Poor doggie

Written on 2004-01-11, at 12:28 p.m.

Ugh, my dog is very ill. I don't know if it's a stroke or what. She's inclined to keep her head tilted to the right, and her left eye won't close properly (and she's very particular about having it touched).

When we tried to feed her this morning she had a very odd way of responding. Typically, she'll sleep in my room, my father will call up "FOOD!" and she'll come running down. Today, however, my father called her, and she stood up... and that was it. She refused to move. I pushed and coaxed her a bit, until she finally moved, went into the bathroom, and jumped into the bath tub. My dog hates baths, or, at the very least, merely tolerates them. To ignore food and jump into the bath tub is about the most taboo thing my dog can do. When she finally got down, she refused to lower her head into the food bowl (even though she can easily bend down that far, as she demonstrated shortly thereafter) so my sister had to feed her by hand. My shakes while she sleeps, and....

Oi. Unfortunately, there aren't any vets open on a Sunday, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow to take her somewhere. Meanwhile, I'm going to go look up her symptoms.

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