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Monday, February 28, 2005
My Poor Puppy
I feel like such a bad mom. Phoenix is our adopted walking medical problem. She has horrible allergies, bladder stone problems and she can’t see out of her right eye. She gets allergy shots, takes six pills a day and gets eyedrops twice a day. Other than her health issues, she’s really the perfect dog. Friendly, cute, smart and she has excellent hang time on her jumps; which, of course leads us to tonight’s problem.
Earlier today, the window guy was supposed to come out and replace our leaky kitchen window. Again, he did nothing, but that’s another story. Anyway, Leigh-Ann cleaned the sliding glass door, to make the house purtier. Tonight, when I took the little dogs out, Cricket wanted to come back in early. It was cold outside, so I closed the door after her. Phoenix was wandering around, exploring the exciting dirt and rocks in the back yard. A couple minutes passed, so I started to go towards the door to see if she was on the patio and wanted in. I was about three feet from the door when I saw her run toward the door and leap in the air, to jump over the track. What happened was like what you see in cartoons - she jumped up and smashed her face against the glass, then bounced backwards. I guess the glass was too clean for her.
She didn’t cry or wobble or anything. She ran up the stairs perfectly fine and jumped around waiting for her cookie. Leigh-Ann looked at her pupils, but her eyes are so screwed up that it’s hard to tell what’s going on with them. She’s been acting pretty normally; snoozing, resting, sleeping and chewing on a bone. She seems okay, but I keep seeing her hit the glass. It’s so sad.
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