If you receive a text or email from me that seems unintelligible, just know it is in Kitten Code…
This is Daisy from yesterday.
And her measurement this morning…
Daisy is due on January 28. She is growing well, and remains happy and hungry.
Claire is also growing well — this is her measurement this morning with a week to go.
She is big and awkward and still requires very expensive items on her daily buffet of potentially edible food — and then she will consider whether they are actually edible at that particular moment.
For example, kibble is never ever EVER edible for breakfast but she will condescend to eat some later in the day if the following conditions are met: 1) No more than three pieces are offered at one time; 2) The kibble must be fed from the hand; 3) The hand may not have slobber on it (even though the slobber is hers!); and, 4) she cannot possibly stand when eating said kibble.
This morning’s breakfast was a small amount of shredded chicken breast, hand fed in small bites. All you moms out there can relate — morning meals are just not the thing when pregnant.
Yesterday I did an online consultation with a rehab veterinarian — Claire is apparently in the 1% of dogs whose CCL injuries are acute. There is no way to know whether hers is a partial or full tear because of the pregnancy hormone, Relaxin, which loosens everything and likely is the culprit in Claire’s injury. Her brace arrives today and we will use that until Claire can have a Relaxin-free work-up to fully assess the injury — likely in April or May.
I suspect Claire’s pregnancy journal would include a lot of swear words.
Have an outstanding and swear word-free day!