Sky's week ...
6/21/2009 8:35:06 PM
Poor Sky has had a traumatic week. It all started on Monday morning, I noticed at lunchtime that his right eye was bloodshot and slightly swollen, by the time we went to the vet's office in Kirkland, for his follow-up appt from having a tooth extracted ... that's another story, it wasn't looking too good. Dr Matson commented that his eye was red and swollen, I thought it was just conjunctivitis from all the grass pollen around.
That evening when I was training Sky, I noticed that it was getting worse, by the next morning Sky's eye looked awfully red and swollen. Tuesday morning I left a message at Northwest Animal Eye Specialists but they wouldn't see Sky unless he was an emergency, referred by a vet. Stephen volunteered to take Sky to our regular vet's office, Redmond Fall City Animal Hospital. He came home with a steroid/antibiotic cream an Elizabethan collar and a sad puppy.
Sky slept in our bedroom Tuesday evening and, as there was no improvement on Wednesday morning, it was my turn to take him back to the vet. Dr. Erin Maillet cleaned-up his eye and we agreed that if there was no visible improvement by Thursday morning, our next appt, she would refer him to Dr Jones At Northwest Animal Eye Specialists.
Thursday morning there was little improvement, despite having religiously administered the eye cream, so Stephen dropped Sky off as an emergency admission at Northwest Animal Eye Specialists. The first thing they did was to call Stephen right back and ask if they could give him pain meds, when I collected him this evening, Dr Jones said that on a scale of 1 -10 Sky's pain level was at least a 9 :-( When she tried to examine him, he was in so much pain that he gave himself hiccups, she had never seen this before!
To cut an already long story short, he is home with us now and is on the following medications as well as the eye ointment, which has been doubled in dosage and increased to 3 x per day:
That evening when I was training Sky, I noticed that it was getting worse, by the next morning Sky's eye looked awfully red and swollen. Tuesday morning I left a message at Northwest Animal Eye Specialists but they wouldn't see Sky unless he was an emergency, referred by a vet. Stephen volunteered to take Sky to our regular vet's office, Redmond Fall City Animal Hospital. He came home with a steroid/antibiotic cream an Elizabethan collar and a sad puppy.
Sky slept in our bedroom Tuesday evening and, as there was no improvement on Wednesday morning, it was my turn to take him back to the vet. Dr. Erin Maillet cleaned-up his eye and we agreed that if there was no visible improvement by Thursday morning, our next appt, she would refer him to Dr Jones At Northwest Animal Eye Specialists.
Thursday morning there was little improvement, despite having religiously administered the eye cream, so Stephen dropped Sky off as an emergency admission at Northwest Animal Eye Specialists. The first thing they did was to call Stephen right back and ask if they could give him pain meds, when I collected him this evening, Dr Jones said that on a scale of 1 -10 Sky's pain level was at least a 9 :-( When she tried to examine him, he was in so much pain that he gave himself hiccups, she had never seen this before!
To cut an already long story short, he is home with us now and is on the following medications as well as the eye ointment, which has been doubled in dosage and increased to 3 x per day:
- Oral antibiotics
- Oral anti-inflammatory
- Oral pain killers
The dogs have had a busy weekend, Stephen and Kohl were competing at an Agility Trial (see separate Blog) and Sky and I went up to Arlington to an obedience seminar: Sandra Ladwig "Straight Talin' Training". We weren't able to partake in any of the activities but I learnt heaps and took loads of notes. Once Sky's fully recovered he's going to be put to work
We made lots of new friends, there were 2 other poodles and I got chatting to one owner and her groomer. We've done a deal, I'm going to type up my notes for her and she's going to teach me how to clip my poodles :-) A win win situation!
startling himself so much that he left the ring, despite Stephen's best efforts to call him back 
In the next class, Sky and I stayed at the car so that we couldn't be accused of distracting 'the boys'. Although they had a good run, they didn't qualify, missing the entry to the weave poles and knocking down the penultimate jump didn't help! You
Stephen stepped over the end of the dog walk and Kohl jumped off the teeter totter. Today they did much better!! They qualified in JWW with a score of 88 and came third overall 
In STD Kohl went into the tunnel the wrong way and then wouldn't move off the table at the end of that exercise so Stephen retired him.