Seeing as it was last November when I last wrote a diary entry, and it's now April, that's a whole lot of catching up to do. So I'll just try to precis in as few sentences as possible!
Brody is now 8mths old, he's had a few health issues - well, mainly one. He's got an enflamed stomach lining. He seems to be either allergic to certain types of food, or his stomach is unable to absorb certain types of food elements. This has meant many trips to the vet, blood tests, scans, changes of food and mainly lack of money. He's on hypersensitive food, and we can only give him small bits of plain boiled chicken now and then as extra. As a result, he's growing upwards but not outwards - his ribs are plain to see, and many a dog-walker can be seen staring at him (the half-shaved patchwork puppy effect doesn't help), wondering what on earth this breed is - a new Skelelab? Skinnylab? Ohmygodthey'restarvinghimtodeathlab?
The vet said we have to make sure he doesn't eat anything on his walks - as any dog owner will know, THAT'S NIGH ON IMPOSSIBLE! Just when you think he's wandered off to have an innocent sniff of a seemingly innocent blade of grass, gobble gobble yum yum, oh there goes a half-eaten KFC chicken leg, or off he trots towards another dog on the beach to have a lovely play, when there's a quick, sharp diversion to the left to snaffle up a half-rotten fish carcass.
Anyway, all this covert snaffling has today ended in a rather unfortunate but foreseeable incident - the endless vomiting. We are now aware of the signs (the first took place inside the home, on the lounge carpet, the other 3 times outside in the back garden) - looking sheepish, licking of lips, contortion of lips, then the heaving, then the gagging, then the bleuggggghhhh. Oh, and then the gobbling up of said vomit. Probably the reason for the remaining 3 sick-ups.
Other memorable moments over the past few months? Well, there was that time we met a young boy on the beach who is terrified of dogs, and boy did he let the whole beach know about it when he encountered Brody. What he didn't know was that Brody tries to comfort people who seem upset by circling them and licking them. The boy nearly died of fright - oh, and his mum fell over on the rocks when Brody pushed past her to get to said boy. What a lovely day that was. Then there was the time Brody was introduced to a badger - rather unexpectedly, not on purpose. They both froze, then the badger about turned and trundled away, followed by a rather inquisitive Brody trotting behind. Another near-heart attack moment for the other party. And of course who could forget the elderly man out for a walk with his dog, holding his camera in such a way that the long neck strap was dangling near the ground. Brody raced after the man's dog, managed to loop the camera strap round his (Brody's) own neck and carried on racing after the dog with the camera bumping and banging round his neck and across the ground. Oh the joys of dog ownership.
Anyway, I'll leave it for now. Megan has a friend over - they're baking cakes. Megan has just dropped a whole tube of silver ball cake toppings all over the floor, and Brody is trying to break the world record of how many silver ball toppings you can eat in 2 seconds. I think the record's his.
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