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Daisy’s slowly making friends. She still doesn’t like other doggies to sniff her butt, but then again, it’s quite a pushy thing to do. Especially on first sniffs. She started growling at this hefty boxer when he tried to cuddle closer to her. Crazy dog.

Daisy has been a blessing for my graveyard shifts. On my weekend, she’s my sounding board, my jogging partner and my TV watching buddy. The puppy was happy to see Jennifer kicked off Project Runway. Heck, the dog can’t help being bored by the matronly dresses from the Syracuse designer.

This week, we ran about 1.5 miles on the bike trail near Alamo Creek. Daisy’s learning to pace herself at the beginning, unless there’s a squirrel running up a tree. She has this blissful look on her face as she’s trotting by my side.

For me, I let go of all the negative vibes from work when I’m running on the trail. As always, work is hard. It’s exciting work, but it’s also stressful and demanding. I’m doing my best to avoid any screw-ups.

So on my weekends, I run. With my heart pounding and my brow dripping with sweat, I feel like I can take on the world again.

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I told the Pet Smart doctor that this has happened before back in Topeka. He decided to shave-off the hair from her bottom paw and see if anything was stuck up there. He couldn’t find anything. He prescribed an ear ointment and topical spray for her pain. He claimed the ear ointment could be used on other stuff, like inflamed paws. OK. He said we needed to apply both meds, two times per day and each dosage separated by at least an hour.

No problem with my graveyard schedule and Mark driving an hour+ to Berkeley. Still we knew it was worth it. She’s our Daisy and we wanted her to get better.

Friday night, we did applied both meds to her paw and it looked like she enjoyed the taste of the drugs. I also think she just couldn’t help licking the painful paw. On Saturday morning, I applied the spray again to her paw while she was sleeping in bed with Mark. I think that woke her up.

When I got home from work, I noticed she gnawed off some hair from the FRONT side of her paw. Mark and I agreed things got worse for the puppy. We knew she was making it worse from doing what comes naturally. That’s when we decided to get a second opinion from another veterinarian.

We managed to squeeze ourselves into another animal hospital before it closed for the weekend. Daisy did not like sharing the waiting room with 3 curious dachshunds. Thankfully, the doctor was quite sweet with our puppy. I think she was relieved that her butt was spared another temperature reading. The doctor sedated Daisy and checked out her paw. He found a few tiny strands of foxtails stuck in her paw. He bandaged up her injured limb with purple bandages. I told her it matched her leash, but I think the last thing on her mind was fashion choices. The doctor gave her some puppy-safe penicillin and oral meds. I think these pills are similar to the ones we got from the Topeka vet and they worked better than the Pet Smart spray and ear ointment.

On Sunday morning, Daisy looked better. She kept staring up at me with her big brown eyes, begging me to take-off the purple bandage. I reminded her the doctor said she needed to keep the area covered until Tuesday. Then she sighed.

Soon, Daisy will be running around the yard, barking at our neighbors and enjoying our beautiful Cali weather.

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