Something’s up with Red, he has been gulping huge amounts of water and experienced a sudden and sharp weight gain – eight pounds in just a month. He’s being tested for a bladder infection and we’re doing a screen to check on his kidneys. He is alert and active, sleeping and eating well, my guess is a bladder infection but I’ll know in a half-hour or so. I have to say the Cambridge Valley Veterinary staff was impressive, chasing Red outside with a plastic try to get a urine sample in the brutal cold, they did it in a minute.

Red was at the groomers today and Eileen Quackenbush, our groomer told me Red had gulped down four bowls of water, I noticed him gulping water from the heated bucket in the pasture as well.