A note about the Vet

It hasn't stopped raining here yet. Except for a few sunny days between now and the last post, our yard still looks just like the previous pictures. Schools have been closed for the past 3 Fridays in a row now. Novel doesn't mind the mess outside...but my mom does. Continually muddy paws are not exactly compatible with good housekeeping skills. It's like the quote I read on facebook the other day:

"Cleaning a house with a dog in it is like eating an oreo while brushing your teeth."

Sooo true.

Especially when the dog is a lab.
And the entirety of the outdoors is composed of mud.
Vomit doesn't help matters.
Which finally brings me to my point:

Lookit! He was just a little kid back then!

The handsome bud Novel is just getting over a bout of entirely unexplained but regular stomach sickness. It began around a week ago and continued once a day like clockwork (except, of course, for Sunday, the day of rest. ha.) until Tuesday. Normal eliminations, normal eating and drinking, normal behavior, and the vomiting seemed to have no relation at all to mealtimes. We still don't know what the deal with him could have been. After a series of x-rays just to positively rule out the possibility of an obstruction or other strange thing going on inside, we have put him on Metoclopromide which seems to have done the trick, and which Novel gobbles up greedily 3 times a day. And no, it's not flavored. Novel just likes the taste and texture of chalk, I guess.

Novel loves the people at the vet...which in our case are the people at work. They are the only people I have ever seen Novel grin for. Including myself. And of course they all adore him. It works out great for us...I can be almost positive that he will never have much trouble with disliking going to the vet. He has had so many good experiences with all the reasons that dogs hate the vet, I really can't see it ever being a problem.

Novel has probably seen more surgeries than most people. He regularly gets to meet dogs (and cats!) of ALL shapes and sizes, and has mastered the art of ascending and descending a very precarious spiral staircase. (Believe me, I work at the. awesomest. animal hospital you've ever seen)

It's also great to have the dog-sized scale so readily available for our monthly weigh-ins. This month Novel weighed 66.6 lbs. haha yikes! I rounded up ;)