She’s going to be fine.

We got to the vet around midnight last night, sat in the waiting room for a little while and then Princess headed in to see the vet. She was in a lot of pain for the entire car ride and lord knows how long before we actually had gotten home considering she was home by herself all day. The vet said that it was just a urinary tract infection and that she just needed the antibiotics. Now she also had a fever so that was another source of her being clingy last night. Everytime Kay went to get up she insisted on being right there. Bella typically does the same thing when she’s not feeling very well either. In the end, she’s on medication and hopefully there will be some signs of improvement.

I woke up this morning to find out that she’s not even bothering to look for wee-wee pads, she’s just going right on the floor and I assume that since she’s not feeling well that’s the source behind it. She’s still got her apetite so I assume she isn’t in a great deal of pain at the moment. She had round one of her medication this morning, she’s taking two pills twice a day for the next 10 days and that should hopefully resolve everything. I’m going to make sure she actually completes her medication for the full 10 days.

Most people don’t realize that antibiotics have set dosages for a reason. Taking only half or just not finishing them doesn’t mean you’re saving medication for the next time something flares up. It means that whatever infection you have can now fight off the medication and mutate into something completely different. Considering how expensive pets can be when it comes to the vet, I’m going to make sure she doesn’t have to go back.

She needs to be on a diet, she also needs to be a bit more mobile than she actually is. She’s supposed to be a mini dachshund but she’s 26lbs and can barely walk because of back issues. She’s never really walked around outside and this is primarily based on the fact that she was wee-wee pad trained and now she’s paying the price for it. So when the rain goes away I’m going to start walking her around the house. She likes being in the grass. Kay thinks that it’s a bad idea because she doesn’t have any flea/tick medication for her, but considering it’s low grass and she’ll be out there for maybe 3 minutes at most, just to get some cardio in of course, then I think she’ll be fine. I’ll take full responsibility if something does come up though, at least she’ll be getting the exercise that she desperately needs. Feeding her low-carb food isn’t going to do the trick, she needs to do more than jump off the couch to eat…that’s all she ever does.