Grey's doing ok at the vets

Just heard that Grey is recovering well from his surgery. Hopefully can get the monkey back tomorrow. Vets now think that he has some kind of trauma to his shoulder that is causing instability. We'll know more tomorrow.

Night, night, monkey.

Poor Grey got bitten

We had a bit of a scary end to Friday evening. We were meeting up with Grey's springer friend for a beach run. We've not seen them in ages. We parked up and R was chatting with a friend by a car. The car had dogs in. Grey and I approached the car and then out of nowhere a male black lab shot out from behind the car and went straight for Grey. It was a horrid snarling noise, Grey was screaming, all the humans were reaching in trying to seperate the dog. Grey's front left leg was bitten. We got the dogs separated. Grey was paniced and was backing out of his collar. I was struggling to keep hold of him and didn't want him to slip his collar next to the road and the commotion. We stopped the traffic and went to the other side of the road to check him over. He settled down and we thought he had just a scrape on his inner left front leg. He was fine with his springer friend.

He got up fine on Saturday and I took him straight out to see if he'd be ok with some positive experiences with other dogs. He played fine and had a nice run with a couple of labradoodles. But by the evening he started to limp and his leg swelled. He became poorly puppy and was generally sorry for himself.

We took him to the vets today. He's got an infection under the skin and a slight temperature. He's on Metacam and some antibiotics. He's supposed to have rest for 3 days. He seems much better already, so not sure it will be easy to get to the end of 3 days rest.

More on his teeth

We had a trip to the vets yesterday, which he gets all very excited about. They're lovely with him which is great. We had a look at his teeth and the lower adult canines are coming through and already are impacting on his upper palette. The vet is going to get in touch with the canine dental specialist to see what's to be done next. The removal of adult canines would be a major op and quite serious as they form part of the jaw. I'm unsure if the acrylic plate will manage the job on the other hand, because his jaw is misaligned rather than just the position of the teeth. So would it manage to push the canines forwards enough to clear the upper front teeth? We'll hopefully hear more this week. Something has to be done though, the adult teeth are much longer and they could pierce the upper palette in a much more serious way than previously.

Other than that we came away with ear drops for a mildly irritated ear. And he weighed in at 24KG. So now he's 25 weeks old he's had a lull in weight gain and dropped down a kilo in ratio to his age in weeks.

We went for a walk in the nearby countryside to the vets. Grey met cows for the first time. He was cool with them until they all drifted up to say hello. He was on the lead so after a quick bark at them he was keen to make a swift exit. I lost my balance and was pulled down a grassy bank through a cow pat. The joy of having a big dog that pulls.

Wee wee wee!

Grey stood on his hind legs, propped himself up on the chaise with his front paws and had a wee on the corner of it while looking at the cat. Huh? And I thought toilet training was going better the last week.

In other news, we took a trip to the vets again. He's had a bit of a cough and I wanted to have them look at his new teeth. The cough is nothing to worry about and is probably caused by his op to have his teeth out. We're supposed to give him Benylin. His teeth are still not through enough to comment on or plan what to do next. The vet suggested we cut his eye lashes down to see if that helps clear up his sometimes gunky eyes. He does have ridiculously long eye lashes.

Nothing else hugely eventful other than to report he now weighs 22.6KG!

This evening we walked in the opposite direction along the seafront to normal as L took the car. A jack russell had a little snap at him from a safe distance. How rude!