So after several weeks of manic activity - hiking, traveling to Cape Cod, Long Island, and upstate New York - I decided to take a breather this weekend. Friday I went out with a match.com connection in Lee, MA and had a great time. We went out to dinner at the Bombay Grill, during which I tried the Hot Lemon Pickle soup. Who can resist a soup with that name? Turns out I should have, it was (intentionally) served cold and was inedible - very spicy with a terrible texture and taste. When they first set it on the table I took one look and ‘cat food’ sprang into my head. I couldn’t get it out, even though it tasted nothing like cat food. The dinner was otherwise very good however. Afterwords we had a drink and a cup of coffee at a local sports pub/pizza joint. Saturday I basically vegged out - gaming, reading, tossing the ball with Soolin, napping in my lawn chair. It was great. Sunday we went to our favorite swimming hole, Puffer’s Pond, for a couple of hours, then it was some errands and more relaxing at home. Saw a mediocre movie, Zodiac, from the normally reliable David Fincher. I fell asleep during the last half hour not once, but twice, which I think sums up the main issue with the film quite nicely - not a bad film but it falls apart in the end. Ironically this sums up my weekend as well because by Sunday afternoon I noticed something was up with Soolin. She’s been scratching more than usual the last week and as we went to bed I noticed she had chewed off all the hair on her leg and couldn’t stop worrying at it. I ended up getting very little sleep because I kept waking up whenever she started on herself again, chiding her and curling myself around her in an attempt to block her from reaching her legs.
We’ve got an appointment with the Vet this afternoon to look things over. Hopefully it’s not the dreaded mange, which the Vet things is unlikely, and is instead some kind of allergic reaction.
Emmet’s dog used to do that and did it once to the point of actually putting herself in shock. She managed to remove all the hair from the backs of both her legs and it was all raw and gross… Saw the vet and then she basically didn’t get up for a couple of days. Turns out she is super allergic to wheat. Any time she gets any wheat she will do the same thing to some degree… hopefully that’s what you’ve got, but to a lesser degree.
Mange? What would make you jump all the way to that?
Turns out it is a hot spot, caused by swimming and then me not drying her soon enough. I began to think it was mange because first, Soolin met the Wilson’s dog in NY over the weekend and it has a set of unresolved skin issues, and because I started googling and the only dog skin issue I was aware of was mange, so I looked at pictures and was like, hmm, it does look like that.
Anyway she is on the mend now and it’s not mange, I posted about it in another story.