Another Cookie Post
April/08, 2008 11:01 AM
Well, we're approaching the end of our first month with Cookie, and it's been nothing if not eventful.
She's still great, and I think we're pretty confident now that she'll be our dog for a long time to come (with no small amount of help from BarkBusters). If, that is, she doesn't bankrupt us with her various health problems.
When we first got her, the vet said she was healthy and gave her her shots. We then scheduled her "fixing" for that next week. By the time that happened, she had a fever and was moving a bit slowly. So they gave us $100 worth of antibiotics and said to come back 10 days later. When we came back, she STILL had a fever. So now we're giving her $26 more of a different antibiotic, plus an eye cream that does SOMETHING, but I'm not sure. Then, we started to notice a rancid smell coming off of her ears...$54 later, and we're working on clearing up an ear infection with ear drops.
The poor dog has clearly felt terrible most of the time we've had her. She's finally getting over her horrible sounding cough from the last week, but we're giving her pills twice a day, putting in eye cream twice a day, putting in ear drops once a day, and generally spending a lot of time and money trying to get our "$15 animal shelter adoption fee" dog healthy again.
She really is a lovely animal. She still has a few behavioral issues to work on (aggressive growling at strangers and strange animals in certain circumstances, for example), but she's quickly becoming quite the polite lady, and I'm really impressed about how well she's inserted herself into our little family.
I'm convinced, however, that she's a full-blooded Border Collie. Do a Google image search on "Blue Merle Border Collie," and the pictures that come back are pretty much our dog exactly.
I can't find a hint of Blue Heeler in her appearance.
She's still great, and I think we're pretty confident now that she'll be our dog for a long time to come (with no small amount of help from BarkBusters). If, that is, she doesn't bankrupt us with her various health problems.
When we first got her, the vet said she was healthy and gave her her shots. We then scheduled her "fixing" for that next week. By the time that happened, she had a fever and was moving a bit slowly. So they gave us $100 worth of antibiotics and said to come back 10 days later. When we came back, she STILL had a fever. So now we're giving her $26 more of a different antibiotic, plus an eye cream that does SOMETHING, but I'm not sure. Then, we started to notice a rancid smell coming off of her ears...$54 later, and we're working on clearing up an ear infection with ear drops.
The poor dog has clearly felt terrible most of the time we've had her. She's finally getting over her horrible sounding cough from the last week, but we're giving her pills twice a day, putting in eye cream twice a day, putting in ear drops once a day, and generally spending a lot of time and money trying to get our "$15 animal shelter adoption fee" dog healthy again.
She really is a lovely animal. She still has a few behavioral issues to work on (aggressive growling at strangers and strange animals in certain circumstances, for example), but she's quickly becoming quite the polite lady, and I'm really impressed about how well she's inserted herself into our little family.
I'm convinced, however, that she's a full-blooded Border Collie. Do a Google image search on "Blue Merle Border Collie," and the pictures that come back are pretty much our dog exactly.
I can't find a hint of Blue Heeler in her appearance.
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