Sunday, August 31, 2008

Otto's least favorite month






August is coming to an end and not soon enough for Otto. Otto is horribly allergic to August. Like clockwork, on August 1st, he starts gnawing on his feet. Like clockwork, 30 days later, a $350.00 trip to the vets office, 2 weeks of antibiotics and 18 benydral a day later....he is still gnawing on his beet red feet. It is hard to imagine that this hearty and fierce dog can get reduced to such ruins. He is thin, tired and joyless. He lives on the couch downstairs, in the corner of a dark cool room and only comes up when he needs to go outside. He doesn't even bark at the trailers and boats rattling by. Very sad. His eyes look so drawn and red.


"This will pass" I told him tonight when he came up to greet some labor day dinner guests then quickly retreated back downstairs to his couch to gnaw his feet in private. Poor Otto, he is too miserable to even consider being naughty.

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