No-one seems to have a lot to say at the moment. I keep checking back but juicy gossip there is none!

I’m finding everything so hard at the moment, and I can’t seem to cope with anything! Things haven’t been quite the same since Solei put me through all that he did when he was last poorly at the beginning of December but I’m sure all this hasn’t helped either, I’ve been so stressed about it all. After my last post he finally went on Tuesday night and it was completely normal. He was ok for the next few days, then on Friday afternoon S & T came over here for a meeting and that evening I gave him a tiny bit of tinned again for the first time….Saturday we’re back to soft poo, though not dramatically and it was the usual colour this time. When he went to Manchester S came and picked him up which she doesn’t usually do (I usually take him over) and then it did get worse the first time after she’d been over again, though that could’ve been coincidence….so I’m wondering if them coming over again could have upset him. Then on Sunday Sarah came home – she’d been over at T’s for about a month for her season – and hey presto…Sunday night and we’re back to not total liquid but close to. It seems a big coincidence that everytime things have got worse something has happened that could well have upset him. Wimp 🙄

He picked up again within a couple of days after that and touch wood he’s been fine for a week now 🙂 I kept S from coming to the house last week because I thought if it was them coming that upset him it would be her rather than T, as she took him away. T came on Wednesday and he was ok after that, then we finished early at the show on Saturday so they both came back here for lunch and he was ok after that too! I did actually start giving him rescue remedy as well incase it was because he was getting himself all worked up.

Of course never a dull moment; Sarah has had diarrhoea since I’ve had her back! She’d been ok at T’s but when we picked up the Sunday before last she had dried poo on her bottom which I just brushed out. It hadn’t been there on Saturday night so I don’t know if it had actually started before I got her back or if it was her coming back which caused it.

On Friday she was bathed ready for a show. When she messes her trousers they won’t come back into show condition just with wipes and I wasn’t about to have her in the sink at 5am on Saturday washing her trousers! So I started giving her some homeopathic tablets which seemed to work. She went on Saturday (in the damn ring!) and it was normal, or close to. Then I slacked off giving them to her and it got worse again, so put her back on them and it continued to get worse until on Sunday night I was up half the night with her because I’d no sooner get back to sleep then she’d want to go outside again! We then remembered if you give too much homeopathic stuff it has the reserve effect, so took her off them completely and finally today things seem better…touch wood I really hope!

For the last three and a half weeks I seem to have done nothing but clean trousers (joys of a coated breed….there’s nothing worse than a Papillon with diarrhoea! You spend your life cleaning them up and consider taking shares out in baby wipes and powder…) and I’m so sick of it! Especially in the middle of the night. I must confess I’ve actually not touched Sarah for the last couple of days because she was getting sensitive about her tail and back end which is the last thing I need, especially as she’s just had a season and they can get more sensitive about that area anyway. She used to be very back end shy and I worked so hard to overcome it. So she absolutely stinks, she looks horrendous and I will be sticking her in the sink later today 😉

On Saturday she’d already regressed – she wouldn’t keep her tail up like she has been (it was at the stage I got her to in mid-November where it’s nearly there but not quite) and she’s definitely more sensitive about her bottom and tail being touched. I really hope if I work hard on her this week I can get her showing properly by next Sunday. She’s only got three shows left in puppy and I’d really like her to make the most of them!

Dogs – who’d have em 🙄