A WALK WITH DARBY

We are SO happy that not only is Darby back home, but that he’s ready for outings.  We love our pack walk with Darby.  We sometimes have others walk with us, but today it was just Darby, me, and Gus. First we stopped by Darby’s house to give him a gift.

 

Then we went inside Darby’s house and his Guardian showed us his stitches.  (Hide your eyes if it bothers you.)

 

Now Darby’s a little dog, and that was a looooong cut in his tummy!  Guardian said he’s going back to the hospital to get those stitches removed.  I’m not sure how they get removed very soon, and since I don’t like animal hospitals, I won’t ever know.  Our Guardian’s tummy gets upset when it comes to body parts being cut into or seeing boo-boos. Especially ones that are oozy or dripping red stuff.  So I know she won’t be looking.  I even saw her make a face when she took that picture of Darby’s stitches.  

Then we started out on our walk.  Along the way we saw the BIG dog, Millie.  She’s part Border collie and something else that’s much bigger than a Border collie, and she sometimes scares Gus.  But I can hold my own with her.  Mostly she likes chasing her toy, and then she doesn’t even know there’s anything else in her world.

Jazz, Darby, Millie (& her toy) and Gus

 

So you’re probably wondering what was wrong with Darby.  Well, we were told he has something called “Irritable Bowel Disease, Moderate.”  I have no idea what that is, but it does mean he’ll be on special medicine to calm his irritable bowels.  His Guardian had a really, really sad look on her face when she told us that.  She had a sheltie before she brought Darby into her life and he had to be on special medication a long time.  It made him sick in other ways.  And she said that Darby's tummy and bowels were always sort of irritable, so he was born that way, I guess.  His personality sure ISN'T irritable! We did notice that his tail was dragging today and that he didn’t bounce like he used to, so I guess he’s sad, too, that he has to take special medications. 

I think he looks sort of unhappy in this picture.  But still insanely cute, you gotta admit!