Raising Milo
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Your dog has ten years. Maybe twelve.
Those years are made of small things. You have already seen a few of them this week, without knowing that is what they were.
- One scoop, twice a day. Nobody ever told you how much a scoop is.
- He yawns, and the back teeth have gone brown.
- Stiff for the first ten minutes every morning. Fine after that.
- He sleeps more than he used to. You cannot say when that started.
- You had a question at the vet. It came back to you in the car.
Not one of them looked like anything at the time.
90 Things Nobody Told Me About Keeping a Dog Well
Two dogs, ten years, and everything I got wrong with the first one. Written down at last, one page each.
- The scoop. What I weighed it at, and what the number on the bag never said.
- The back teeth. The one night a week I do them, and what I should have started at four months.
- Stiff mornings. The floors, the stairs and the walk I changed before he asked me to.
- The sleeping. What I write down each month, so I can tell a slow change from a bad week.
- The appointment. The list I take in with me, so nothing comes back to me in the car.
- And 85 more, one page each, across the nine sections.
The book is in nine sections. Here is what is in each one.
The nine sections
- The bowl. What goes in it, how much, and the Sunday habit that told me I had been guessing.
- His weight. The two-minute check I do with my hands, and what the vet is actually looking at.
- Teeth and breath. The one night a week that made the difference, and what I stopped buying.
- Moving. Stairs, slippery floors, the car, and the walk that suits him rather than me.
- His head. What a bored dog does at six, and the ten minutes at four that prevent it.
- Sleep. Where he sleeps now, why I moved the bed twice, and what he does at three in the morning.
- Coat, ears and paws. The ten minutes on a Sunday that catch things while they are small.
- The vet. What I write down before we go, what I ask, and the folder I keep it all in.
- The years that come. What changed at seven, and everything I do differently now.
The small things, written down at last.
What you receive · three files, by email
- The book. 90 things, one page each, across nine sections.
- The Sunday card. One page to print. The ten-minute check, in the order I do it.
- The month page. One page to print, so a change shows up while it is still small.
$12 once
The three files, sent to your email straight away, and yours to keep.
Not on sale yet.
The book is being written. This page is here so you can see what is coming.
Read it on your phone, or print it. No account, no password, nothing to install.