Update on Holly

Holly is looking good Jazzi. I’m glad to hear her initial health problems appear to be over and done with and everything is going well now. It’s good to know you are getting her used to a car harness, very sensible, safe for Holly and safe for you too. ChoCho loves hers, it means she is going out in the car, which she absolutely loves. I like it too, it means I won’t get stopped and fined 200 euros for having a dog loose in the car.:lol:

Thank you kindly!

I tested out the new ip cam, while dashing to the PO just now. I stood at the bus stop (timed it so it was nearly due), and she did bark initially, while I called out to her via the mobile, and then after finishing in the PO and standing at the return bus stop, was pleased to see she’d settled down.

Though she had pooed though the bars of the run, as per norm!

I had thought of the harness because though she will get into the dog carrier initially, she does make a fuss, and refuses to get back in afterwards! I needed to sort her out as we will be doing weekly trips to puppy class, and whenever we go to the vets.

Try feeding her in there jazzi we gave Betty a Kong to get the food out of to get her to be quiet on trips don’t have to do it now as she got the idea pretty fast.

The car harness is much safer than a carrier Jazzi, both for Holly and you. An emergency stop means she won’t be thrown off the seat. As you know it is the law here that dogs must be restrained in the back of a vehicle, and in my personal opinion a very sensible law too.

We have an estate car and the dogs travel in the back on an old sleeping bag. They are tethered on leads fixed to the luggage tie down points, and that not only keeps them safe in the event of a collision but also keeps them under control when we open the rear hatch. When we go on holiday though the luggage goes in the boot and the dogs travel on the back seat with their leads attached to the headrests…

Very sensible Barry. We have restrainers, like short leads that plug into the seat belt. I have no problem with them if I am sat in the back seat with the dog, but when alone I worry that if I had to do an emergency stop the sudden jolt would choke the dog since the clip is attached to the collar.

Holly is a real cutie Jazzi :slight_smile:
Good news that she is well and thriving.

Holly is looking a lovely little fluff ball Jazzi :smiley:

The third pic looks like she is talking to you :smiley:

That little face is adorable.
Please give her some hugs from afar!

What a little sweetheart she is Jazzi.
How old is she now, I can’t remember?

Thank you all for your kind comments.

She is 16 weeks old today (4 calendar months on the 23rd!)

When she is up and about, and jumping up at me, or where she shouldn’t be, she looks tall. But when asleep on the floor, she looks tiny. Especially when she’s curled up. I often get down on the floor and give her huge hugs. Sometimes she gets excitable, but often she just keeps dozing.

This evening I tried to eat sausages and scrambled egg, and she just kept barking and jumping up at the plate. Had to be really firm with her, but sometimes I just hold up my hand, palm facing outwards and don’t speak, and she’ll often go quiet. But grumbles as she lies down. (Oooh mummy is cruel, depriving her of tasty sausages and scrambled egg!)

She’s still dozing now, and did her poo whn we got back from the walk about 8, so hope she will still sleep through, but if she wakes up, I simply take her bed into my room, down beside me, and hope for the best.

Sounds like she is getting you trained a treat. :lol:

You ought to keep a look out for her little baby teeth dropping out anytime now.
I have a kept a milk tooth from each of my lot. :slight_smile:

True Mups, but at least she sleeps most of the night in her run, so it’s not like it’s all night.

About 11 ish I put a coat over my dressing gown and took Holly outside (still in my slippers), got her on the grass, and she did a long wee. Small steps, but getting there.

That’s good Jazzi :slight_smile: you could mark the ‘wanted behaviour’ with a treat and lots of praise and add a queue word, I say ‘be clean’. Timing is important here.
Repeat this enough times and Holly should eventually ‘be clean’ on demand when you give her the queue word.

Isn’t it wonderful when they start to get the idea.
Well done Holly!

I usually just say good boy go pee-pee/poo-poo! :slight_smile:

Oh God, the amount of times I say to her ‘Holly, go wee’, ‘Holly go poo’. Numerous times. But more often than not she is too interested in people, push chairs, children, cars, paper bags blowing in the wind, the fox in the nearby allotment, joggers. She will stand on her hind legs like a meerkat, wanting to see something/someone! She’s Comical, really.

Aah, what a joyful innocence Jazzi, oh to be young and and excited by every day sights still.
Everything is new and exciting and it’s good she is happy to explore, rather than being a shy little girl who hides behind your legs at the sight of anything new.

My Gertie is scared of certain noises. Loud sounds upset her.
The sound of the heater/demister turned full on in the car makes her try to hide, she can’t bear it. She’s the same with the hairdryer, which makes drying her after a bath tricky. Lorries clanging and rattling as they pass her on walks upsets her too.

Been to the vets again this afternoon! She has been sick a lot, and whimpering, and still diarrhoea, so I phoned. Reception said pop her back in.

Didn’t have to wait long, but I weighed her and disappointed she had gone down from 3.2 (beginning of this month) to 2.6. Treatment today was three injections. Anti sickness, anti acid, and an antibiotic. We are back tomorrow at 11 for an xray to rule out obstruction or foreign body. If she is no better, or shows signs of dehydration, then they will start iv fluids, more treatment and possibly blood tests.

When I agreed for keeping her in straightaway I was told she’d be on her own all night, with a check at 10pm, then not till about 7.30am. So I agreed to the injections first. She had a good slug of water there, but not drinking much here, and I have noticed her urine is quite concentrated.

She squealed with the second injection so she took her to the back for a nurse to hold her, warning the third one was worse. On her return I asked, did she squeal? Yes, I was told, and she squirted diarrhoea straight out! Which the poor nurse had to clean up.

I am exhausted. Sat down lunchtime with my main meal and didn’t take a mouthful! Clean up diarrhoea. Go into bathroom, pull out the wheeled storage next to the sink to get to the pile of vomit (which went straight down the loo). Pull out stuff from beside my bed to get to another little pile. Pull out the bed from the crate to clean up in there. Clean up the little pile on kitchen carpet. Clean some of her bedding and throw it in the washing machine.

Put plate in oven and make a fresh cup of tea. Sit down and feel like crying.

I feel for you Jan, what a distressing time you are both having and the poor little mite must be really fed up with being ill too.

Sending you both a big ((((hug)))) and hoping (again) that you get a diagnosis and resolution to her problems before much longer…