Otto, the neighbour
Otto came for a visit on Monday evening and it seemed like he wasn’t himself. He was quite weak and did not even take the food I was offering him. So I let him take a rest without bothering him too much.
He was still here the next evening and did not want food nor drink. He hasn’t even gone to the toilet.
Late that night I took him for a vet with the neighbour (he is 60 kg’s, so too heavy for one person to carry) and it turned out he was having a heart attack. He was medicated and then we came back here and Otto stayed in my place. At 3 AM (3 hours later) he wanted to go out and let him thinking he would come back. He just kept going and did not came back.
In the morning I was looking for him because it was time for his nitro medication. It seems that he had disappeared. After 1 hour later he suddenly turned up waving his tail. I was afraid that we would find him in his last rest but he seemed to be back to normal.
This video clip is taken today, just couple of days after his heart attack. He spotted us going for a walk in the forest and wanted to came too. It was much shorter walk than usual because I did not want him to have another heart attack.
Michelle, Baxter & Finley writes:
19.11.2008 at 13:55
I think you need to tell Otto to take it easy. Especially with this very cold weather which is moving over here this weekend. He needs to sit infront of a fire, relax and put his paws up.
I am hoping to get a fire & a fire place installed so that the bad boys & I can use it when we have a power cut. We have 6 a year & it gets very cold very quickly.
Otto does look like he is having fun with Eddie & Alfie.
sari writes:
20.11.2008 at 17:21
Otto sometimes lays down in from the of fireplace but not for too long. His coat is so thick. I have deleted the photos of Otto enjoying fireplace warmth by accident (and many other photos too).
We just had a power cut last Monday due to the storm. I mainly warm up the house with the fireplace as it traps the warmth and moves it to the rooms (the fireplace is so big that is has “heating space” for the whole house area). If it gets very cold then we also use heat pump until -20C. For colder than that, you need the normal electric heating system (radiator).