Taking care of our 4 legged babies

We believe we have low maintenance pets. Denuen, Peoopee and Jack are fairly easy. We feed them at the same time every day. They have a dog door so they can come and go out in their yard. Other than barking at the UPS man, people out walking their dogs and the garbage truck, they usually sleep during the day.

But now we are 19 days from the scheduled delivery of twin 2 legged babies. Time for the dogs to become high maintenance, right? Right. Earlier this week Peoopee had some sort of stomach bug. He didn't want his 3pm treat and was reluctant to eat his dinner at 5pm. But the next day, he was fine. That night, Denuen wouldn't eat her dinner. She actually to 36 hours to get over the bug. We were sure she was gonna have tumor that would require surgery. Nope. All better.

Then this morning, Peoopee was in obvious discomfort and wouldn't stand up on his own. His back right leg was obviously bothering him. Mike was able to get him up and downstairs and outside for a bathroom break. Mike quickly remembered a similar situation with Denuen from 3 years ago. She tore the cruciate ligament in her back right knee. She had surgery to repair it...broke the sutures...and had the same surgery with heavier sutures. The more we thought about it, the more we were sure this was going to be Peoopee's problem. We were even trying to figure out how quickly the doctors at OSU Vet School might be able to do the surgery and if Lily and Addison would cooperate and wait until he was recouperating before making their appearance into the world.

We took Peoopee to our veterinarian here in Athens. He examined Peoopee extensively and also suspected the ligament but is sure it is not completely torn. So we have Peoopee on Rimadyl and restricted activity for a week to see if he improves. But if the ligament is going to tear, there is nothing we can do about it. Good news is our veterinarian performs the repair surgery on a regular basis, so we don't have to take Peoopee up to Columbus in the event the surgery is needed. But we are all crossing our fingers that it is just some sort of sprain...

On the baby front, we had another NST yesterday. Lily was a bundle of activity and passed with flying colors. Addison, taking her cue from her father, was sleeping. After about 20 minutes, we decided poking and prodding was necessary to get her to wake up. Seemed to work...and both girls got the OK from the doctor on duty.