Oh Aristotle what are we going to do with you? Mum took him to the vet yesterday. Not to put too fine a point on it, he\u2019s been having blood in his poo. Not like when Shadow does, but the poo being black. Mum is concerned that he\u2019s got a slight bleed somewhere, but it only happens every few days. Anyway, the vet has suggested he has a scan so he\u2019s going in for that on Monday. While he was there though she checked his heart. His murmur has got worse. It\u2019s gone from a grade one to a grade three, which is quite a lot of change in a short time. He\u2019s going to have that scanned while he\u2019s there so we can find out if he needs any treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The funny thing was when the vet asked if Mum had noticed any change in him wanting to exercise. That question always makes Mum laugh where Aristotle is concerned. He\u2019s the laziest dog we know. Even when he goes out for a walk he asks to come home as soon as he\u2019s been to the toilet. How he comes to count as a working dog is beyond us. He\u2019s more suited to desk based work than anything which involves movement. Mum said if he slowed down any more then he wouldn\u2019t bother getting out of bed at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is however the cuddliest dog and very attached to Mum. He didn\u2019t want to go into the vet\u2019s without her and was very happy to see she was still there when he came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Aristotle does best is find a sunny spot and then lie in it. He loves where is crate is now as that gets the sun during the day. The biggest problem is that he keeps wanting to go back to his crate to make the most of it. Mum says she wouldn\u2019t change him and it wouldn\u2019t do for us all to be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh Aristotle – Wilma is concerned for our big bear of a dog. He needs to have a scan. He might be the world’s laziest dog but we love him as he is.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-22180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-aristotle","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}