[pyrnet] Mellow, Valentino on Cats, and

[Rhonda Collins <rhonda@castlepublishing.com>]

>  Valentino
> just looks at him with a puzzled look on
> his face. I think he thinks this dog is a strange looking kind of cat.
> As
> two of my three cats are about the same size as the boston.
> Marie, Valentino and angel Beau


LOL. Sometimes you DO wonder just what goes through their minds at things
like that.


> He passed away
> on Sunday, March 3rd and we left immediately for WI.  On =
> Monday morning when we arrived at the house Sasha headed for the
> den.  =
> She emerged immediately looking a little confused and walked down the
> =
> hall to his bedroom, which is where he passed away (she had never gone
> =
> in the room before).  She made a brief stop in the room, walked out
> to =
> my husband nuzzled his hand and laid down under the kitchen table with a
> =
> large sigh.  During the following days that we were there she never
> set =
> foot down the hall.  She knew he was gone and would never be coming
> =
> back.

Caryl, I'm sorry about your father-in-law. Dogs are truly so
perceptive.


> just got back
> from the vet with mellow.  she took xrays and its swollen. he's
> still unable to put any weight on it.  she took a test for lymes
> disease but 
> she doesnt think its that, the test is just a precaution.  for now
> she is 
> calling it a sprain and gave him rimadayl (sp) and he has to keep very
> quiet, 
> not easy with a big goofball baby.  for now its a sit and wait and i
> do mean 
> SIT coz its going to be a long haul trying to be quiet.  
>  thanks for the concern.

Hopefully it is just a sprain, but sometimes a sprain can hurt worse than
a break. Luck to you on keeping him quiet. They're not like kids, for
whom you can turn on the tv to keep them occupied. Hopefully he'll be
100% again before long.