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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Wanted to let you know that Duke is doing better. He has what the vet said was Disco Spondylosis. I don’t think it means that he got it from doing his disco moves…… or maybe I misheard what she said. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:blue'>J</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Anyhow, he is responding, or the pain meds are helping him be able to stand some. She did say with this type infection, it can take 3-4 weeks to see the antibiotics work. So I think he might just be overcoming the lameness with the help of his pain meds. He will come home later today after they check to make sure he is urinating as he is supposed to. Apparently the bladder can become full and sort of overflow? Which she thinks happened yesterday. When I brought him in, I had seen him poop, but he would not urinate, so I thought maybe he had done so when I didn’t see him, but was told his bladder was very full. The infection can prevent them from realizing they have a full bladder. That can cause problems such as UTI, which he does not have, but we need to keep an eye on this.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>We will use an x-pen to keep him separate, more so to be able to monitor his water intake and also to make sure no one bumps him. He is still favoring his back leg, but it does respond much better to stimuli this morning. We will let Duchess be in there with him, I think she is really worried without him here. As much as she henpecks him, and he lets her, they really love each other. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Thank you all for your kind messages, I am very hopeful we can get him through all this. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Wen and the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><a href="http://www.seniorhoundsabound.org">www.seniorhoundsabound.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></body></html>