[nagdu] speaking too soon

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Lora,

I'm so sorry for this.  Just when you thought it was safe...

At a glance, it does seem your gathering more and more evidence to support
your stress theory.  It can be difficult and time-consuming -- not to
mention expensive -- to rule everything else out.

I like your plan to take breaks from work for play.  Trice is still a kid,
you know.  /smile/  Kids need to play play.  It's good for their minds as
much as for their bodies, and it's a great way to let them burn off all the
extra explosive energy that the careful, intensive work of guiding doesn't
really provide an outlet for.  Well, I don't know if Trice's spare energy
can be described as explosive, but Mitzi still needs to go nuts and let it
all out.  Yup, she's an exploding poodle.  /grin/  I can tell in her work
when I let the play factor slide and she starts to get out of balance,
though that's starting to taper off at last.  Whew!  Then again, when we
don't go play, I get grumpy!

So you may be onto something there.  Also, letting him play with your mom's
dog is great because he can just be a dog and hang out with his own folk.
/smile/  Dogs are very social critters, so they need that sort of thing as
much as we do.

The trick is fitting it all into your busy life.  If you figure *that* out,
let me in on the secret!

Hang in there, and let us know how it goes.

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Lora
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:26 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: [nagdu] speaking too soon

Well i spoke too soon concerning Trice's stool issues. The loose stool is
back again. It was good for about two two and a half weeks so I thought we
had been all cleared up but it looks differently. He had been on the dog
food he is on now for about two months and it had improved his overall stool
issues. I honestly think that it is stress, so I'm going to try and break up
his long work day with play and see how that goes. Man the guides I have are
way high maintainance.

I have a very busy lifestyle and am wondering if Trice is just stressed
working alot. When I take him to my mom's house to play with her dog his
stool is good. I haven't tested this theory for an extended time period so
it is too hard to say. Thoughts anybody? I just talked to my vet and Trice
is on the same food with wet food combined to make the medicine stick. We'll
see how this goes $80 later sigh.

-- 
Lora and Trice
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