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Sometimes, when you have a dog, you buy cans of bison dog food because you’re at Sunflower Market and need to buy dog food and they have fancy, byproduct-free, sustainable-farm bison dog food. Your dog is old and now eats canned food mixed with dry food and she loves it. She dances around like a puppy while you mix up her dish, and runs ahead of you whenever you head into the kitchen in a manner that suggests perhaps it’s breakfast or dinnertime. You discover that her coat gets especially shiny and even softer now that she eats fancy canned food.

Sometimes, when you have a dog, you give her a small serving of bison, which looks just like all the other flavors of canned dog food, so that her system has time to adjust to the new food. Sometimes you just have to wait to see if she’ll throw up.

The dog goes out on a leash in the backyard to prevent pool accidents. Tonight she was extremely excited and wouldn’t stay still for the leash to be clipped on. He opened the sliding door and said, “I’ll just go out with her to make sure she doesn’t fall in the pool”. This remark was followed two seconds later by the sound of a small splash as the dog raced outside and directly into the pool in front of the bedroom door. He jumped in after her and I ran down the first two steps, soaking my jeans to the hip. He plucked her out of the water and handed her to me and she seemed fine when placed back on dry ground: wet, still eager to run around, and just as ignorant of the dangers of the water she apparently can’t see in the dark.

Tomorrow we’ll be testing her new doggy life vest.

She kept the bathroom clean overnight and while she pooped more blood this morning, it was outside during the appropriate dog-business time. She also kept the bathroom clean again all day; the antibiotics and anti-diarrhea medicines appear to be working. Altogether the vet bill was $109, which isn’t a bad price when she was due for a check-up anyway. She probably thinks she’s never leaving the bathroom again. If she doesn’t make any poopy, bloody messes through tomorrow night then she’ll get to roam the house like before, although with less freedom than usual until she’s definitely in the clear. I’m going to Home Depot on Sunday to review possibilities for building a low fence in the yard to prevent any more pool accidents, as well as a way to block off the tiled sun room with the doggy door during the day. Once the pool is secured we can leave the doggy door open for her to let herself out whenever she wants to go. It’s not like she’s going to leap over or dig under anything so the fence solution can be simple and fairly low.