August 20th Vet check up and Vacine Day

VET CHECK UP AND VACCINATIONS 

Infectious Canine Hepatitis is a viral disease which affects the liver, kidneys, eyes and lungs of a dog.  It is spread by contact with saliva, urine, faeces, blood or nasal discharge of infected dogs. The urine of an infected dog can be infectious for up to a year, and the virus can survive in the environment for many months.

Signs can vary from slight fever to sudden death. Other signs include loss of appetite, pale gums, conjunctivitis, coughing, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea.  The disease can develop very quickly and sadly there is no specific treatment; however vets will try and alleviate the signs and dogs can sometimes survive with intensive supportive treatment.

Canine Parvovirus
Distemper
Leptospirosis

and

Kennel Cough - a little squirt up the nose.
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Its been a very busy few days, Oscar has been very good, in fact better than we anticipated/ Apart from one or two accidents in the house he is pretty much going to the toilet outside.

We used the programme of taking him outside on an hourly basis to the same place in the garden and up to now its going very well.

At night he sleeps in his crate and seems reasonably happy to go inside and goes straight to sleep. He wakes around 5.30 am most mornings.  This is when I take him outside he has a wee and a poop and then he comes back in for his breakfast.  I will have to pause here and he has found something to chew that is not his.
So we are quite happy that all is going well, but it is obvious that he needs more exercise than he can get in the house.

Today is the first time Oscar has been outside, other than the garden.  He is due his 2nd round of vaccine and then after 1 week he can go out and mix with other dogs.  The car is all prepared with seat covers and safety harness

The car journey went well apart from Oscar wanting to see everything around him he was calm, and pretty laid back about the trip.

At the vet he behaved himself quite well. He got a full check over, weight, heart, lungs and tummy,  teeth and nail. His teeth look good and his weight is good.  His ears however are full of muck and something creeping around.  The vet cleared out his ears, they were so full of black yuk. Hopefully he will respond better when I call him. But I think he will still have selective deafness. I cleaned his ears out again on the evening and more black muck came out, something to watch for.

He slept all the way home in the car, the effects of the injections.

So we have 7 days and then he will be out in the wide world. We can't wait.