Weighing Pebbles
Weighing Pebbles can be a bit of a challenge. For a start it involves getting her safely in and out of the car. She is not a calm dog, as you know. Mum can’t leave her lead on as she’d have eaten it before they arrived at the vet. Nor will Pebbles stand still while Mum removes the lead. If Mum didn’t hold onto Pebbles then Pebbles would have run off before Mum could put the lead down. So there’s Mum, hanging on to Pebbles with grim determination, trying not to overbalance. And all the time Mum tries to keep a good amount of cheese in her hand to keep Pebbles’ attention on her. Mum then throws the cheese into the crate so that Pebbles will follow, be distracted by the cheese allowing Mum to close the crate door safely.
As you can imagine, getting Pebbles out is equally challenging.
Once at the vet
Having safely got Pebbles in and out of the car, the next challenge is to take her into the vet without her jumping on every other person and dog in the waiting room. On the bright side, unlike me, she doesn’t bark the place down. However, Mum has to be alert for any opportunity for Pebbles to show her over excitement. There is a lot of cheese involved in the process.
Cheese also comes into play to get Pebbles to sit on the scales. After that the whole getting Pebbles into the car antics is repeated. Then mum can calming, if a little dishevelled, go back into the vet for them to record the weight and pick up the medication she’d gone for.
As it turns out, Pebbles is 22.9kg, which means that despite having a thousand treats a day just to get her to focus, she has lost weight since she was last weighed.
The rest of us were never that much trouble.
Love and licks
Wilma
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