There are thunderstorms about but up here on top of the ridge it's as calm and sunny as a summers day. The Post Lady stops by to say she's retiring. She introduces us to a young man with a beard who will be her replacement. After she's gone the French teacher passes by and lets slip that the Post Lady has a three packet a day habit and has received an 'unsettling' diagnosis from the hospital. How sad. Let's hope it's wrong. It may be a village of sixty seven souls but all of human life is here.
Sophie goes through the day with a number of costume changes.
Switching collars every four hours stops her from getting irritated and sore.
Under direct supervision she is allowed to go cone less.
By late afternoon all the cone changing has done nothing for those film starlet looks.
Second day in a row that a normal(ish) routine has been established. These simple little things make a dog owners day so much easier.
After Bob and Sophie have gone to bed Angus opens a bottle of wine ( Framboisiere - what a lovely name ) and toasts the Help Em Up harness as recommended by Kim at Golden Pines. This makes picking up 25 kilos of tail wagging, lying on her back, kicking her legs in the air 'diva' so much easier. Today she has walked from one end of the side courtyard to the other unaided. A small but reassuring victory.
We deal with the overnight paw licking issue by having her wear the black and the blue collars simultaneously. This keeps her head up and seems to cause her no discomfort. The plastic cone is rejected with a combination of head banging and howling. She does not get used to it.
14 comments:
Oh sad Sophie in the plastic cone. She looks like a satellite dish! This is just dreadful.
I am thinking Sophie could be the star of a new cone comparison website...
Poor Sophie - they do nothing for a girl's street cred - or hair ! Oh dear, the poor girl (and you) have got to go through all this again...
OMG -- the satellite dish comment made me snort my coffee.
Will the itching stop when the stitches are out? Let's hope so.
I don't think any dog ever can get used to the cone. Sending the darling Sophie our best wishes. She's looking brighter every day!
WOW !!! After re reading your post : a) I see Sophie's leg without a bandage and, b) She walked unaided for a short distance. AMAZING
What's a genuine diva to do when faced with questionable fashion choices? That harness is the best thing ever! When our sweetheart Molly, a yellow lab, was seriously ill near the end of her life, we had to use the towel method to get her up and hold her.....very difficult and awkward holding onto her full weight with constant worry about our grip slipping.....Sending along my best wishes to one and all at ROF.......DBH
I laughed out loud looking at the pictures and then the satellite comment. You deserve the bottle of wine. Cheers.
If yesterday's cone picture made Sophie look like a Velasquez princess, today's white cone (satellite, indeed! Hmph) makes her look like a medieval mother superior. I'm still laughing.
Maybe she could go on Saturday Night Live for a re-do of "The Coneheads".
Cone manufacturers would be stepping over themselves to secure Sophie for their ads if they only knew...G xxxlad she is walking a bit.xxx
Brilliantly observed.
The hard plastic cone somehow lends Sophie a beatific look.
This is sad news about the Post Lady.
Kim does know how to help recovering dogs...
Our postman just whizzes by on a small motorbike, anonymously...
Double soft collars...ingenious solution.
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