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Thursday, September 7, 2017

We started seeing some of the Prednisone's effects. Fast breathing and panting, resting inside a lot, drinking so much water, being hungry often.

Because of the amount of water he drank, Sparky needed to go outside every few hours which was difficult but doable when I or Sorana were at home. Nicola, unfortunately, could not walk the puppy as he was too big for her (105 pounds, about 50 kg). One strong pull from Sparky and Maria would follow him anywhere as per the saying "Follow the leader".


Sparky always had the tendency of being the pack leader and sometimes we would not mind him doing that. This was probably related to our refusal of neutering him and keeping him intact. In retrospect, I am sorry of not neutering him so he could have played much more with other dogs at the park (which otherwise would avoid him or try being aggresive, good luck with that!) and swam in the ocean more frequently. But for each of us, neutering seemed completely abnormal when he was little.


So for now, we took him out every few hours to pee.

The length of the walk would determine when the next walk happens. If the walk was long enough and he peed everything out, then the next walk was in about 4 hours, maybe 5. Otherwise, expect 3 hours on average.

Good thing though that he had lots of enery and did not mind the frequent walks. I enjoyed them as well since they gave me more time with him.


More time was what I was most interested in, more time, more time, until time stops.




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