Here’s blind Emmy, who just arrived last week from North Carolina, checking out the fridge in the welcome center. She is a delightful girl, and whirls and dances when she knows breakfast or dinner is coming her way. We concluded she really isn’t deaf … she hears all kinds of sounds (as in, "they’re fixing my supper!"). Her issue is sometimes getting a fix on where the sound is coming from, so it’s more of a directional thing than actual hearing.
Alayne took her to our vets in Helena today because she’s had two really bad cases of diarrhea and vomiting since arriving … yet punctuated by days of no problems at all. The intermittent nature of this rules out a lot of the usual suspects, including parvo, thank heavens!
We know she had a horrific case of worms in North Carolina — the vet there said Emmy had "every kind of worm" — and was treated for it. Our vets here think that if she had a worst-case infestation, it’s possible some came back, so we wormed her again today and will give her another dose in two weeks. We’ve already had her on the drug metronidazole for general intestinal ailments for the past two days. Hopefully between the wormer and the metro we’ll get this licked.
Meanwhile, Emmy continues to hang out at the welcome center, where we have her in isolation for two weeks. She is just the sweetest thing, and springs to life when she realizes I’ve arrived to see her. Emmy starts thumping her tail and then leaps into the air — in my general direction — to greet me. Then she’ll bow down like she wants to play, and race around in circles. This dog has sure come a long way from the frightened creature Mika first wrote us about in that original email.
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