Coco has been bent the past week. I'm wondering if she has had it with her rowdy rover class; we got stuck next to a dog last week that barked the whole time. She's decided that charging the door is a new thing to do whenever people walk up the stairs! Miguel and I make her lie down every time she does it, and she kinda looks at us like, "whaaa? whaaa I do? I'm just protecting the house!" It will be nice when we have a real house then she can charge the door as much as she wants! On the flip side, I had a snow day on Friday so Coco was more than happy to curl up on her favorite blanket and watch TV with me for most of the day. Her Rowdy Rover class was canceled because of the storm, so let's see if she is more relaxed this week. Barking dogs are just too much for her, so it's good that she got a holiday.
I took Coco to the vet to get her Lyme vaccine. For us New Englander's, Lyme disease is what we've heard about for years, but apparently out west, where the ticks are less common, it's less discussed. I did a little research on the protein that causes the disease when I was in grad school, so I learned alot about Lyme in the process. A spirochete bacterium that lives in the infected
salivary glands of a deer tick causes Lyme disease. It starts out with flu like symptoms, but can progress to the joints and nervous tissue. There is currently no vaccine for people, because some people had auto immune responses to the original one. For dogs, who can't tell you they have the flu let alone achy joints, you just can't risk it, so they get the vaccine anyways. It'll be Frontline for this pup till next Winter. My sister's dog, Gus, has Lyme disease. Poor Gus, he is very achy and grouchy most of the time. To prove that this blog doesn't discriminate against Westies, here is a picture of poor grouchy Gus.
