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Freya visited the vet today and, as usual, she was petrified. This, as I have written about before, sends her heart racing and gives the impression that she has a heart murmur. Fortunately, the vet knows this and can proceed with an examination without assuming her heart is the problem. This time it was all about pain rather than pounding.
She has been shivering, off and on, since Friday. This can be a sign of a number of things in dogs. The major sign is that the dog is in pain. Mind you, another thing is a mysterious syndrome confined to small white dogs. It is called white dog shaker syndrome. Though this is usually experienced by dogs between one and two years of age, so Freya (11) really doesn’t qualify.
Given how she has trouble moving her legs when she first wakes up, we figured she was suffering with arthritis…but we were wrong.
After checking her legs, the vet ruled out arthritis. She didn’t know what the problem was and has referred her to the clinic in Nyköping so she can have a scan on her back half. Hopefully it’s just something easily fixed. Particularly as I’m off to Oslo tomorrow and do not want a repeat of what happened to Carmen.
Anyway, the vet gave us some painkillers for Freya and they had an almost immediate effect. She was suddenly back to normal…although not jumping onto the furniture. At least her tail was wagging away with its normal enthusiasm.
And that was about it for the day except for the discovery of these small black dots.
These are bits of KSP, leftover from Mello. They are sequins from her black sparkly top. If she keeps losing them at this rate it will soon be a not so sparkly top.
Oh, and I ran into the running man this morning. His name is Stefan and he regularly calls people by the wrong name, so I imagine he’ll start calling me Brian, or something similar.
