Happy Howlaween!!

I tried to find all of Roscoe's past costumes, but I know I am missing some. There was the flower pot one, which I loved. Can't find that one, darn it. My files are NOT organized!!

Sponge Bob Roscoe Pants

The Spider

BarRoscoBama

Harry Potter

The Clown

The Drag Queen Clown

Roscoe P. Coltrain, the sherrif

Biker Roscoe

Some videos

Our on line course homework. And the trial from yesterday.



Darn, no double Q because he went around that jump. I must remember to manage every SINGLE obstacle, LOL!!



Miss Colby's ultrasound Friday showed nothing. I figured that would happen. So, we are trying a round of antibiotics in case she has a developing kidney infection. Specialist said we should notice a difference after the weekend. Huh, no different. We also ran a urine to check for possibly cushings disease. Waiting for the results of that today. It is sure a conundrum. I DO think she is drinking more. I feel bad for her. I feel bad for us. It is very tiring.

Still not much sleep around here

We ran the blood tests and oddly she has a very high BUN. That is one of the kidney values. Curious thing, though, because everything else including the other kidney value AND her urine specific gravity are normal. Which means, I guess, not kidney disease. One thing would be dehydration. Hmmm, I think she is actually drinking more than normal lately. Or some sort of intestinal thing and the vet asked if I noticed dark, tarry stools or blood in her stools. Nope, normal stools. It isn't making much sense, so we are off today for an abdominal ultrasound. Hopefully, some answers.
She is STILL shaking and whining and pawing at us for attention. She wants in our laps constantly and it is extremely annoying. She barely settles or sleeps. This from a dog who was sleeping most of the day and certainly all night. She's 13 years old, old dogs sleep a lot. Now we barely make it 4-5 hours with her taking some xanax at night. :(
My vet also questioned her progressive retinal atrophy diagnosis as she could find no record of that in her files. This is a new vet who bought out my previous vet. I called the eye doctor we say in 09 and sure enough no diagnosis of PRA. She was diagnosed with iris atrophy. NOT something that causes them to go blind, just an old age symptom that can affect their eye sight. I found my handouts from my visit and sure enough I was given the PRA handout. ????? Rich and I both agree she is going blind and it has progressed a lot the last couple of months. So, my vet now says perhaps another visit with the eye doctor as maybe something else is going on. She bumps into things now if we leave something around the house where it wasn't before, like the vacuum, and she has trouble finding my hand with a treat in it when we are out on our walks. I asked our friends who walk with us and they all agree they notice her seeing less and less. It is all very odd.
Is this shaking and whining behavior, senility, or is she sick? Why the high BUN number? I need some answers along with some sleep!

Ran some tests

The vet wasn't sure about her back. It seemed like maybe she is sore on her back where ribs meet abdomen, but it is really hard to know. Our gut feeling is that she might be a LITTLE back sore, but most of this is behavioral. Senility? Worry because of her loss of sight? Combination of the two, three things? We gave her Xanax last night so we could sleep. That worked until 3:00, but then she paced and shook, so I tried sleeping on the couch with her.........again. We slept....some. I think the Xanax worked some, but it didn't last. 

This morning, the pacing and whining and shaking again. I decided to try the Xanax. Didn't work at all, that I could tell. I gave just a bit less, so maybe she needs more? She seems happy and active and not really very back sore on our walk this morning. In fact, running around quite nicely. It is just so hard to know. I wish they could talk. We will hear about the blood tests later today.

 I love the fall morning light and this little sparrow was on top of a big mound of dirt. Looking like "King of The Mountain!"

 The cows are enjoying the back pasture again.

 Big Daddy is back.

 Damn, he is big!!! Although his head seems small compared to his body??

 

Another dog on drugs???

Poor Colby. Poor us. Little Miss Colby is having a melt down and we think it is because she is losing what little remained of her eyesight. She has cataracts and retinal atrophy and manages to get around OK, but more and more we see her struggling with seeing much at all. We are lucky our walks are on mowed paths so she stays on the path and can manage pretty well. But, around the house she gets nervous. Nervous about what I am not so sure. The other dogs running into her? The remote left on the couch and she lands on it when she gets up there? 

She is whiney and needy and paces and shakes a lot these days. And sleeping? Well, none of us are sleeping much. She sleeps about 3 hours, then wakes up and gets nervous. Shakes and paces and has had some accidents on the rug. It is the rug we bought cheap from Home Depot and it has a mat with a membrane, so it is a rug we expected some accidents, but this is starting to happen every night. So, we started putting her in an x-pen. That worked for about 4 nights, then she got upset. Scratching, whining, and none of us sleep through that. The last two nights one of us has slept on the couch with her. That's not much fun.

So, today I call the vet. I think she needs some medical help. Some anti-anxiety medication to help settle her down. Heck, if I lost nearly all my sight I think I might need some help. Sucks.......

Halloween soon!

This was on facebook and I just HAD to save it!

Not sure what to do with Roscoe this year. Must come up with a good costume.

Thanks Pepe'!

Roscoe, got it again!

P-U!!!! This little buggar was getting into our fully fenced yard, that also has electric wire all along the top, but it was squeezing in tiny little gaps that even Roscoe wouldn't try. We thought we had all those gaps tightened up, so now we think perhaps he/she is climbing the hydrangea plant and getting over? The one area we don't have electric fence along the top because it was burning the plant and we love that plant. After the offending event it hid in the window well. Rich tried to get it out this morning by hosing it, but nope the little buggar decided to just take just a nap. So, he left it a ramp. Recharging, I suppose!!! Awesome. 

I guess I will be cutting back that hydrangea and continuing the electric wire on that section. I don't know where else it is getting in. And, WHY??? We have a huge property with a lot of lawn for it to get grubs, OUTSIDE our fenced area!!!! I have a lot of candles going in the house right now, but the spray probably got on our grass and I was going to mow today. That is just going to disperse it even more!! OI!!! That is if it actually does decide to leave today and I CAN get out there to mow. The dogs are having to potty out front this morning. Damn it!