The doggy returns

My puppy is home. We picked her up tonight from the vet’s office and she’s moping around a bit.

The vet thought she was doing OK and that we could take it day by day with her at home.

She ate a bit of food today — a couple of burgers, if you can believe it — and kept it down. Once home she reverted to her new finicky habits, refusing a dog biscuit, eating a couple of small slices of cheese then refusing more.

I’m trying not to worry — perhaps she is trying to reacclimate. They took good care of her at the vet’s office (Annie and I are going to get a complex, thinking Honey wants new parents) and we may have too quickly tried to get food in her here.

I’m going to let her relax and not force anything on her.

And then we’ll wait.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet