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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