More About Doggy, and Google

Cinnamon continues to improve. Often her eyes are not twitching back and forth now, and she can walk and even trot in a fairly straight line. But she still falls over sometimes, particularly when first starting out, or stopping. She can negotiate the steps by herself, but occasionally falls to the right against the wall. For whatever reason, she absolutely refuses to eat her regular food. We’ve been giving her some Alpo and other stuff that’s soft but also certainly tastier, and she scarfs it up.

If you search for “chappell family” on Google our website comes up around #70 in the results. We’ve had a couple of hits on the site by people who were searching with that phrase. There sure are a lot of Chappells out there!

Puppy Update

Little change from yesterday, although we’ve brought her upstairs, putting the gate at the top so she won’t try to go downstairs by herself, which certainly wouldn’t work yet. She mostly lies around, but occasionally stands up and gazes, looking lost. She ate some more cheese and crackers, won’t touch her food. Eyes constantly moving back and forth. It’s very sad. But, she responds to attention, and chased a tennis ball earlier, once. Enough petting and she smiles.

And this evening she lit out after a rabbit in the back yard. Like a bullet, she was. I was scared she’d smack into the fence, but the bunny took a quick right and Cinnamon lost track of it. Sheesh. Dumb dawg!

Cinnamon – The Next Day

For reassurance to folks who are worrying about the poor puppy, here are some pictures of her today. You can see her head tipped to the right, and in the standing up photo she has that right leg extended out. She tends to fall to the right. I’d guess the world is spinning clockwise in her head. The vet said she may retain the head lilt after she recovers. Makes me think “recovery” may not be that the world stops spinning, but rather that the brain adapts to it with new motor coordination. That would suck, but maybe animals wouldn’t know the difference.