April 7th 2008 1:02 pm
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I know it's been almost 4 weeks since my last diary entry for Oliver and since then he's been recovering wonderfully! He's been making improvements everyday. I would say he runs pretty darn fast for only 3 legs! He now races up the stairs without trying to use his imaginary leg. The first few times he did that I had to hold back the gasps because it sounded like it hurt. We have a lot of hard wood floors and the stairs are hardwood too. It's an old house too, so there's 17 steps up instead of the standard 13. It would be nice to carpet them but they are too narrow and I've already fallen 3 times down them in past years:(
After awhile Mia, Ollie's best friend in the house, stopped hissing at him. He smelled like the vet's plus the whole bedroom and bathroom area that I kept him sequestered in really took on the smell too. Now, in the mornings we wake up to them wrestling around. It's so sweet how they play together.
Oh, big news this last weekend! Ollie jumped in the clawfoot tub again! (I'll post those photo's.) Unfortunately Mia didn't join him like she normally does. It's great to see him getting back to doing some of the normal things he used to do.
The one sad thing that he still tries to do is scratch with his now imaginary leg to his itchy ear or chin:( I guess I should show him that his front paw could do that for him. Hopefully he'll figure this out on his own.