Pazzo on Jan 10

The staples came out yesterday.  Did not have a problem with the removal.  Pazz was very good about it.  However I noticed later that evening that his right eye was a little teary so I waited until today to call about it to see if it would clear up.  It didn't so we were back at the vet's again.  Three times now within a week.  Any way, I have some ointment to apply two times a day for a week.  If the problem isn't cleared up by then, the vet may go ahead and snip a little skin to tighten up the lid.  Now is a wait and see. 

Any way, we are still having issues with bowel movements.  He is awfully loose for the most part.  He is now taking a probiotic pill once a day and we have him on a special gastrointestinal food formula for a week and then start weaning him back on regular puppy food.  On Sunday night/Monday morning Pazzo was out 4 times between 10 PM and 3 AM.  My wife also let him out last night around 11 but he did sleep the rest of the night.  We don't know what the problem is.  He does do better on adult food but still has a very soft stool even with that.  We did a stool sample last week but nothing showed up but we didn't test for giardia or one other possibility (don't know the name) because those are usually only picked up in warmer weather.  The one saving thing in all of this is he does let us know he needs out by whining about it.  Yahtzee, our last CCI puppy didn't say a word; he would just go and wake us up after the fact with the smell and him walking around the kennel trying to get away from it.  Pazzo has not had one accident in the house, knock on wood.  If he needs to go he knows to just go to the back door and sit down.  I love it.  Yahtzee wouldn't tell us ever.  We just had a schedule and stuck to it. 

Pazzo is a really nice dog.  We have started taking walks and he doesn't pull or lag.  He seems very happy to walk with me.  I  usually take Curt with me so Pazzo can learn how to react to things from watching him.  He is just a little skitish but not bad.  This is just so different from his foster home in the country; so many new sounds and things so he will get better.  He is not real consistent yet but he sits when we stop, knows let's go, is learning to stay, knows down but not real consistent with that either.  We have a small kitchen and Pazz just gets in the way so he is learning where the boundary is as well as learning he can't go down the hall or to the front door.  He waits to be let out and to come back in also.  He also has learned lap and up already.  He really is a good student.  He usually conks out around 7, goes out for the night, hopefully around 9 and then back to kennel.  Except for the bowel problems a really nice dog.  Oh yeah, even with all the poop, 32.8 lbs today up four tenths from last week.