{"id":97,"date":"2006-07-28T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=97"},"modified":"2006-07-28T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:09:00","slug":"sick-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2006\/07\/28\/sick-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Dogs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/images\/organized\/People\/Draco\/draco-chew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/images\/organized\/People\/Draco\/draco-chew.jpg\" alt=\"Draco Chews A Rawhide\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a Great Dane sized red Doberman named Draco.  He has never been your typical high energy Doberman.  I&#8217;d guess he sleeps an average of about 20 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Recently he got sick.  At first he started eating less and I thought well the weather is 90\u00baF out and he&#8217;s not terribly high energy so about the only thing he needs calories for is to keep his body warm.  But then he stopped eating dog food altogether.<\/p>\n<p>So $200 worth of lab tests later the vetrinarian diagnoses a kidney and bladder infection, though there is some indications it was also in his sinuses and intestines.<\/p>\n<p>I was not sure he was going to make it through the night before last.  Couldn&#8217;t get up on his own, then couldn&#8217;t get back down.<\/p>\n<p>He is on antibiotics and doing a lot better today.  Whatever he picked is nasty stuff.  He brought a petrified squirrel home a couple of weeks ago, maybe something from that.<\/p>\n<p>Today he demanded his morning walk and didn&#8217;t want to go the short route, been a while since he did that so definitely is getting better.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a Great Dane sized red Doberman named Draco. He has never been your typical high energy Doberman. I&#8217;d guess he sleeps an average of about 20 hours a day. Recently he got sick. At first he started eating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2006\/07\/28\/sick-dogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}