Last night, Margot was INSANE!!! I don’t know what got into her, but she went non-stop at a million miles per minute from the time I got home from work until we finally put her to bed around 10:30 p.m. Usually, she has what we call “crazy puppy time” where she’ll run at full throttle for about an hour or so, but then she eventually sputters out and takes about a half-hour nap. Lately, she’s been going through the crazy puppy time/nap time cycle about twice every evening before finally going to bed. Last night, however, she took only one little 10-minute disco nap before she was up and running around the house again. She was an absolute terror! She kept picking on Sam and trying to get her to play, but of course Sam wanted none of that. She also kept getting into the laundry basket and shoe basket. I swear, I probably used half a can of that spray that repels cats and dogs. I had a lot of house cleaning and photo editing that I was hoping to get done last night, but I seriously couldn’t let Margot out of my sight ALL night long. Like I said, I don’t know what got into her, but I REALLY hope she got it all out of her system last night.
In other news, I’m starting to worry about Jocie. She’s my oldest dog, a Border Collie/Golden Retriever mix , who is around 12 years-old now. I’m trying not to be a Nervous Nelly, which I kind of have been ever since we went through all those medical emergencies with Lexie a few months ago; however, my gut is telling me that something really isn’t right with Jocie lately. Well…let me rephrase that. Something hasn’t been “right” with Jocie for many years, as she is referred to as my goofball and has many hilarious little personality quirks, including an OCD eating ritual that you’d have to see to believe. What I mean, though, is that she’s been keeping to herself a lot more than usual lately, and what worries me the most is that she’s not eating well. It’s been almost three days since I’ve seen her eat a whole bowl of dog food. We’ve gotten her to eat a few dog biscuits here and there, but not a whole meal. So, last night Justin went out and bought Jocie some canned dog food in gravy, which she usually LOVES. However, I was only able to get her to eat two bites of it, and that is NOT like Jocie.
I’ve noticed that she’s got what appears to be some kind of a little growth or maybe a sty on her left upper eyelid. It’s been there for a while, though, and never seemed to cause her any problems. Within the last month, however, from time to time she’ll have a build up of green mucous in that eye. After I clean it out, her eye looks fine. It’s not red or anything, but the green mucous will build up again within a day or two. I know I need to take her to see Dr. Ellis, but I’m terrified of what it will end up costing, as I’m now thousands of dollars in debt over Lexie’s surgeries. The Nervous Nelly in me is also worried that the little “sty” might actually be a cancerous tumor or something. I know that ignoring the problem won’t make it go away, but I honestly cannot afford any sort of medical treatment right now. I can’t even afford this vacation we’re going on next week! I actually tried to back out of the trip shortly before Lexie died because I knew I wasn’t going to have any extra money to spend while we’re there, but at that point it was too late to get a refund.
Anyway, I’ve got a lot of antibiotics at my house that Lexie never had the chance to take, so I think I’m going to try giving Jocie some of those for a week or so. Hopefully, that will take care of the problem. If not, I guess I’ll just have to bite the bullet and take her to the vet after we get back from vacation. I swear, these dogs are going to give me a heart attack and/or cause me to be homeless before I’m 40.
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