[Dailydrool] Pestiferous Allergies Resurgent and The Splendiferous Vision!

[lea pierce]

​Houndservant QUITE unhappy to report that long-term HMS Santa Rosa guest,
Lady Foxy, is also suffering an allergy flare-up. This after Houndservant
was out of town, came back, and the Lady was LOVELY--really looked good
after a week's care with GGBR Commander-In-Chief, Gloria--at the
vetspital/hound hotel in Novato, CA.

Being boneheaded and often clueless, Houndservant had finally determined
that grass was a problem. Had all the grass (mainly foxtails) mowed. It
seemed to help, now that rain has ended (a dry year, at that), to be down
to dry grass. BUT NO. No Such Luck. Apparently L. Foxy is also allergic to
house dust and dirt dust and doG knows what else--maybe Acacia trees.

Anyway. L. Foxy is going back to the vetspital & CIC Gloria tomorrow (as
Houndservant is on maneouvers to Bozeman, MT for a couple of weeks) and is
going to be put on Alpoquel or Temeril-P or Something Else. Plus whatever
else she needs. She's not that red, but she is hot to touch and also
digging at herself again; that brown ucky look is creeping over her and for
the first time, her ears are touchy and she won't let Houndservant do more
than look. And some of her fur is getting patchy. All this in the last 3-4
days in spite of her regular regime.

Arrrgh!! The only succor Houndservant can provide poor little beastie is
all-hound hand-scratches throughout the day. L. Foxy has become quite
insistent on her scritch-massages.

​Houndservant shall send mission updates as available on pestiferous
allergies. O! The agony of watching a scritchy-itchy hound!!!​
​ It is very concerning, this up and down. She was doing so well.

Managing a chronic condition in a hound is as bad as managing one in a
human. L. Foxy knows how to gritch and moan and tell me she is miserable,
O!​
​ Poor beastie.​


​Now to the Splendiferous Vision!

Houndservant was visited during the dead of night with a most pleasing
Vision (on second thought, maybe a nightmare). Waking from a sound sleep,
Houndservant had the full color remembrance of being surrounded by 7 (yes,
SEVEN) mighty bassets!

Houndservant is not making this up: each one wore a red sweater and a hat
straight out of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! And each had a name woven
in the sweater, yup: Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey.... and
Sneezy, who must certainly be Foxy in dream form!

They were doing the Basset 500. Even Sleepy.

Which got Houndservant thinking... Maybe it was NOT an indigestion-fueled
phantasm from last night's cheezy fries! Maybe it was NOT triggered by
recently watching Disney's new Maleficent on the Big Screen!

Maybe it is prescient! Maybe it is psychic! Perhaps a doG-given Vision Of
Things To Come!!!

O! The Future in Howling Technicolor!

Perhaps Houndservant will one day receive orders to serve as dogrobber to 7
magnificent beasties named after the famous dwarfs!​
​

Although there are better names... after 4 Daisy dog fosters in 18 months,
Houndservant is developing a "hurricane list" for shelter personnel... name
'em by alphabet, move on to the next letter before rinse-and-repeat to
avoid unfortunate dupes... names like Toulouse; Gumby; Sluggo; Scout;
Piper; Jasper--Houndservant WILL serve under a Jasper before this Tour of
Duty is over; Rastus; Ruby; Hoover and Eureka; Tinker and/or Bell... O! the
possibilities! Foxy should really be called Indi, short for Independant,
because she sure is...

​That would be the life... surrounded by a circle of vertically-challenged,
howling, counter-chasing, nefarious, conniving hounds!

Houndservant knows of those possessed by a personal herd of bassets... O!
The Joy! The WORK! The yearning in this servant's heart!

Guess the HMS Santa Rosa needs to take on a few more fosters....

On second thought, perhaps Houndservant should DUCK AND COVER.

Bwaahaaahaaa! Who serves whom????

Lt. Lea
HMS Santa Rosa
Looking to staff UP!​
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