I’m glad to say that it’s not really due to my new sisters although they are still really annoying, I keep having to tell them who the boss is. This week it’s my big brother Peppar who I’ve been thinking about.
On Monday Peppar went up to the animal doctor hospital, mummy took him up early in the morning and he stayed up there all day. Peppar had been making funny noises with his mouth and had started to eat my pate food rather than his normal Felix pouches. He had said to me that his teeth hurt and so this is why he was at the animal doctor hospital. Being up there is very difficult for him, he’s always been a bit highly strung and gets very scared at having to leave home. The strange smells and sounds at the hospital make him even worse so he hisses and growls and gets very stressed and upset when he’s there. Mummy and daddy try everything to avoid having to take him but sometimes he just has to go, this was one of those times. He came home in the evening but was a bit messy as the animal doctors hadn’t been able to clean him up as he was so grumpy so mummy had to bath him. He was very good with this but was very quiet and a bit dopey for the rest of the evening so I left him alone to recover.
Mummy said he was on some medicine to help ease the pain as he had some of his bad teeth taken out. Mummy and daddy looked after him and gave him his medicine at home to help make him better. Mummy and daddy said he should get better in a few days. As each day passed Peppar didn’t seem to get any better, he didn’t eat and slept and dribbled a lot.
Mummy has got lots of experience with this type of thing and has tried everything she can think of to tempt him into taking even the smallest mouthful. Tuna in his special bowl, pate food, she even tried feeding him off her finger so all he had to do was lick and swallow and not even chew, she even tried liquidising his favourite Felix but none of it helped. Peppar is normally a very greedy boy, waking mummy early at weekends so she gets out of bed to dish out breakfast. This is why mummy and daddy are so worried and why mummy took him back to the animal doctor hospital to see if there was anything else they could give her to try to help him at home. She said that the only other option was for him to stay in the hospital with the animal doctors looking after him but he really wouldn’t like that so we must try everything to try to make him better. The animal doctor gave mummy some more medicine and some food for Peppar that he could just lick and is high in calories to help him. Mummy gives him his medicine and tried getting him to lick up the food but he didn’t want to, maybe it doesn’t smell very nice. Mummy and daddy have now started to put the liquid food into a plastic thing and squirting it into Peppars mouth, he doesn’t like this and not all of it goes in as he squirms and mummy’s aim isn’t very good, they all get a very messy.
I know mummy and daddy have been very worried about Peppar and I have missed his support when trying to get along with Millie and Angelin. He’s normally the one who tells me to behave and not to be scared and tells me everything is going to be ok. This week though I’ve had to tell him that, I’ve been trying to make him feel better and haven’t tried to play with him or jump on him. I’ve also made sure that the little ones don’t go near him either as they’re both very excitable. When Mummy put Peppar on her pillow at night to snuggle with her (this is one of his favourite places) I’ve snuggled at the bottom of the bed to keep an eye on him, I’ve been very quiet about it but he knows I’m there for him.
All week I’ve been trying to be really good for mummy and daddy and taking their minds off things. I’ve been making sure that mummy takes me out for walkies evey day, she can then get some fresh air and exercise and watch me climb the trees and run after the autumn leaves. I’ve been snuggling with them on the bed and getting daddy to put his damp bath towel out so I can lie on it. I’ve been spending time out on the balcony, helping mummy feed the birds 🐦. Anything I can do to help take their minds off worrying about Peppar. I’ve been trying to get along with my new sisters and following Peppars example of how to be a good older sibling.
Millie has been helping too as she also loves to play fetch and has been playing with daddy, she’s very talkative and demanding when playing so keeps daddy very busy throwing her nobbly ball down the corridor over and over and over again. Angelin has been helping in her own little way too, whenever she plays, she’s so quick and mad that it makes mummy and daddy laugh
I’ve been trying really hard this week and I hope that he gets better really soon. I miss snuggling with him and him looking after me.
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