But she loves the new conservatory and her garden as do all the dogs.
After about a month or so she was fine and lost that stress look in her eyes. She realised that we were staying here for good!
She loves our new walks and after some additional training and the initial excitement about all the new smells died down a bit, she is now off lead in some areas (mainly Hinderclay Fen).
And with some agility equipment in the garden and lots of smells and space there too, she is kind of in heaven. :-)
However, there is also a less pleasant update> Last Sunday, Skye got stung or bitten by something on her nose. Her nose swell up.
I gave her some antihistamines (Tavegil) straight away as I knew how bad she can get from last time when she was stung by a bee. It soon settled down again and I thought no more about it.
However, on Wednesday when I came home, there was suddenly an infection there and it got so bad so quickly, I took Thursday off and took her to the vet. She was prescribed antibiotics and got a steroid injection. I also went and got a buster collar.
On Friday I took her with me to work as I didn't want to leave her at home not being used to the buster collar.
However by the evening and Saturday morning, the infection was getting worse and worse and I took her to the vet again. She was quite shocked about how bad it got and gave me additional oral steroids and I got an even bigger buster collar as she managed to reach her nose with her back paws with this one .
I also got some Manuka honey to apply to the wound and gave her arnica to. Finally by Tuesday I could see the improvement (although the Manuka honey dried the wound out within a few hours, that was quite impressive) and now the wounds looks clean and healing up well. Wow, what a drama. The wound looked so bad as if it had been neglected for weeks, yet it came up within 12 hours and it was so incredibly itchy and painful for her. But we are winning now and hopefully by the weekend (which we will spend with Karen) the buster collar can come off.
