Saturday we had to make another trip to the vet. Friday when I got home my neighbor notified me that Harvey had left quite the aromatic surprise in his cage! (My neighbor lets the dogs out if I get stuck at work). Of course I waited for mu husband to get home (about 20 mins) so he could clean it up :-).

Well, there was a LOT of it, and nearly half was blood. The vet was already gone for the day, so we decided to wait it out overnight and take him in the morning unless he took a turn for the worse then we'd take him to an emergency vet. He was fine overnight and when we took him into the vet's office we found out he has hookworms. Fun fun! We immediately went home and mixed his medicine with half a can of dog food. Wouldn't you know he would not eat that food??? Well I just took away both dog's food and waited until Harvey was hungry enough to eat it (about an hour later actually). I limited Harvey's food over the last few days so he would eat the canned food with the medicine in it, the once he was done with it last night I put the dry food out again.

After Harvey was done eating, Just & I went out in the yard and cleaned up every last bit of poop we could find, then raked the yard just to double check. I got the sprayer off my ortho max container and mixed up a batch of bleachwater and we sprayed the backyard. I let my neighbors know that no one can walk in the backyard without sneakers, and not to let the kids play in our backyard, etc. Now we have to be freakishly clean in the backyard, where before we used to just clean up the "land mines" once a week. Makes nightime potty runs all the more fun! hehe.

I called the shelter and they are going to extend the neuter deal for another 30 days because Harvey has to go through the deworming in another 3 weeks, then do the cycle again in 3 months after that. I just hope Chance doesn't pick it up!

Amber