Positive Life NSW

Sam
It seems like yesterday when he was a bouncing puppy. After I took him to the vet last week I was a bit taken aback by the description at the top of the form – ‘Geriatric Canine’. Sam is only ten but he suddenly turned a lot greyer in the last year, is a little sleepier and less naughty than he used to be.

He’s still got a lot of spirit though. He had been to the vet to have a tooth extracted. No breakfast for Sam that morning because he would be under anaesthetic for the extraction. I picked him up in the evening after work, and it all seemed to go well. He’d just had an injection of pain killers and they also gave me several days supply of pain killers and antibiotics with instructions that he only eat soft food for a while. So I took him home, popped out to buy some dog food at the corner shop and came back to find he’d eaten all his antibiotics and all his pain killers, as well as some of the packet. He was obviously very hungry.

This was followed by our anxious dash to the vet to get him to vomit, and make it come out the other end as well. He must have thought it was a pretty bloody awful day. I could have done without it myself, but it was also reassuring that he could still get the better of me.

Glenn

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