Thoughts...

 Hoping to take on a 2nd dog. I found an association in France that is contact with a rescue organization in Spain that rescues a type of dog called Galgos.

A Galgos is a Spanish Greyhound. …They are smaller than greyhounds…heir back end is higher than their front and they have a crazy long tail. Spain is notorious

for animal cruelty for some reason…especially dogs. 

I found a sweet looking mix…like my do kate…black with the body of a Galgos but maybe mixed with late.

He is in Spain still. I put in an application and am waiting to hear.

No english is spoken so I use translate. I have to remind myself that like everything in France, nothing moves quickly. I heard once back asking a few questions

and then nothing. I keep sending photos of the enclosure here and info on me. I have to work on the enclosure as there are gaps. I am hoping for a dog that doesn’t want to escape.

but I am so frustrated with the process. I can’t get an answer. 

I would drive to Nimes, France to pick him up. Nimes is in Provence….about 3 hrs and on the highway. I would rent a car.

There was also a similar dog listed in an organization in France that has dogs from Romania and this dog is in Italy. He’s not a Galgos but a very cute little black dog.

I have had a hell of a time trying to communicate with them. I had given up and am focusing on the Galgos as it is only 7 months old.

I had no idea how emotional the whole thing is for me. It hit some kind of nerve.

My original thinking was that I needed a 2nd dog for Emile to perk him up. He is such a social boy that he needs company. I am also a 2 dog person….

Emile’s back end is filled with arthritis and I know he is in pain at times. He can’t settle and I am daily massaging and exercising his legs. He is also on glucosimine.

When I came back from Italy he was not well at all. I got him into the vet right away and she gave him a shot of antibodies…a new treatment for arthritis…it was amazing…in 4 days he seemed about 5 years younger,

but, it only lasts for a month.

I dropped him for a few hours with the dog sitter on Thursday just so he could play and friday he was not well…slept most of the day and fight me about eating enough. He is very thin but

usually eats a lot. He has been picking t his dinner.

I am now thinking the culprit in the situation is peas. I buy frozen vegetables and steam them with a piece of frozen fish and some fresh vegetables and serve on rice…They have this veg mix

called Macedonian Vegetables…I just like the name…but it’s carrots, peas, something white and a few other things…I think the peas might be the issue. 

He didn’t eat enough yesterday and it got me upset. I worry it signals decline. 

and I can’t seem to get anywhere with these rescue people to help him…it upset me so much.

This morning he got up and was super sassy…so I was happy to see that…then, I mixed up a sardine with cold pasta and he ate all of that…pre breakfast. I think the more I worry about

something the more it’s gonna happen. 

add to the mix that I want to go to Tuscany at the end of October which is quickly approaching…..but if I got a new dog, I couldn’t’ go…and…I worry that Emile gets worse every time 

I return…but, the dog sitter tells me that he is fine, he plays, eats all of his food and is happy. Maybe he just needs a day or 2 to recover when he gets back home…

so, everything is up in the air…just where I don’t want it.