April 30, 2010

This past week we had a set back. First we noticed that she started coughing when I would come home and after she ate. So we took her to the vet. They did some blood work to see if perhaps it could be heart worm, thank goodness it was not. So we are treating her as if she got a touch of kennel cough. The coughing seems to have subsided. While at the vet they weigh her and she is now 67 lbs. That is a gain of 4 pounds since we got her and is the perfect weight for her. Now we will just need to maintain it. She Looks great.

Now, for some reason she is afraid of the floors again. We are back to placing area rugs throughout the first floor to help her get over this once again. On top of this we are planning to go away and have a house sitter come in and stay with the animals. I’m not worried about Guinn, the cat and I think Tari will do ok as well. She hopefully will be comfortable with all of the rugs around and will not give Rob a rough time.

When we get back I will have some news to write of how she did.

Took a few photographs this evening. Tari loves the out doors!

April

I am so sorry that I have not kept the blog up to date. All seemed to have been going well. Easter came, we had 21 people for dinner and my brother brought his dog Oliver along. The two dogs greeted one another and basically didn’t bother with one another for the balance of the day. The weather was beautiful and Tari stayed outside chewing on a bully stick, which is probably why she paid no mind to Oliver. We are trying to encourage her to chew to get some of the tartar off her teeth. It seems to be working along with brushing her teeth.

We continue to work on the going up and down the stairs. She is mastering coming up the steps in the garden and to the deck more comfortably than the steps in the house. Going down is still really tough for her. She just does not know what to do with her legs.

Gail from the greyhound adoption agency told us that we would continue to see changes in our grey, and we are.

As the weather has been improving, Tari gets to play out side more, and we can see how happy she is. When we bring out her stuffed cow it’s fun to watch her throw it in the air, catch it and run with it. You can see her smiling as she does this. We had friends over and they actually said that they can see that Tari is really happy.