Okay, I don't have long but I wanted to post this really quick...
Today was Cooper's photo shoot in the park (we didn't go to the botanical gardens... they charged a fee for any kind of portrait-taking) and I got to meet Cooper's half-sister Maya and her momma, Jen ... both were very cool!
Cooper ran around and had fun but it was 105 degrees and he got pretty hot, pretty quick. But being the supermom that I am, I had a bottle of ice water in my bag, so I whipped it out, poured it into Cooper's travel bowl and both he and Maya started drinking it all down. Wait before you praise me though... (I knew you were going to; I could feel it.)
So, we'd been out there almost 45 minutes and it was so hot, we may as well have been standing on the surface of the sun... or perhaps living in a really large oven. Anywho, Maya and Cooper started to tire out, of course, and we all sat down. THEN, I got the poopsies scared out of me.
Cooper started to walk off from us and I noticed he looked drunk, stumbling and falling over. I grabbed him and thought he may have just gotten overheated and poured ice water on his back which then sent him into a shaking fit and I almost flipped out completely. Jen, Maya's mom, said "do you have any Nutrical? That looks like hypoglycemia."
Well, here's where I have to make an admission. I have NEVER seen a chihuahua have a hypoglycemic episode and I have always thought all you people and your nutrical this and nutrical that were just plain crazy. I'll even admit that I just rolled my eyes every time someone mentioned it for new puppy owners.
Yeah... well.... ummm.... Cooper eats one meal a day, at 5pm. It was about 5pm but with the addition of the heat, etc... yeah. And I didn't have any nutrical, of course. Neither did Jen - but I DID have treats!!! So I started grabbing the treats and he was eating them faster than I could get them out of the bag. (Don't worry, I found time to toss Maya a treat now and again - we're not rude, even when we're having seizures!)
Once he had about half a box of treats in his belly, I gave him some of my soda since it was the only sugary thing I had and, a few minutes later, he was back to "normal".
So first, I would like to let everyone know Cooper is just fine; we came home, he ate dinner then he ate a little pot roast and gravy, so he's living the good life. Secondly, I would like to apologize to EVERYONE that I have rolled my eyes at when I read posts about nutrical and how we should all carry it with us. I'll be buying some - maybe tomorrow, but if not, definitely Monday. Third, no, I'm not okay... I'm still shaking from the whole thing - that's just not fun at all. Hopefully, I'll be better tomorrow.
Pics will be forthcoming. Jen said she'd get them to me in the next few days!!
Today was Cooper's photo shoot in the park (we didn't go to the botanical gardens... they charged a fee for any kind of portrait-taking) and I got to meet Cooper's half-sister Maya and her momma, Jen ... both were very cool!
Cooper ran around and had fun but it was 105 degrees and he got pretty hot, pretty quick. But being the supermom that I am, I had a bottle of ice water in my bag, so I whipped it out, poured it into Cooper's travel bowl and both he and Maya started drinking it all down. Wait before you praise me though... (I knew you were going to; I could feel it.)
So, we'd been out there almost 45 minutes and it was so hot, we may as well have been standing on the surface of the sun... or perhaps living in a really large oven. Anywho, Maya and Cooper started to tire out, of course, and we all sat down. THEN, I got the poopsies scared out of me.
Cooper started to walk off from us and I noticed he looked drunk, stumbling and falling over. I grabbed him and thought he may have just gotten overheated and poured ice water on his back which then sent him into a shaking fit and I almost flipped out completely. Jen, Maya's mom, said "do you have any Nutrical? That looks like hypoglycemia."
Well, here's where I have to make an admission. I have NEVER seen a chihuahua have a hypoglycemic episode and I have always thought all you people and your nutrical this and nutrical that were just plain crazy. I'll even admit that I just rolled my eyes every time someone mentioned it for new puppy owners.
Yeah... well.... ummm.... Cooper eats one meal a day, at 5pm. It was about 5pm but with the addition of the heat, etc... yeah. And I didn't have any nutrical, of course. Neither did Jen - but I DID have treats!!! So I started grabbing the treats and he was eating them faster than I could get them out of the bag. (Don't worry, I found time to toss Maya a treat now and again - we're not rude, even when we're having seizures!)
Once he had about half a box of treats in his belly, I gave him some of my soda since it was the only sugary thing I had and, a few minutes later, he was back to "normal".
So first, I would like to let everyone know Cooper is just fine; we came home, he ate dinner then he ate a little pot roast and gravy, so he's living the good life. Secondly, I would like to apologize to EVERYONE that I have rolled my eyes at when I read posts about nutrical and how we should all carry it with us. I'll be buying some - maybe tomorrow, but if not, definitely Monday. Third, no, I'm not okay... I'm still shaking from the whole thing - that's just not fun at all. Hopefully, I'll be better tomorrow.
Pics will be forthcoming. Jen said she'd get them to me in the next few days!!
