mouth watering

to get bailey to focus for a picture, i have to tempt her with mouth watering, tasty treats.

wait, let me get a little closer. see? literally, mouth watering. BOL

until we meet again my friends-

stressful days

the past few days have been pretty stressful here at casa chihuahua. another aftereffect of bailey’s fall, that i’ve never posted about, is that she drools. but not cute little spittle. it’s more like thick loogies that hang like shoestrings from her little mouth. these drooling periods come & go and vary in length but this last one was pretty bad, lasting 3 days! these episodes change her personality, she goes into a depression, she doesn’t eat or drink, she gets the chills, and an added worry is that if she doesn’t eat, she can’t take her anti-seizure medication (because i put her medicine in her food).

the drooling finally started to subside yesterday and she was able to eat her dinner and drink her water. hopefully she will continue to improve today because she needs to get her strength back.

until we meet again my friends-

love note

bailey had been napping on my lap and when she got off, i noticed she had left me a little love note; a perfectly shaped heart... of drool! BOL
thank you, bailey. i love you too.

until we meet again my friends-

drool happens

does your fur baby drool when tempted with a tasty treat?

when i zoom in a little closer, you can see bailey's mouth is beginning to water as she anticipates her treat. (doc said to put her meds in liverwurst and bailey thinks that is absolutely, without a doubt, the best thing in the whole wide world!)

until we meet again my friends-

a visit to the vet because of natural balance

in may, we reviewed natural balance limited ingredient white fish & sweet potato formula grain-free wet dog food. my concern with the product was the amount of fish bones that we found in the food. when i called natural balance to tell them about it, they apologized and sent me a coupon for a free package of treats. they were supposed to get back to me after their investigation but it's been 2 months and i haven't heard a thing from them.
but i digress. the point of this post is to discuss the aftermath of that product review.

a couple of weeks after our review, bailey started drooling, a lot. it would bubble, and it would drip. it got so bad that i made a vet appointment to see what was up.

doc felt that she had eaten something that injured her throat. he asked if she might have eaten something she shouldn't have or if i had changed her diet lately. when i told him about all the bones i had found in natural balance limited ingredient white fish & sweet potato formula grain-free wet dog food, he knew that had to be the cause of the damage to her throat. he said the abrasions got infected and the bacteria caused the drooling. he sent us home with an antibiotic and a pain killer because he said she was probably in quite a bit of pain, though she never did complain.

i feel terrible that i didn't notice the bones in the first tub of food but i didn't know i was supposed to look for bones. i thought quality control had that covered. who knows how many bones passed through her delicate little throat, cutting and scraping it as she swallowed. my poor little baby girl.

here is a reminder of the bones i found in one 2.75 ounce tub of natural balance limited ingredient white fish & sweet potato formula grain-free wet dog food! if you purchase this food for your furbaby, please inspect it carefully. i wouldn't want your baby to end up at the vet too.

thankfully the infection cleared up and the drooling has stopped. however, the trust i had in natural balance is gone. i will not be purchasing, or reviewing, any more of their products.

until we meet again my friends-