A Dogs Life Holiday Dorset 2015

As usual we went away with the dogs and our new baby Fern, this is what we got up to.

Dogs Holiday Easter 2014

Over the Easter Holidays we booked a caravan down to do to Poole in Dorset. The plan wasn't to take the dogs, but they did end up coming, and I think they enjoyed them selves more than ever.

 

Kong Fun

Before we go to work they get a Kong.

This is a video of how mental how they go before they get it.

They only get left for 1.5 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon.

Fever, Again and Again...

This is the third time in three weeks that Angus has had Shar Pei fever, we have started keeping a journal in the hope something would stand out, we thought it was him not drinking, but today was 2 hours before I noticed him shaking. I think we caught it earlier than before as his temp was 39, we gave him metacam and arnica 30C, after 2 hours it only got up to 39.4, as before it would have got into the 40s, we also gave him some milia and water which he drank and loved. Just got to find his trigger.

Here is a video of the first sign I noticed today.

Kissing Game

Just a silly little video of Beau playing the kissing game with my husband.

Night Fever

The day I have been dreading happened on Sunday night, Angus got Shar Pei Fever. This was my first time as well.
How it started. We let Angus out at 7.45 ish and I noticed how his hocks had shrunk, yes, shrunk. After a word with the hubby we thought it was due to us not putting sudocream on the night before, the first time ever since we have had him.

11.10pm, Angus jumped off the sofa where he had been all night into his bed, no problems with that.

11.20 pm, let him out before we went to bed and called and called him, Rich had to turf him out, very strange as he usually gallops in. He was limping, still he had a wee and came in and straight to bed where he then started shaking. Oh dear, the first signs.

11.30pm, we took his temp and he was 39.1 degrees c. Rang Vet Phone who we have with the insurance and they said give it 24hours! I swiftly told them that it was fatal in 2.

11.35 pm, told rich to ring my sister and take Beau round for the night.

11.36 pm, rang the emergency vets and took him in.

11.45 pm, in the car with Angus on my lap, he sat perfectly still and yelped when Rich got him out.

12.10 am seen my the vet and a metacam injection was given as his temp was 41.

12.30 am, blood test was taken. Poor Angus had a muzzle on that was too small and they didn't have another, it just rested on his face but scrunched up his face so he couldn't see, poor thing growled at the vet, can't blame him though. I gave him cuddles and told him nice things in his ears. It took longer than thought as they couldn't find a vain in his arm so had to go in the neck. They found one and took a sample. After a long wait these were the results.  The vet said they were fine and normal, good news.

1.30 am, another temp check, 40.4, still high but going down. The vet said we could leave him there or stay, we stayed and waited for another hour. In that hour Angus had a drink and got comfy on his bed.

2.30 am, last temp check at 39.9, good news it's going down. 

3.15amAngus came back home, looked for Beau and back to bed, one more temp check at 39.8 and cream on his face for his dry wrinkles and back in bed.

9.50am, up and in the vets, my local one this time, not pei friendly but they do try. A check over and another temp check along with metacam. and he is ready to go back to sleep, me too.

12am, last temp check before he gets some food with gravy and his metacam, he licked the bowl it was that good. Beau has been brill with him letting him have the sofa and not annoying him as much.

It's now been 3 days since and Angus is back to his normal self. At least I am more prepared next time.

Jj

Lights, Camera, ACTION! - BBC

The next weekend after our audition for Channel 4 was for the BBC Sports Relief charity that they do every year. It seemed to be exactly the same as the channel 4 Superstar Dogs, but the audition was not so good. We had to go to a local pet shop that had a room to hire. It was large enough but nothing like the size of Soneleigh, it had 1 jump and an A frame.

I was the first on the list and as soon as i walked in I had to introduce me and Beau to camera. Then came a find it exercise. We had been practicing this, but I don’t think to the degree they wanted. I had to hide her toy and they placed a cloth over it. Beau had never done this before. To my surprise she did it. She found it, moved and held the cloth then picked up her toy and brought it to me. Wooo, I was soooo happy that she thought to put the find it trick, with the hold it trick. We then had the A frame. But after me telling the producer that she fell of last week, we gave it a try and decided to miss it. Then came the 1 jump. All of this was being filmed.

lastly came the interview. I always let my self down her but this was down to the producer this time. They asked for Beau to sit on me, which she has never done, she is not that sort of dog. Then they said for her to sit on a chair, the chair was a swivel chair, which is climbed and sat on, then moved, tipping the chair over. The producer asked for me to try again and Beau refused. she then asked for Beau to sit by me. Beau doesn’t do this either and has to sit as far away from me as the lead would let her, so the producer had to move the camera. All the questions were the same as the Channel 4 show and I guess I wasn’t strange or funny enough for them. 

Never mind, it was an experience I may not do again.