on him and popped him in the box before he knew what was happening, no time to complain! Apparently he howled all the way down to the vets in the car, but was as quiet as a mouse in the waiting room. When he got up on the table, he sat very nicelt indeed, but as soon as the vet's back was turned he started riffling through her bag of equipment! Being the ever curious cat! He then came home about 30 mins later and had to check the whole house to make sure that nothing had moved or changed, he did this twice! I think animals are all a bit loopy by nature!
Here is a picture of Elmo , the home-protector!
PS my cats aren't allowed on the beds, but one of them is sneaky and waits till I am asleep before he jumps up and all my cats stare at walls, spooky!
RS - As long as he's not suffering, in any way, it's quite endearing with the dog, I'm sure that isn't the case with a relative. I wish you well and hope that all is ok.
H - I think you're right, they are all quite loopy in a way - it must be the influence of their human companions! :)
Elmo looks very regal. My Hubby loves cats, but unfortunately Bailey hates them with a passion and Daughter comes out in hives, sneezes and streaming eyes. Therefore cats are a total no no for this house.
PLUS - the little terrors keep coming into the garden and killing the birds - 3 this week alone!
Is Bailey your dog? One of our cats was called bailey, she was the sweetest thing, very dainty! She used to site on the wall in front of the house and wait for admirers to come by and worship her! There is a big hole left in our lives now!
No cats for you then.
I am lucky on the bird thing, my cats like to bring back prepared food, such as toast, sandwiches, blocks of cheese, prepared fish excetera! Bad in it's own way but less yucky!
Awww, we Brits do really love our pets. It sounds like your cats could just about pull together your weekly shopping list!
Here's Bailey - http://daisyturnip.blogspot.com/2007/02/bailey-hes-no-border-collie.html
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