February 5, 2007

• sick dog update

  spinksy asked how Koji is doing.

  He is still alive, still ill, but is making fewer trips outside.  He sleeps a lot, threw up once yesterday, and has eaten almost nothing for three days.  He drinks water, wags his tail at us and barks at things outside about as much as usual.  If he is in pain, it doesn’t show.  His nose is cold and wet, his coat still glossy, and his eyes are bright.  If not for the bloody diarrhea and loss of appetite, and an occasional episode of trembling, we wouldn’t think anything amiss.

  I think I neglected to mention something that happened a day or two before he became ill.  I don’t know if it is related at all.  One of the cats, Buzz, had just come in from outdoors and Koji followed him onto the bed, sniffing him all over.  He even stuck his snoot under Buzz and flipped him over to smell his underside.  After a thorough going-over with his nose, Koji was salivating copiously, dripping and drooling.  Then he started licking Buzz’s fur until Buzz got fed up and fled.  Koji followed and kept harassing Buzz until I put him on his tether so he couldn’t reach Buzz.

  Later, two other cats came in from outdoors and got the all-over sniff treatment from Koji.  Neither Doug nor I  could detect any unusual scents and nothing else other than a little stickiness in their fur.  None of the cats has gotten ill, no signs of diarrhea in the litter box, and I suppose that if the mystery scent had made Koji sick it would have also done something to the cats.

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