Skye Update

I have been asked how my dog is doing?

http://thecabbagepatchkids.blogspot.com/2009/12/skye.html

Well, she has made a 90% improvement. It has truly been a miracle the way she has improved. When she first went down, I had thought would not return from the Emergency Vet. I had thought her time had come and at her age, there was nothing they could really do.

Amazingly, TLC w/ lots of rest and encouragement has sprung her back to her old crazy dog ways. She has now rejoined us at the dinner table (not that this was a good thing) stealing what she can when noone is looking, wrestling with our other dog, scratching (to my horror) our carpet, barking persistently at unforeseen enemies, and the most annoying of all licking her paws and floor over and over. The only difference is sometimes her head is cocked at 20 minutes after the hour degree, in a weird sort of angle. She has also decided she prefers to be carried up the steps- but carrying a hefty and stocky 60 pound border collie up a flight of stairs is not the easiest thing for her or me.

Oh and just yesterday, the kids conveniently left the door open and she escaped. In the past, she would have continued to run until she cornered some unwary stranger she could circle and snarl at, found a large creek to wade in, or chased a squirrel up a tree. Instead, when I ran out to look for her, she saw me from about four houses down and ran TOWARDS me!