Jack

Jack
Jack Sparrowe, trail companion Jan 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012

Steady boy...

We had a pretty big weekend!
Jack was amazingly sharp at agility on Saturday.  He finally conquered the collapsed tunnel or "chute".
We had a friend dog sit Saturday afternoon, as we had friends in town (well, Napa, actually) and couldn't really take the dogs.  All without incident.
Sunday we had the NorCal Poodle Rescue Picnic.  It's held in a very nice dog friendly park in Danville, CA.
All the dogs were perfect party goers.  Except Jack.   All the dogs were interested in each other, and in the humans.  Not Jack.  He was over the moon: "Look at all the food!  And they leave it lying around within dog's reach!"  Of course, since he was on leash, I could curb his enthusiasm.  Then give him a treat when he came to me.  Pretty soon he realized none of that picnic food was available, but the treats were flowing pretty freely!
Cleo, of course, was royal ambassador, greeting everyone with a smile and a wag.  Until it got too hot, and we retired from the field.

We've been walking up The Hill with weights, Jack with just under 5lbs of water in his pack, me with just over 20lbs.  His weight is up and steady at 50.8lb today.  His back end just keeps getting stronger, he's almost back where he was before the Addisons crisis.

Today was DOCP day.
Electrolytes:
Na148 (high in the range, again)  midpoint: 146.5
K: 4.8   (high in the range)           midpoint:  4.55
Ratio: 31                                     midpoint: 32.5

He got the same 50mg/ 2ml of Percortin-V

I'm going to reduce the prednisone to 3/4 of a 5mg tab in the AM, and 1/2 in the PM.

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