Toby continues to recover and his energy is much better- but he's still not out of the woods...the poor little guy keeps having problems peeing! And giving him his medication is a bit of a challenge- one of the pills is fairly big and I'm sure tastes awful. He's figured out how to spit it out when I try to hide it in food. Since he has to take this particular pill three times a day, I am trying to come up with creative ways to get it down him (the vet said I could always pry open his mouth and stick it way down his throat- but I hate to do that!). So far one method seems to work: I give him a treat with nothing hidden in it first and he gobbles it up- then I give him a treat with the pill hidden in it and then immediately give him another "good" treat. Of course, I have to keep him away from the other dogs during all this activity- I don't want the medicine to accidentally go to the wrong pup! Today at a house party we met a 12 year old deaf Jack Russell terrier- and it sounds like he went through something very similiar to what Toby is experiencing, and he's now on a special diet for the rest of his life. It was pretty interesting seeing his owners deal with his deafness- he still zoomed around like a classic JRT!


