I can’t get the damn photos I took with my phone at the vet to load.
Kendal is back to his normal, friendly, counter surfing self. The vet took a pee sample. While the protein level is a bit elevated it has dropped significantly from where it was when Kendal was sickest. We await the blood sample serology to confirm (or not) the lepto diagnosis. In the meantime we continue the doxycycline regime for another eight or so days.
It is very good to have Kendal back.
I have owned Achilles for almost eight years and am still astounded by how he came to me. A friend involved in Labrador Retriever rescue told me about a dog at a shelter she pulled dogs from. He was typed as an Australian Cattle Dog mix and knowing that I had ACDx Stella, she thought I might want to foster him.
He was picked up as a stray and his people never came for him. By the time I took him home he had been at the shelter for 363 days and probably running out of time.
Achilles is wonderful with people, which is atypical for ACDs and very easy on leash. He is undemanding, very low maintenance. He walks and trots smoothly, almost languidly. Chili runs with a fluid grace, he seems to float. His one quirk is an utter refusal to get wet. The shelter estimated his age to be six though I find it very hard to believe he would now be 13 or 14. It amazes me that he languished in the shelter for so long, almost as though fate designated him to be my, our, dog.
I am, we are, very, very blessed to have him.
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