Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Does Roscoe see ghosts?

Funny chick in CA says her dog does.
http://www.teamsmalldog.com/blog/index.html
Her dog sees dead people in the agility ring at dog shows. He's all crazy, monkey pants high at home and at dog class, but at trials..... he sees dead people. Stops in the middle of a great run, looks off at something..............dead people?..........then worry, worry, worry. He sounds like dogs I know. Dogs I know well. Dogs whose names might be Spur or maybe Roscoe. I know them - well. Not sure Spur sees dead people. I think he hears them in his head............."watch out, little buddy, that tippy thing might bite you!".......or they say......."that bar thing you jump over might fall down and whack you in the head"......but, that doesn't happen much any more. It did yesterday when I tossed his ball and it landed under a jump. Jump bar fell down on his head. But, I don't think he heard voices for long. He quckly grabbed his ball and kept going. He recovers, now. No voices, no dead people? Spur's head is free of unnecessary stimuli?

Roscoe, he sees dead people and hears voices. Maybe not dead people, he maybe just sees images and circus freaks and black dogs coming to get him, but maybe not dead people? He sees a black dog and he thinks about death. His own, it happened once, nearly dead-by-black-dog. I think his meds help him, they quiet his mind, less chatter going on in there, his vets at Tufts call it unnecessary stimuli. That's what we hope to quiet with the clonidine. Unnecessary stimuli. Perhaps keeping him from going into his corner and sharpening his knife or doing his rosary. Or hearing voices from dead people? Hopefully.

Yes, he has vets at Tufts. Not just Dr. Dodman, Dr. Ogata, too. Roscoe has multiple vets looking out for him. He's special.

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