This blog is a place for me to makes notes on what I'm learning in my 8 week obedience training course with my 4 month old corgi Ein. Feel free to read my posts and follow our obedience journey, but remember that this is very new to me, so the things I will be posting are things we are just now trying and learning.

If funny how night time effect mood. I'm laying here in the dark, the only one left awake, and I just start feeling the sadness creep in. Sometimes it's overwhelming. I miss my companion Tally so much. She was so gentle, attentive, and could always sense when I needed to pet her. She will never be forgotten. Ein's not quite there yet, but she's still a rambunctious puppy whose a pretty self centered. LOL She'll get there. I'm lucky to have her helping me through the grief. I suppose going to…

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Last night was rough. My corgi pup was spayed yesterday, and it caused her A LOT of discomfort. I gave her as much pain meds as I was allowed, but every little move or twitch caused her to shriek loudly or whine. So of course she was waking herself up (and me) every time she'd try to reposition herself in her dozing off stage. She was also having trouble moving around inside her crate with her cone on. So I made the bold move of letting her sleep all night outside her crate, on her soft little… Continue

I'm having my 16 week old pembroke corgi spayed on the 19th of this month, and I had a long talk with a vet friend of mine about the procedure and now I'm a little paranoid. She told me that her office does the following for every single spay surgery:

 

physical exam before the surgery

blood panel work up

iv fluids during procedure

continuous pulse ox and blood pressure monitoring during procedure

pain meds for after, and to take…

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