Trouble Tuesday - Poor Phod

Dear Pals,

You know I am the best dog I can be. I try very had to make my people happy and keep them safe. Lady also says I am a big suck-a-bear.

Imagine the horror I felt on Sunday, when Man noticed I was limping. I let Lady fully examine my leg. Man felt it was my ankle that was sore. They decided I needed ice.  I tried to look very sad so they would leave me alone, but it didn't work. I did get a lot of pets. Lady chuckled at how my 'resistance' was. She says I am even gentle in it.

I thought the ice was going to be the worst of it, but then Man said, "no ball for a couple of days."

I am now officially the saddest boy ever. 

Poor Phod

First: People asked what was up with Phod's ears. It seems my boy has some sort of environmental allergies as he is getting gunky and itchy ears. It is not in deep so it is not an infection. As the kennel didn't clean them, they got very dirty looking and itchy. We have them almost all cleared up again.

Second: Phod's long weekend did not get off to a good start. On Friday night, when we got home from work we took the pups out to play. Phod 'twisted' his ankle while playing.

We noticed when he was 3 legged dogging

"Really Man, it is ok, I can still play ball."

"Do you really have to check it?"

Limping back to the house

It didn't seen serious enough to rush to the vet so we iced it and rested it for the weekend, neither are things he enjoyed.

"I hate this."

"It is fine, I can totally play ball."

While he was very sad to miss out on walks and playing fetch (we did let him carry Precious out once per day), the next day he had very little limp and by Monday he didn't appear to be limping at all. We are slowly allowing more exercise in and are monitoring how he does.