Tuesday post

What started out to be a fairly warm day, turned colder and colder and it is now 59 degrees.  That may not sound very cold, but when it started out in the mid 70's, it feels pretty cold.  The lows tonight are expected to be in the 40's too.

This morning we had a real scare with our newest fur kid Bella (who is only about 7 pounds).  Hubby came back from being at the store and was in the kitchen putting a few things away.  It was about 9:40am, and Bella was just sort of laying in the kitchen and not really moving. She usually is hopping around, wanting to see what is going on, and smelling whatever she can. Then her head started swaying from side to side, not good.  I picked her up and she was just not looking good.  We laid her in hubby's lap for a while to see if she was just really tired, as sometimes she nods when she is falling asleep. I went back to the office and was thinking about calling the vet. 

She is always exploring whatever she can find outside, and I was hoping she didn't ingest something poisonous.  Suddenly hubby was headed to the back door announcing she was getting sick.  She proceeded to upchuck her entire stomach contents out on the back porch.  I didn't really see anything peculiar.   When she was done she was still lethargic. We decided to wait a little to see if she got any better since she got rid of everything in her stomach.  She did start to relax a bit and was resting without head sways or jerking or anything.  Then she took a nap for a while. So turns out she was okay.  It is so hard to know when to call the vet.   She is just so small, I didn't want to ignore something potentially fatal. I was really to the point of about to dial the vet's phone number.

By mid-afternoon she was running around the house again with a toy, playing.  She ate dinner fine and has kept it down and seemed fine since.  We're going to try to keep a better eye on whatever she gets into outside although we still really don't know what was wrong.  It is so hard with animals when they can't tell us what hurts.