I may be a pup but I am for sure life can be much better than this. My name is Kalu. I am not even a one year old Tibetan spaniel and some pretty yucky things are getting in the way of me just being a pup. It all started about four months ago. That’s when my big sister Pinuki (I call her Nuki) woke up screaming like I don’t know what. I was definitely too young to hear all that stuff. Anyway, Nuki is a 7 year old Bernese Mountain Dog. My two legged Mom got all hysterical and took Nuki to our doctor. Just when I thought Mom couldn’t get more hysterical she did - doc discovered a large mass on the left side of Nuki’s neck and said “I’ve never seen anything like this before” (that was the first time I heard that but not the last). I heard Mom say “the c word” lots of times and I kept noticing water in her eyes. But anyway I am kinda sick about talking about all this so I am gonna try to make this shorter than usual.
What happened next I figured out from all the grown up talking and from my brain which is pretty smart if you ask me. Two leggers kept giving Nuki tests and I am proud to say, Sis kept passing them! So, they kept giving her harder tests like the one she had to take in a round, hard tunnel where they took pictures of her neck. But she passed that too. She got a lipoma and not “the c word.” Our mom was so proud. She was happy but cried anyway. But something very bad happened the day of the tunnel test. Before going into the tunnel, the new doc gave Nuki some stuff to help her sleep. That is when Sis’s left nostril started to bleed – for the first time EVER - and things have been very bad ever since.
It has been three long months (in two legger time) - which is a big chunk of my puppyhood – that my family is all messed up. Those stupid nosebleeds will not leave my sister alone. She is the best test taker in my world. The best doctors in the world have been testing my sis and she passes all their tests every time. Nuki should get bully sticks, but all she gets is more nosebleeds, two blood transfusions and an operation which made a tie of her carotid artery (whatever that is). She is a little bit better from the operation, but something very, very, very sad – I almost cannot even think about it because it hurts my heart so much – happened today. Now Pinuki is bleeding out of both nostrils.
And now I am mad (not rabies mad) but MAD! My sister is the best sister I have ever had (even when she sneezes on me and mom calls me Jackson Pollock puppy). If those nosebleeds would leave her alone, she would be more than all better. All the tests she took prove she is healthy. No c word or any other stuff that makes us flunk tests. On all her test reports the docs write what “a sweet girl” my Sis is but nosebleeds don’t care anymore about sweetness than they do about tests!
This life is most bad for Nuki, then me, then mom. [But really me; I am too young to be waxing nostalgically about my lost puppyhood especially since it is not even over!] The good news is that my mom is delaying my spay surgery cux she can’t even afford the reduced rates. I keep seeing the good side of all this, but mom is way too worried and Nuki is too busy sneezing and cleaning up after herself. She is a very polite dog.
