My Yorkie Bichon Mix

Every since Val and I got home from our Mexican Riviera cruise, Jack has been a little sick.  Nothing terrible as he seems to act fine when he plays and greets us at the door.  Unfortunately though he is having a bad case of “The Runs”.   We noticed it getting worse each day until nothing but liquid comes out where it should be solid.   Often times he attempts to go, but can’t and then just sits on the grass.  It is so sad looking that you just want to scoop him up and hug the little guy.

This past Saturday night was the worst though, I suspect some of our guests at a party we had, fed him some table food.  At this point we were only feeding him chicken and rise and had just started to see some improvement but that all went to hell in a handbag Saturday night.   Jack sleeps in our bed, and when he is about to throw up or go to the bathroom he will thankfully jump off the bed first.  This alerts my wife (‘m a heavy sleeper and could get hit in the head by a brick and not wake up,) that something is wrong.  We first put him back in bed and he jumped back down moments later so I quickly rushed him outside thinking something was about to explode.  YUP!

During the night, Jack had to be let out 3 times and another time in the morning.  I’d be lying to you if I said we managed to anticipate all his movements as we found a few spots where he had gone to the bathroom on the rug.  Let me tell you that stuff is a pisser to clean up.  So after that night we did not feed him for 24 hours and then started him on a regimen of chicken and white rice only.

I’m happy to say that Jack is officially clogged up now and should be returning to normal pretty soon.   Just like humans who take Imodium, dogs will usually not go to the bathroom at all for a day or so until their stomachs start to feel better.  Jack’s tummy isn’t making those sickly noises anymore so we are on track for a full recover any day now.

Oh, and Jack LOVES chicken and rice!

Jack is a pretty smart dog, but I find it hard to teach him tricks because he gets so excited about the potential for a treat that he doesn’t listen.   He will basically just start doing all the old tricks that we’ve taught him in the past without even being prompted.  Sitting, laying down, Up, paw all in a spastic sequence.  Imagine if humans got that excited about the possibility of getting some candy?  LOL  that would be hilarious!

In a past post I mentioned I was going to take a video of Jack doing some of his favorite tricks and I finally got around to taking it.  My wife Valarie also stars in this short clip so please tell her she looks great!  hehe

As you can see he has no idea what roll over means.  I’ve been trying to teach him that for months but our little Yorkie Bichon wants nothing to do with it.