Here are some of the things Nikki, Robyn and I liked about it:
It was fantastic to be able to take our dog, Nikki, with us on holidays for the first time.
The six off-leash areas were not just flat paddocks, so Nikki was able to get exercise running up and down slopes. There was even a selection of dog toys at the entrance of each of the off-leash areas.
A place so quiet that you can hear the bird life though-out the whole day. It was an experience to wake up to bird calls, not having heard them for over 20 years. Nikki was puzzled by the sounds, because she’s a city dog. (more…)
Weimaraners can suffer from bloat. Bloat occurs because Weimaraners like Nikki try to stuff as much food down their throats, as quickly as possible.
And their stomachs swell up with gas. Bloat can be a fatal condition for dogs. So it’s a good idea to avoid it.
I’ve always been worried about Nikki and her vacuum cleaner feeding antics, so I’ve been looking around for some way of slowing her eating down.
Enter the Eat Better Bowl, by Alpha Paw. As you can see from the photo, the Eat Better bowl has a “wishbone” at the centre of the bowl.
What this does is divide the bowl into three parts, which prevents the dog from opening their mouth fully (ie. gulping).
Which means the dog has to take smaller mouthfuls.
With Nikki, she’s gone from finishing her meal in under a minute, to now taking five minutes.
Nikki is back from surgery to remove the rest of the mast cell tumours, and has been sleeping most of the day. The Vet said that she didn’t react well to the anaesthetic, and needed a tranquilizer to settle her down.
I noticed one when I took her to the Vet to get her yearly vaccinations. And the vet had a look, and after some wallet lightening, we decided that we needed to confirm the severity of the tumours; one way or another.
The first operation was to remove some of the tumours for biopsy. Now we know they are only Grade 1 tumours.
The bad news is that she now needs to get the rest of them cut out. That will happen Thursday week.
He’s developed a bit of a cough, so he’s been off to the vet.
First, the vet thought “enlarged heart, let’s get an x-ray”.
X-ray came back, no, heart looks normal, but “we’ll try him on some heart medicine in any case.”
No difference in cough, or behaviour.
So back to the vet.
“Well since you don’t want to consider heroic measures … “
Heroic measures.
The first time I heard about heroic measures was in a (fictional) book titled “Goshawk Squadron”, by Derek Robinson. One of the characters was talking about using an axe to remove a patient’s limbs on the battlefield. It was that, or the patient dying. Heroic measures.
Strange to hear a vet say that. And as soon as I heard that, I thought “No, we’ll be letting the dog enjoy his old age while he can.”
Beautiful Sunday morning, out with the dogs. The old male Vizsla is slowing down in his old age. Tremendous heart, wants to keep trying to walk along side us.
Used to be that he’d wait for the Wonder Weimaraner and myself to catch up. Now we wait for him.
Which I don’t mind. One of the few examples of time running slow, which I like.
VOPT Hard Disk Defragger
This is the other disk defragging tool I plan to evaluate. You might remember my PerfectDisk evaluation. This’ll be similar.
TrueCrypt – Free open-source disk encryption software
I use this, not because I’m paranoid, but because my employer blocks the use of EFS and I can’t use Bitlocker.
I used to use PGPdisk, which was equally as good, but not free. TrueCrypt is free.
Password Manager XP
The commercial version is being evaluated by a work colleague of mine. He’s impressed. Password Manager is a password storage system.
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