Wordsworth

Wordsworth playing. Also he has developed a cough and runny nose.

Wordsworth is still doing well. His cough is minimal and no sign of the other cold symptoms that go with Distemper. But I can't find a food he likes. I am guessing he has been fed Korean food. He enjoys dog food, once. He will wolf down the dry food the first time he has it. Then he doesn't want it again!! Expensive. Even with wet food he likes it once or twice then gets bored. Let me know if anyone has any ideas. I want to make sure he is eating so he can fight the disease so it is quite important.
New pictures to follow.

I had to take the car to the garage, so we all sat in the waiting room together. At first Wordsworth really wanted to sniff everything, but then he just settled down. Apparently he really loves sardines! Go figure, so I guess I will try him with some fishy stuff and see if he will eat that.

Update.
Wordsworth is not doing well at all. I suspect that the Corona gave his little immune system too much extra work and allowed the distemper to really take hold. His distempter symptoms have come back much worse. With a terrible runny nose and sniffles but more worryingly a real depression and listlessness. He spends most of his time sleeping, which hopefully means his body is fixing him but the situation is far from ideal.
He is still on medicine from the vet and I will keep a close eye on him. Fingers crossed he will make a recovery. Thanks so much f9r all your well wishes.

And in the continuing saga of the wee Woz man (seriously I think he is trying to do me in!) he has perked up considerably today! Even barked at me this morning. Finally found some food he wanted to eat (only 6 cans of opened dog food in my house now!) and he wolfed down 1/2 a can at lunch time. I like this forward progress.

Update:
Wozzy and I went to the vet yesterday. Although she initially started out very positive she noticed a strange twitch. I had thought it was just him sniffing so had gone back for more medicine but she thinks it might be the start of the neurological signs of distemper.
She has given us anti-convulsants in the hope that they will hold back or stop any seizures. But we can't be sure what the twitch is until he gets better, or worse. If the neurological signs set in then there isn't really anything further to do. He will either die from seizures or be put down. Hopefully it's just a weird twitch. Seems like if it's not one thing it's something else these days.
Anyway, here is a video of his twitch.
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Hi Everyone,
Here is the newest video of Wordsworth:

As you can see he is not doing great. His 'tick' is now much more pronounced. We are going to the vet tomorrow, but to be honest I think we might be going to get him put down. He is hardly sleeping because the tick wakes him up so often. Also he has started getting pains that cause him to yelp, it doesn't last more than a few seconds but it can't be good. Altogether his quality of life is not great. We can continue to medicate him on anti-convulsants, but they will be less and less effective.
Anyways, off to the vet tomorrow and we will see what she suggests.
I'm sorry it's not better news.

The wee man is still with us. I visited the vet on Monday and she wants to try one more round of medicine. It's still very much wait and see and she isn't really very optimistic. I think she just doesn't want me crying my eyes out in public again :) Anyway, for now he is loud (seriously, barks often) and proud with a terrible new haircut the vet gave him.
Thanks everyone for keeping up with him and thinking of him, it really helps.

Shhhhhh, don't say anything, I don't want to jinx it!

He actually started yapping wanting to be let down!!

However he did wake me up at 5am this morning barking up a storm. Got no manners. I guess it's time to start training again.

Out for a walk on Friday. We walked Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday he managed nearly 10 minutes on and off and still had energy to burn.
Problem is he seems to be dying from starvation. I have wormed him but I am going to get more from the vet Tuesday, although he has no other signs of parasites. I guess maybe his body finally realised he hadn't been eating enough for a growing boy and decided to catch up. Unfortunately for me that means wake up barking twice a night for more food!! Planning on putting out loads of dry food tonight in the hope that he can make it through the night!
Worst manners ever! He wants to be the centre of attention, the moment I try to lavish some attention on Luna he is there butting in. And if he doesn't get it barking ensues. Think we are back to training time!

Progress update.
Some of you will remember this video from when Wozzy first arrived:

He was quite nervous with Luna and had no idea she was trying to play.
This video was taken this morning. At this point they have been playing very happily like this for about 45 minutes, they both seem to be having a great time and there has been none of the worried growling he used to display. That also shows how much stronger he is, that he has the energy to keep this up!!

Check out Wozzy and Luna's new haircut ready for their holidays!
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