mother's day weekend

Dave is looking forward to spending Sunday with Grammom! As far as his status, it's pretty good. He didn't snore as much the past two nights, and has been playful. Today is a rainy day, so he'll be perfectly content to sleep all day.

I talked to the vet yesterday to update her. She's happy that he's maintaining his weight, and I told her that the main difference since doing the food changes has been his activity level the day of chemo. We were concerned about the amount of each food to give him, but since his weight's maintaining, no changes need to be made. We give a half can of wet food in the morning and evening, and add about a third to half of a cup of pumpkin and/or sweet potato, spinach or kale and occasionally a hard boiled egg. Many of the herbs in our garden survived the warm winter, so they're coming back in full force already. Dave loves mint, and loves to help himself. Sometimes we'll find him relaxing in the garden, eating directly from the plant, so I wanted to make sure that it was okay to give him. The vet said that he's self medicating, since he's a hot dog and it's a cool food. This made me laugh a bit, but hey, whatever works!

I added the above picture for Grammom (yes, we have a lot of closeups of Dave sleeping. He's not a sit long for a picture kind of guy). She was concerned that he looked skinny in the last picture, which is not the case. He's still just under 31 pounds and was being enveloped by his snuggle bed.