The dog eats!

The latest on the pooch is that she’s eating — woo hoo!!

She moped around yesterday, refusing to eat in the morning and walking around hangdog (I now can understand how the expression came into being). ButAnnie and her sister Susan got Honey to play a bit outside and the vet gave her some steroids to jumpstart the appetite and things have been looking up.

She ate some pastina and chicken broth last night and then some dog food and some biscuits. Then, when I got home at about 10 p.m., she ate a little more — including the milk from my bowl of cereal (she loves the leftover milk).

We are still not sure what it was — and may never know. The vet was perplexed and we were prepared to take her to a specialist in Tinton Falls on Friday. That’s looking unnecessary and we’re finally starting to exhale.

The picture, by the way, is from the spring when she was in good health and before we renovated our kitchen. I think it proves that she’s always been a bit neureotic.

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Author: hankkalet

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.

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