So Charlie/Chachi/Buddy/Trouble has been scratching and scratching, so we went back to the vet (actually a new vet, the one my parents have been going to for years...well not my parents but their 3 dogs and 5 cats). Anyhow, the vet (Dr. H.) says we should do a skin scraping to see what he has, it may be scabies. SCABIES??? Jesus, Mary and Joseph. So Dr. H. says we should sedate Charlie so we can get a really deep scraping, and there will be blood. Oh my. So first he gets the needle. Then the vet says he'll be back in 10. Then Charlie flops over like he's dead and his eyes roll back in his head. I start to freak thinking he's had too much and he's just been put to sleep forever in front of my eyes...but when the vet comes back and starts to shave the scraping area, Charlie moves. YAYYYYYYY!!! So the vet takes the scraping to his microscope (are you still reading this??) and he comes back a few minutes later to ask us if we want to see it under the microscope. Okay. I think. So I carry "dead" dog into the back and Dr. H. shows us the grossest little moving amoeba-like sickness. It's not scabies...it's demodenia or something like that. Apparently we have it in our eyelashes and stuff but in dogs with a lowered immune system it can get way out of control. And 25 years ago it was FATAL. So he gives Charlie another shot (poor baby) and I take him home where he continues to play dead until the morning.
The next day he was perfectly fine and I went to get him some more food at the pet store. The woman asks what kind of puppy I have (because I am buying puppy food) I tell her he's a Potcake. She says "Oh, they eat dog food?" I say "Yes, why would you ask that?" She says "Well I just didn't know they ate dog food". I smile and don't ask her again why she is confused that a dog is eating DOG food. When I get to my car it hits me...she must have thought I said POTBELLY, as in pig.
16 comments:
LOL..poor confused lady.
I had a similar thing happen to Cooper. He needed to be sedated, and it never really took, but they were able to take the blood. I got him home and he collapsed in the doorway, his eyes rolling back. We raced him to the 24 thinking he was dying/reacting to the meds. He ended up being lethargic like that for a day and a half! Although the decrease in tearing around the house was a nice change.
LOL Potbelly!
I would have been freaked too! Poor baby puppy. And that stuff being on our bodies too kinda freaks me out. Like I need a bath. Or a shot. LOL
M~
hahahah she'll be telling all the people in her line "did you know that potbelly pigs eat regular dog food?"
interesting connection particularly since her question was 'what kind of 'dog' do you have'? if that was the question i would think most reasonable people would respond. its not a dog, its a pig.
Binsk! You are back! YAY! The Dark Side was a little darker without you brightening up the place a bit now and again. Thanks for stopping by. Hope your potbelly stays better. LOL It's harsh when a pig gets a disease a dog should have. Have a great one love.
TG
~smiling~ (that's a good thing)
cute story,
and btw.. thanks for your comment,
it meant a lot ;)
Don't you jsut wish that would happen to some politicians? I won't say that I'm referring specifically to Hillary Clinton.
wait a minute. you have four dogs AND a pot bellied pig??
what's weird to me is that I just recently was told we have little bugs that live on our eyelashes and I really wasn't sure it was true. So it is huh? CRAZY.
Sorry I posted on this blog page about your dog..I'm a kid that grew up in the 70's and don't know how all this *^%^*& works! I'm replying to...one of your archived pages that came up when I googled to find info on the Levi jingle....
"Levi's song circa 1970 something
My brother and I used to travel around the neighbourhood singing this Levi's jingle to our neighbour's parents. We actually used to get requests!!
I'm going to ask him if he wants to go back to our old hood for a reunion tour. Here are the lyrics as best as I can remember them (I searched for them on Google but couldn't find them...but I'm pretty sure these are right):
Bought a pair of Levi's
They've really been around
I've taken them camping
And I've laid them on the ground
They've come with me to parties
And they've climbed up a tree
Oh they've been to school so often
They're nearly smart as me
And after years and years of wearing
My Levi's in and out
I couldn't help but notice
That the knee wore out
So I sewed on a patch
A flower here and there
And they looked so good again
I could take them anywhere
I'm using them as cutoffs now
And flying in the air
Oh I really think it's time
That I bought another pair
You can live in Levi's!! (YAH!) The YAH at the end is VERY important...it makes the whole song.
Anybody else remember this jingle?? You'd have to be over 30 and from Canada (or the States maybe...don't know)"
Yes I know this..and I think you and your brother and my kids who I've brain washed over the years..
are the only other people who know this great tune! (I'm old enough to actually remember the commercial!) I myself have looked everywhere I even looked on the Levi site and every Jingle site and nothing so you are the only person in the WORLD who has anything on this great little jingle! And for that I am grateful...I was beginning to think I made it all up! I see you are young like my kids...did your parents brain wash you too? And you are right... the YAH at the end is VERY important!
Edie
YAH!
He had Demon wha?!?
I'm glad Cha-ly is feeling better.
:)
hahahaha. potbelly.
yeah i hear demons are bad this time of year.
I didn't know Charlie was a pig!
*smirky smile*
Oh, honestly, how can a pet store employ someone who can't tell a pig from a dog?
I'm glad he's doing a lot better!
I say let potcake eat cake!
dont potbelly pigs eat whatever?
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