homecoming

Our Weedy dog is home and how glad we are. She is on a full dose, 50 mg., of prednisone per day for 21 days, will then be on a 1/2 dose per day for an additional 21 days, and finally, on a 1/4 dose every other day until the prescription runs out. Dr. Nydam said she should be cool, calm, and restful for at least one week, with NO livestock work. Thankfully sparrows are not livestock, because Weed is giving them her earnest best. Nor are gophers livestock, (although I did have a long ago student declare them to be "awesome" when grilled over open coals). That clears Weed to dash ahead of us on an otherwise sedate walk to check our first trap set of the season, signal success, grab the dead rodent from the trap, give it her fiercest, but unnecessary, death crunch, and parade triumphantly down the county road dangling her trophy from her teeth. So goes our little dog's convalescence.