Butt-scootin boogie

Omega

I guess I'll have to call the vet today and make an appointment for Omega, the smallest of our three Labrador Retrievers.  She has started doing the "butt-scootin boogie" around the living room rug.  I hope her anal glands are so stopped up that she isn't able to excrete on the rug.  No, I won't sniff to see.







 I should probably make an appointment for Marzipan, our fat yellow lab, while I'm at it.  She would love to do the "butt-scootin boogie" but she's too fat.  She tries to pull herself along but apparently her front legs are not strong enough to drag her almost 100 pounds.  She even tries to sort of rotate but can't quite do that either - sorta just rocks side to side with a pathetic longing in her eyes.

Marzipan was the only puppy out of a litter of 9 who did not contract Parvo.  She is very simple-minded, (even for a dog) and we wonder if Parvo sort of skipped her digestive tract and rearranged some of her brain connectors.  The vet told us that was not possible but dogs can in fact be mentally challenged.  That would certainly fit Marzipan.

Hungry Marzipan

 

 

 

 

 

Her main goal in life is to eat.  We had her on a diet one time and she resorted to eating all the pecans, shell and all, and rotten apricots that fell from the trees in the back yard; pecans are very fattening so she didn't loose any weight.   She has bad hips and isn't very active anyway and the less we feed her the less she moves.

Patience is a virtue

We have to keep her away from the other dogs during meal time otherwise she just eases her way into their space and before you know it she has her nose in their bowls and they are looking around for someone to "make her go away."   They may growl and threaten to stop her, but unless they are very hungry, they let her have her way. Once she has control of their food bowl, she lays down to eat, front paws around the bowl, eating as fast as she can before a nasty human comes in to shoo her away.  If I catch her anywhere close to extra food, all I have to do is call her name and she ducks her head and slinks away.

She has been eating diet food for a year now,  but the vet says since it doesn't cost more than her weight in gold it won't work.  That's not exactly what he said, but that is what I heard.  I guess we'll start buying diet food from the vet and see if we can get some weight off her.  I know she will feel better without all that extra weight.