Showing off

Showing off our Basset/mixes from over the years. All of them have been rescues.

1-Our current girl Genevieve. She’ll be 5 in March and we’ve had her for 2 years.

2-Lilly. Adopted because our first basset had separation anxiety. She passed in 2022 ~13yo

3-Cooter. The one that started it all. He passed in 2017 ~12yo.

4-Lilly and Cooter after a hard fought tug of war.

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Poorly basset again

My Layla had an unplanned trip to the emergency vet today. She was very lethargic after her morning trip out to the garden, is off her food, and started trembling when she went to lie in her bed.

The vet says she’s physically fine – normal heart beat, breathing and temperature – all she could find was that Layla wimpered slightly when she was inspecting her stomach.

Layla came home with some painkillers just incase she’s in any discomfort, but the it was concluded she’s got a stomach bug, probably from eating something she shouldn’t. I’m taking her to our local vet tomorrow (she was already booked in for a check up) so I’ll get them to have a look into it of she’s no better in the morning.

This is the second time this has happened in the last few months. She’s a very sniffly dog and will pick up pretty much anything given the chance. After she was ill the first time, I doubled down on watching what she’s doing in the garden and making sure there’s nothing in the floor in the house.

I took her on a walk yesterday where she was sniffing around the grass verges more than normal. I tried to keep an eye on her, but she insists on walking slightly behind me and, if she’s quick, I can’t see what she’s getting into a lot of the time. She also managed to pinch a couple of maltesers while we were at my mum’s over Xmas – this was around a week ago though and the vet seemed unconcerned.

Can this sniffing/stealing behaviour be trained out of her? I’m reluctant to put her in a muzzle when walking but I know it’s an option.

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