Permanent staff: Abby

Abby is now permanent staff; we've adopted her.

She has a gammy leg, and limps with it, except when she's running for food. We took her to the vet for x-rays, and it seems like she has some arthritis in the right leg, possibly from an old broken bone. The doc has put her one monthly injections of an arthritis medication, Pentosan, apparently originally for humans, with weekly doses for the first month. Till the first dose kicks in, she's on some cortisone tablets. 

She's a quiet girl, and happily chooses a snoozing spot in whatever room we're in, but when it's food time, she gets very excited, tippy-tapping her toes and waving her paws past her ears. Sadly for her, she's on diet! Kat and I call her Abby, Ab-Pab, Pabby, or Pabeolus.
 

 

All four of the spaniels just got their summer cuts, so they're looking much smoother and skinnier.