Happy Birthday Delta!
My grandson is one month old today.
We are preparing for fireworks around here. I have spoken with the behaviorist and we are trying a different situational medication. While OH felt the other medication was helping, I wasn't seeing it. We were also both observing a latent lethargy that would kick in about 6 to 8 hours after dosing and last until about 24 or so hours past dosing.
The new medication is something of a trade off. It is likely to make her more sedated, but can be re-dosed every 6 hours, so should wear off sooner. We gave her the first dose tonight because of storms in the area and the likely hood of locals getting an early start on the fireworks. There have already been some, but fortunately few and far between.
She threw up her supper, but then re-consumed it crunching on bones which were thrown up in the process. I'm not sure if the med made her ill, or she failed to chew her dinner properly in the first place.
I got ready to take Sky out for a short walk after Jeopardy and Sirius indicated she wanted to go too. Since storms are in the area, and it is pretty warm out, I opted to take her along. I occasionally felt a passing mist sized bit of water hit my arm, but the sun stayed out and the breeze was pretty nice. Sirius had a couple of times where she seemed to be regretting her decision to come along, but quickly recovered and continued trotting along.
We did have a bit of a sticky situation at a couple of points. We encountered a small off leash dog by a yard. Owners came out to retrieve small dog and in the process let out their mellow staffy. Mellow staffy managed to place herself right smack in the middle of my two dogs. Think hot dog inside of husky lab mix and mystery mutt bun. I kept the leashes loose and tried to get my two to back up. Owner came over to retrieve her dog, naturally bending over the group of dogs with Sirius being closest to Owner.
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Sirius informed Owner rather politely that she was not comfortable.
At that point, any leaving her leash loose was out of the question as I had to try and extricate her from the proximity of Owner trying to get her dog. Downside of Sirius' grumbling, meant Sky's level of discomfort went up. Sky is generally the one most likely to jump on and correct a dog that she feels is too close and not being properly polite. Sky did eventually get a bit of a snark in at staffy, but just as Owner managed to be removing staffy from the area. Owner was apologizing profusely the entire time this was all going on. Once staffy was removed, we still had to deal with the original smaller dog, who had apparently gotten more brave and was now delaying our departure. Like staffy, small dog was not aggressive in the least, but my dogs weren't happy about being sniffed.
Not too long after leaving small dog and staffy we encountered yippy small, white, fluffy dog, and bulldog that throws himself against the fence. I have been working with each dog separately to walk in the grassy median past this house with me between the dogs. Last time I had both dogs together, this didn't go very well. Having just come off of the earlier encounter, I wasn't very confident that the plan would fly. However, both dogs went past beautifully. Sirius initially tried to head towards the fence, but then went to the street side of Sky, which meant I just had to make certain I kept my leg in line with Sky's head to keep her from dodging in front of me.
Both dogs are snoozing now.
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Grammy to Sky and Sirius, who came to live with me, stole my heart, and changed my life forever as I took over their care and learned how to be a dog owner.