Petey's Very Good Trip

We took a quick trip to Tuscaloosa this weekend for John to attend an all class reunion at his high school. If you've read this blog for any amount of time at all, you know that Petey is not good in the car, so we drug him. He fights the effects of the doggie downer with every thing he's got. He's, once again, like a toddler that is sleepy. As soon as he is just about out, he has to move. We prepared ourselves once again for this situation. Then it didn't happen, or at least not to the general extreme.

We gave Petey his pill about 30 minutes before we left Saturday morning. He was too worried about leaving (or being left) to even notice. He insisted on waiting in the car, even though it was still quite chilly out. He did his usual back & forth between the front & back seats for a while, but settled much more quickly than he has in the past. I was even beginning to worry that maybe we'd given him too much. He is older now, and just might not need enough.

We we got to T-town, he got out of the car and could hardly walk. He staggered around outside for a while, but perked up pretty quickly. He recognized the place where we were, and was glad to be there in spite of the cats. He raised the alert level quickly and protected us from the cats the whole time we were there.

We only gave him half a pill on the way home. He was a little more fidgety and really didn't settle in to one place until we were in Franklin! He's on the couch now sleeping it off.

For Petey, however this was a very good trip.