Vet Visits, planned and unplanned

Mila missed getting her rabies vaccine when she was in to be spayed last week. I've got an adoption lined up for her but I needed a rabies certificate to make it happen. I ran her into town Monday afternoon and got it done quickly.

This was probably the most time I've spent with Mila just one-on-one. She is so stinking cute and sweet. She doesn't even know how stunning she will be when she grows up.

Those ears couldn't be any sharper.

They look like a pair of scissors.

She's still got that innocent and clueless look.

But you can also see that she's going to
be a stunning beauty.

My second vet visit of the day wasn't exactly planned. I had taken Serena and Maya along for the ride when Mila went to get her rabies vaccine. When we got home, I let Serena out of the van and she walked around the yard looking for a place to do her business. What I saw come out was completely liquid diarrhea with a good amount of blood mixed in it so it was bright red.

Her guts had been going from bad to worse over the last few days, probably as a result of the pain meds she had been on for her leg injury and the doxycycline she was taking for Lyme. I had stopped both of those and was feeding her chicken and rice and giving her immodium, but the presence of blood took me out of my comfort zone. I put Maya and Mila in the house and put Serena back in the van and headed back to town. It took a while but bloodwork was done and it looked pretty much normal so we came home with an antibiotic for her gut and a better anti-diarrhea drug. Nothing has come out of her since she started those Monday evening.