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he territory. She was also not used to all the noise (road and people passing by).
When people pass by she goes berserk, barking at them; she goes to attack them but she keeps wagging her tail. She has always been physical. I cannot control her from jumping up to people. On walks she barks at everything, unless we are in a field and there is nothing there. When she was young we hardly ever came across people on our walks. She does the same to other dogs; her reaction is sudden/immediate. The other dogs are a bit taken aback.
At the vets I leave her in the car, because of all the noise she creates in the consult room. She gets stressed out. I can make her stop by hanging on to her collar. I cannot work out the barking”. (I give her some treats and she takes them reasonably gently (= without hurting my fingers), wagging her tail a bit nervously).
She does not always know where the noise comes from. Even my voice she sometime thinks it come from somewhere else. It is almost as if her hearing is acute but she cannot locate where the noise comes from. Before Allie died, I took in another dog, because Allie and Rosie were so close. Rosie bonded with this dog straight away. This new dog was a rascal and took Rosie’s attention. Allie was not well and I was not well either. When Allie died, Rosie seemed not affected. I think she is quite sensible though, because she took Allies position straight away.’’
I ask: can you tell more about sensitive? ‘’I am not sure why I said that. With previous dogs I had you never knew, with Rosie she is much more open. It is easier to see, what she is thinking; you can read her better. Her body behaviour tells you what she is feeling. She is more predictable; you know when something is ok or not. She was leaking urine and she was not comfortable with it (spayed bitch incontinence, easily controlled by IncurinTM).’’ (She comes up to me,
jumps up twice and then soon walks off and sits between her owner and me).
‘’She loves the disc we throw, she catches it and walks around with it, nobody else can have it. She was a bit thin, when young and had a bald patch on her chest. This all improved after Allie died. She had one season before spaying – it was normal. I think she liked taking over her mum’s job. Initially I thought there was something wrong with her. She now comes back and checks on me. Before, even when I was very ill, she did not bother, the two dogs just went on playing. She is not affected by anything. She likes sitting under trees.
She has selective hearing, when it comes to obedience. I can count 95% on her. When you tell her to sit, she will do so immediately the majority of the time but sometimes it is not clear, whether she has heard you and you have to get to her to make her sit; she will do so without looking at you, she just stands there.’’
I ask; what is the most important thing to her? “Gosh, I do not know. We lost the other dog recently and she came with me looking for him even though she now thinks he can be a nuisance. She has a special bond with the dog sitter, she is so delighted to see her, she seems more delighted to see her than me.’’
There are no particular modalities that come with the toe arthritis. They are sore when she walks too much on harder ground. But as per usual, as the problem was bilateral, the owner was not really aware of the problem till I had pointed it out to her.
Solution:
There are many things in this case we can speculate about but the things the owner was most surprise about is how Rosie had filled in the job of looking after her. It was almost too proper. The other thing that did strike me was this
difficulty with knowing, where the sound came from, even though she seemed quite obedient.
Kali bich seemed a good proposal in my repertorisation. The remedy is about limits in time and space. There are plenty of themes relating to limits in this case:
• Why did the owner open with problems to do with a removal? This removal reduced the limits of the space available to the dogs: both where they lived and on walks.
• Rosie took over from her mum juts like that: from one day to another: there was no real period of grief etc.
• She changed soon after: weight and bald patch (a bald patch has a limit of course)
• She seems very much black and white in her responses. A bit of fuss and that is it. When forced to make her sit, she does not look at her owner.
• She was very barky at other dogs, way over the top: limits in territory... . The other dogs were taken aback by her reaction.
Kali bich: the remedy relating to ‘limits’: limits in time and space... illness is limited in time and space.
Well. It was worth trying: Kali bich LM3 daily.
January 2016
She took the remedy for a month. She had some sort of a fit a few days before I see her, she may have had a few of these previously (not mentioned in the first consultation). She stood with her head down with chin on the floor, then staggered and fell over. She was back to normal in 5 minutes.
Her toes are much better. The toes are straight again but are still splayed. She is more alive, more energetic; she is doing more her own thing again. She is more chilled out. She is happy to walk on the hard surfaces again. She still has difficulties at times to know, where a noise comes from, this is the same. The barking is still bad. It is a fierce
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