Milly Tucks into Her Food

After a week or so of being very light with her eating and apparently picky, Milly has suddenly become a normal dog with her food! It is a bit of a relief, as although the vet said she was healthy, she is so tiny and has obviously had a rough time before, that it was a bit of a concern. I’d even checked her teeth and mouth in case she had problems there.

I think she wasn’t eating due to nerves and being unsettled in her new home. However this weekend she has really started to get settled in and she skips around – admittedly in a slightly odd fashion – and also she has started to play. Again, with limited success with anyone other than Pixie, who is very good at playing with our blind dogs and cats, but Tinkerbelle is having a go too. But it is proper play, with all the leg chewing that this involves. And at the same time she started to eat properly and get excited about meal times.  I think she is feeling at home now and I don’t think there’ll be further food problems.

Bob didn’t used to drink when he was unsettled and this used to cause problems.

There is one thing that tugs on the heart strings about blind animals and that’s when they try to play, and their play mate has disappeared. We first saw it with Pirata, who’d be stalking another animal after it had left the patio, and we’ve seen it since with all the others. We’re seeing it again with Milly who yesterday was trying to get Alfie to play, by doing the getting down on front legs thing, only Alfie hadn’t noticed (or had chosen not to notice) and had disappeared and she didn’t know and was still skipping around.