Infection

Jesse seems to have caught a skin infection again... I think this was triggered by the fox bite - perhaps an allergy to mites or a flea jumped over. I was going to take him to the vet today as his nose looked quite bad last night, but this morning a scab came off and it now looks pink still, but ok. So I'll see and watch it for a bit, but don't need the vet for now.

Dylan and Jesse playing this morning

Dylan and Jesse have a strange way of playing with each other... well, actually, it's the lurcher way to play and Jesse goes along with it.

I have video's them this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUnLoIkGZXg

Match and new pictures

We had a match last week-end, but Jesse broke his sit stay, so we came last... LOL But the actual round was lovely, so although some team members weren't happy, I actually was very happy with his work.

Here's some new pictures that I have taken todayin the garden.

8-way match: 2nd in Beginners

We had our 8-way match on Saturday and Jesse came 2nd in Beginnners... just as well we did well as they put the joker on us. :-)

Happy Birthday and Jesse coming to work

On Boxing Day, it was Jesse's 4th Birthday! Happy Birthday, my little boy. I can't believe that it is 4 years already since I saw those pictures of that little bundle of fur for the first time! Amazing.

We went to see Karen and David with all the dogs and it was lovely with lots of food and treats.

On Christmas Eve I had half a day at work, so I was allowed to bring little Jesse with me. He loved it at the office and everyone there loved him too. He was very well behaved and I am very proud of him.

He also did very well in the trains and got used to it very quickly eventhough he hadn't been on a train since 8 weeks old! He's a little star.

Graduation week-end in Yorkshire

Yesterday, I had my BSc (Canine Behaviour and Training) Graduation at Beverly Minster. Karen, David and I drove up there in two cars as we took all our dogs with us! I thought it was going to be quite stressful, but in actual fact, the boys were all so good and well behaved, it was no problem at all!

Here's a picture of all the boys ready to go in the Travelodge room.

Jesse being nosy

Thyroid results back

Mark called me this morning with Jesse's results. They are all a bit high, antibodies are still there.

However, Jesse's behaviour has been absolutely fine over the last about three weeks. In fact, he seems more playful again now in general. We are now thinking that his natural levels just need to be higher than average.

But so far just glad that all is fine and nothing in particular to worry about.

2nd Blood Test done

On Wednesday, Jesse had the thyroid blood test (take 2)! All went well, this time he didn't struggle either when under sedation which made life much easier. Let's hope they do the right tests this time...

Jesse also had a bath today... he looks stunning and smells devine! Shame it doesn't last long. LOL

Blood test tomorrow

Jesse is booked in for the new blood test tomorrow. I will be taking the day off so I can be with him aftewards too as of course he has to be sedated yet again...

Lab messed up + titre test results

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... the lab have messed up and overlooked doing the comprehensive test and only did the basic one . And they couldn't have done it with a worse dog either as Jesse needs to be sedated. And being a thyroid blood test it needs to be in the middle of the day as well so I have to take time off work again... bugger!

Oh well, nothing much we can do about it... They were apparently very appologetic.

We know that the T4 is in the 50ies, so on its own looks ok, but we really do need to antibodies to see the full picture.

The titre test came back fine, Jesse has plenty of antibodies circulating in his blood against distemper, hepatitis and parvo.