Smee: Ollie

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Story 1

The funniest episode was with Ollie. He had something stuck in his throat and it was making him cough really hard. I got worried and took him to the vet. The vet examined his throat and said that whatever had been in there was gone now, but his throat was all sore, and that made him cough more, and that made his throat even more painful which made him cough even more; it was a vicious cycle.

So the vet gave Ollie two injections. One for the pain, and the second was a mild tranquilizer because he was all stressed out and scared. Ollie, not the vet.

Have you ever seen a stoned dog? He tried to sit up on the way home from the vet and kept falling over. When we arrived home, he shambled into the house and flopped on the living room floor. Buddy brought toys for him, dropping them mostly on Ollie's head, trying to entice him to play and Ollie wasn't having any of it. When he wanted to go outside to pee, I had to help him. He couldn't stand on three legs himself so I had to hold one back leg up and steady him so he didn't fall down. It was funny and pitiful at the same time.