Tummy Ache

Blunder had to visit Gordon at the Rum River Vet today. Diagnosis: acute gastritis. Gordon thinks the change from Iams mini chunks to Iams for toy dogs about a week ago upset her tummy. She's lost a pound. She was 9 pounds and now she is 8 pounds. Percentage wise, that is a lot - 11%. So she gets antibiotics wrapped in peanut butter twice a day, homemade rice/hamburger dog food for 3 days, and 3 meals a day instead of 2. During this exam, she had her anal glands expressed. Wow, I don't think that pink and blue flowered wallpaper will ever be the same. Gordon wiped it up though. The anal glands weren't the problem. Sensitive stomach is all. While waiting, I studied the bulletin board in the exam room with dog pictures with names. I saw lots of human names - Sophie, Addy, Maxwell, Roscoe, Timmy, Ashley, Chloe, Sam, and Tiffany. Some dogs have doggie type names - Bowser or King or Princess or Scout. Two dogs really looked like their names - Roscoe (a boxer) and Boris (French bull dog). A dog in the lobby had an accident. The receptionist told me while she was working on Monday a woman came in with this 8 year old fat beagle, said she would be right back with her purse, and never came back. This beagle was abandoned. It's been living at the vets since Monday. And, ever since it's been there, this beagle is brought outside many times a day where it does nothing and then comes in and does it's business in the office, stinking up the entire waiting room. The smell hit my nose like a slap in the face. Phew! Blunder hasn't been smelling too good lately but she's not nearly as nasty smelling as this abandoned beagle. I feel bad for the abandoned beagle. The Vets don't want to bring it to the Humane Society because they know it will be euthanized. I think the owner was cowardly to drop it off at the vetinary office. Yet, better there than at the side of the road.