Tuesday

Ozzy's now home, safe and semi-sound.  He's very tired, and ravenously hungry, so he eats and sleeps, which is fine with me.  He's lost a lot of weight and seems very tiny, like he was as a puppy.  Poor wee soul, he's had a very rough time of it.

They had to shave his forelegs, for the IVs, which makes him look like he's had a poodle cut on his legs.  If you look closely, or click to enlarge the photos, you can see his tiny little bones showing above his feet.  When he walks around it looks like he's wearing white Ugg boots.

After lots of love and attention from me, he settled down on the couch to get more from Alan.  Could he look more miserable and pathetic..??

I gave him some food, which he scarfed down like a starving creature, then he climbed into his big bed and conked out.

He's on an incredibly restricted diet--just the gastrointestinal dog food--for the next 30 days.  No treats, extra foods, and particularly NO GRASS.  He was so hungry this morning that I gave him more than I thought was good for him, though Alan thought he should just be able to eat as much as he wanted.  I said, "No, gorging could lead to throwing up or giving him diarrhea again."  But, since he was absolutely begging and crying for food, I called Dr B at 8:00am to ask how much is too much.  Happily (for Ozzy), he can have a can a day, if he wants (double the norm for a dog his size).  Course, eventually, when he's recovered, that will be too much, but for now, it's important to get some weight on him, and get his body back on track.

So.  He's home, though not himself.  But, with enough rest and food and care, I hope he'll be back to his normal, happy self before too long.  And another really good thing:  he actually slept through the night, and glory be, so did I..!!  Woo hoo...

Thanks to everyone for your worry and concern about Oz.  Let's hope--now his illness has been diagnosed, and his diet/food changed--that his life will now improve and he'll be a healthy wee dog from now on.

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We had a light dusting of snow overnight, and in fact it's snowing right now, though it's that "almost to cold to snow" snow:  minute, icy granules, rather than big puffy flakes.  I'm glad we don't have to drive down the mountain today; we got all our groceries and Thanksgiving perishables yesterday before we picked Oz up at the hospital, so I'm good to go.

Here's a couple of shots across the valley to the Coast Range Mountains.  Lovely light with the barest glimmer of sun shining through the clouds on the valley floor.

A closer view...

And on that note, it's time to make some chili and get the crock pot going before too much of the morning slides by.  Oh crap.  I forgot to take the turkey out of the freezer.  Nuts.  Gotta go.....