Those that follow me on Facebook probably already know that Penelope the pug had a very scary fall down the stairs. Very typical of this city, our place has several flights of extremely steep stairs. In fact, the stairs up to the second floor basically come up into the middle of the room and create a pit to the next floor on one side.
We knew that Penelope is losing her sight and depth perception with those stairs may be an issue. We didn't realize how bad her sight is, however, until getting into the city where there are many more objects to run into and stairs to fall down.
So, of course the first evening we are here she "went off the deep end" of the stairs. I saw her life flash before my eyes! She basically jumped up and walked it off. I couldn't believe it! The next day she had another spill down a different set of stairs that tore off a nail completely. I found a vet about a 10 minute walk from our place that I took her to yesterday. She got a clean bill of health and was prescribed puppy pain killers.
So, lesson learned!! She is now relegated to our bedroom with the door closed. She spends most of her time relaxing in her crate anyway. I also have to carry her down the 3 flights of winding stairs it takes to get to the street when it's time for a bathroom break. I'm just glad she is alright. She's 85 in human years!!!
Oh, one other thing I wanted to mention is that we are on a major tourist canal, so these really long boats full of tourists are constantly crusing by taking photos and gawking. Whenever I see one if I'm near the window, I have been waiving to them. In the coming weeks I am going to be featured in numerous photo slide shows in Asia. Ha ha...
This is outside of a restaurant down the street from us. I don't have much to say about it except that it's weird...
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