Other stuff

I hurt my knee running in the race last weekend.  It's better enough now that it doesn't bother me to walk, stand, do agility and other regular stuff.  But it still hurts to run.  So I am impatiently waiting for it to get better.  I'm sure this figures into my irritation over the bad parts of the agility trial.  We all have a problem now! But hopefully in another week it will be ok.

Legend has continued to be seizure free and so I cut her dose of Phenobarb again on the first of the month.  She's now at 50% of her initial dose.  We'll see how that goes.

Lyric has had only limited amounts of soft stool lately.  I have kept her on i/d and try not to go too crazy with treats and so far it seems ok.  Only a few emergency baths.

I put Zodiac back on a low dose of Rimadyl.  He seemed really reluctant to do stairs and was limping a little.  So I added it to his Tramadol and j/d.  I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes but if he tolerates it we'll continue for now.  I've never been convinced he didn't get an ulcer from it previously but I didn't have proof either way.  But this dose is a little smaller so we'll see.

I had to break down and get the horse vet out here to give Squirt a joint injection.  His bad carpal joint had flared up again and he was noticeably lame at a walk.  The day he stopped twice to rest coming in from the field I figured I better do something.  He was a lot better by the next day but he's still limping some.  She said I could also try Previcox on him and apparently the horse dose is 1/4-1/2 of the large dog pill.  Do you know how hard it is to watch and make sure a horse actually consumes a small pill?  It's tricky.  But going better. I do think pill pockets for horses might be a good idea. Seems to be helping but I am also hoping he won't need it long term since horses are so sensitive to NSAIDs.  Hopefully after a few weeks the joint injection alone will be enough to hold him for awhile.

So that's how we are doing around here.