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Showing posts with label pili. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pili. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Moving to Aargh 9 - Furgoneta

To move stuff that does not fit our Dacia, like couches, wardrobes, we rented a furgoneta (van) for 3 days. Did 7 or 8 round trips, 2 and 3 per day.

We could not yet leave Pili with the other dogs, too new, too uncertain, so we took her on every trip, there and back again. She curled up nicely on my feet. Aww.

We had a bit of a scare: the left tail light of the van was broken. See the first photo, the bottom part is broken off.  That is very strange, that first photo is 15 minutes after collecting the furgoneta, and it had not been driven in reverse at that point in time.  When you collect the van they take pictures, so all we could hope for is that the rental agency is honest and decent, and if the photo has a broken tail light they accept.  We had not seen that it was broken, went back to the place where we loaded the blue couch to see if bits of the light were there. No.  So maybe we're in for the repair of a tail light. At 75€ rent per day that probably is more expensive than the rent. 

Our beloved Tango, and a broken tail light

More stuff on top of the Tango

Bed

Outside furniture

Couch nr. 2: Benz

Tex'ss couch

Office chairs




Aaargh


PS

Took the furgoneta back, they (Costa Coches) are indeed honest and decent: the light was already broken when we got the van. 

They are very observant, even though we cleaned and mopped the footwells of the van he spotted some dog hairs. Transporting a dog is not allowed per contract, and indeed that was in the (long) text. Sorry. That cost us 60€ cleaning costs. So be it. Should have vacuumed.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Pilar / Pili

Next day. 

The family that said they’d adopt cancelled.  Paws Patas has no space. But we could arrange a visit to the vet in Turre. Ellen. The same vet we went to with Tex, a few years ago.

She thinks the dog is 4-5 tears old. She's too thin. 29 kilos is too little. The skin patch looks like a yeast infection. That can be due to leishmania, or a simple allergy. 

She took a vial of blood to send off to the lab to test for the 5 nasty Spanish dog diseases (leishmania, filaria/heartworm, ehrlichia, and two more).

PS
Blood tests came back negative for all 5 nasty diseases  That is incredibly lucky. 


We call her "Pilar", or short: "Pili", after the Cuentame Como Paso charatcter.

Skin

She has a big hairless patch, with strange looking scaly skin, and she smells a bit funny. "Elephant skin" the vet called it. Probably a yeast infection called Malassezia, see https://www.marvistavet.com/yeast-infection-of-the-skin.pml

There is a shampoo to treat this, "Malaseb".  Another way is to make the skin more acid, using diluted apple vinegar. Using both now, awaiting results. May take a while to clear.