Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 227, which we are recording on Thursday, September 10th, 2020.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And I can't wait until we stop saying 2020.

Yes, I know. And I can't wait until we're out of the 220s. It's just too many twos right now.

Yes. Because it's been another couple weeks. It has been. It seems like every time we podcast, there's something else that's happened.

There is.

Yeah.

My poor dog, Lucy, my black lab I've talked about on the podcast for six years now, has tetanus.

So we discovered a week ago, we thought her face looked a little bit swollen and we were watching her very

carefully assumed she'd been bit by a spider or, you know, tried to eat a bee or something. She's done

that before. And her face just started getting we're weirder and weirder. So we took her into

the emergency veterinarian because no veterinarians in Santa Cruz have open appointments. Apparently

during COVID, everybody's getting pets. That's what I have heard. Yeah, every veterinarian I called

was double booked, triple booked, or not taking new patients. So we took her to the emergency vet

and just dropped her off saying her face is swollen. We don't know what's wrong with her. And we got a

call back from the vet and he said, well, you know, I don't see any swelling in her face. Would you say

that these are things you're seeing? Are her ears pinned back? And we said, yes, her ears just look

odd. And he said, and do her eyes look different? We said, yeah, but we thought it was swelling. And he said, no,

your dog has tetanus. And it's very, very rare for dogs to get tetanus. We still don't know how

exactly she contracted it. She could have stepped on something and we never saw an injury, which is

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