Full Moon Decline

So, weird stuff happened today.

We took Rudy to the vet in the neighborhood.  We hoped this would be our family vet since it's down the street.  When we walked into the office, the FP commented on how the place looked like it was in the 80s.  Which, yeah, it did.  There were shelves with lots of file folders there.  And other stuff...

When the veterinary assistant did the initial exam, she was a little judgy, as people who work at veterinary offices can be.  And she didn't use gloves.

Then the doctor came in.  He was nice enough.  But he didn't use gloves.  Rudy got a little bitey when they started giving him vaccinations in his ass.  So, the doctor tried to show us how to calm him down - which it took a while for him to calm down.

And then he found an abscess right on Rudy's pee pee.  I saw it the night before, and I thought it was maybe one of his balls dropping.  So, I googled it.  There were other cases in which puppy owners discovered the bulbus glandis - which helps the dog stay in the bitch long enough to impregnate her.  I thought, it looks like a big swollen bug bite, but maybe that's what it is.

It wasn't.  It was an abscess.  The vet thought it was weird that a young puppy would have this.  He squeezed it.  And bloody pus squirted out.

He squeezed it with his bare hands!  Gross!

So, he gave us antibiotics to give to Rudy starting tomorrow.  But he didn't seem too worried.  He just said to contact him if it doesn't clear up after a while.

So, anyway, we took Rudy home.  And he was sleepy.  So we put him in his crate and went to lunch.  When we came back and fed him lunch, he was fine.  But then, all of a sudden, he was lethargic.  I put his leash on to take him to go potty, but he didn't want to go.  He just laid there.  So, I picked him up.  When we got by the pool, he started whining.  So, he struggled and kind of jumped from my arms and he limped over to the shady patch and just plunked down and whined some more.

We got him to get up and show us his limp.  Sure enough, it was there.  So I wondered if he had landed weird on his foot.  I was concerned.  The FP was concerned.  I wondered if we would have to take him back to the vet.

So, the FP did the only rational thing to do.
He googled it.  And, sometimes puppies react badly to vaccinations.  The site gets sore and they limp.  So, that's what we were hoping it would be.  So, he slept for a long time.  When he woke up, he limped a little, and after a while he stopped limping.

But he definitely was low energy all day.

Shots suck.