Update on Inca
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Min Pin dogs | 13 comments
Inca
Inca is still being cared for at the Animal Health Trust. We get daily updates from the vets. She has been stable for three days now and is eating. The infectious diseases tests are due back today. Depending on the results they can balance the correct medication for her condition. I also got a call yesterday morning from a vet at our local practice – she had been up at the AHT and visited Inca.
“I gave her a stroke but she’s still very shaky.”
We are missing Inca like mad. I hadn’t realised how this little dog has got under my skin. The cottage is very quiet without her. Min Pins are one person dogs and there is nothing that you can do to influence this. The Contessa has chosen Danny. Dr Quito and Inca are more drawn to me. Although they all know that Danny is a much softer touch when it comes to titbits.
We decided not to visit Inca. I didn’t want her to get upset if we visited and then left her again. But it is hard thinking of her being there and not being well. Like all Min Pins she is very particular about who she likes and who she would definitely not invite to tea. But she did warm to the vets at the AHT and relaxed when they examined her.
Meanwhile The Contessa and Dr Q shadow me constantly. In the past The Contessa was not interested in the morning chicken duties, now she joins Dr Q and me at feeding time.
At the moment I’m busy pricking out hundreds of flower seedlings into trays. These are then set under the makeshift cold frames that I’ve made with recycled bubble wrap and old windows.
I do this on the table beside the pond, where I can sit down. The two elderly Min Pins lounge in the sun at my feet. All min Pins are sun worshippers. Like me they love the sun on their backs.
Hopefully Inca will be back with us soon.
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Awww I wish Inca a speedy recovery; she is beautiful 🙂
Fiona- I think that you guys are right in not visiting Inca. My understanding is that dogs have no sense of time (which I’m not exactly sure I believe, because Rufus sure knows when it’s suppertime and it’s being ignored). Although, when I think on it, maybe Inca would like to know that you haven’t completely abandoned her. Maybe the vet will have good advice in this regard.
I am going to research MinPins’ size because our next dog we agree will be a short hair, but my husband has sworn off the miniature breeds because we found out the hard way that they are prone to heart problems. I would love a Chihuahua, for instance, but Steve says no.
I am truly hoping that all goes well and that Inca is much better and back at home, sassing her way around the place. It is amazing that even though you have two others, one missing is still felt. I hope she knows how much she’s loved.
Get well soon Inca!
Good thoughts and wishes from over here!
I have been thinking of you and Inca and hope she makes a full recovery. I have a different way of looking at visiting animals in hospital though. I do not feel animals are any different to us. Would you understand if no one visited you while you were in hospital and in the greatest need to be reassured? I believe you may never forget that feeling of being ‘abandoned for your own good’. Sorry Fiona but for Inca’s sake I feel the need to offer a different angle.
Fiona and Danny I am so glad Inca is on the mend. I think you are very brave not going to see her, but I think you are right. She needs peace and quiet and not to be upset in any way. I have been so worried about her as many of us have. I hope she continues to improve and come home to her family soon.
I’m just catching up with things- I’m so sorry to hear about Inca’s illness and glad she’s recovering. I think you’re right not to visit for her sake, but it makes it even harder for you.
Hope Inca is home with you soon.
Glad to hear the pooch is on the mend 😉
I’m having my own trials with my dog at the minute so I know how you feel.
Hello Fiona
So glad to hear that Inca is on the mend, I hope she will soon be back home and back to her old self. Max seems to be much more nervous since he was attacked by another dog last summer but he is quite old now. Perhaps Inca’s youth will enable her to shake off this illness fully. You know that having a dog around makes a difference, but it is only when they are not there that you realise just how comforting their presence is.
The boss of the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket is about to be interviewed on Radio Suffolk (Wednesday 24 March, Lesley Dolphin’s afternoon show).
How comforting it is to know Inca is in expert hands and her treatment is covered by the insurance. I hope she’s getting a little stronger every day.
Celia
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