So, Zim had his birthday party today. It wasn't actually his birthday, but his birthday is this coming Tuesday and Saturdays work much better for parties so we had it today. Anyway, it was wildly successful. There was a cake for the people (of whom there were about 11) with his picture on it as well as some "cake" for Zim (his hypoalergenic food mixed together with fish oil and wrapped in bacon). Then he got his presents (all wrapped in the same box), which he unwrapped himself and really adored. He got a new Kong Wobbler (since his old one is kind of torn up), an IQ Ball and an Invinciblez Snake. I think he might get a bit frustrated with the Treat Ball, but he was totally taken with the snake. He squeaked that thing just forever. Good decision on my part to get that for him, I think.
So, now, pictures and video from the big event!!
The cake that the humans got (Zim wanted some too, but unfortunately for Birthday Boy, he is on an allergy trial).
The video of Zim opening his presents. It's actually 3 videos put together, because I took it with a normal digital camera instead of a video camer, but you get most of it.
Birthday Boy was so pooped after his party that he just could not bother to care when we draped his new squeaky snake over him.
So, Zim has probably always had some sort of light allergy. He's always had dry skin and he's always scratched and chewed at himself, although once we took him off a chicken-based food, it was never to the point where he was losing fur (and even then, it was very bad at all, people that weren't me and Fathead didn't notice at all). Well, this last week we noticed he's scratched some fur off his face and cut himself, so we took him to the vet. Turned out he had one (yes, one) live demodex mite there, so that's why he's scratching. We're not even treating it because the vet thinks he'll fight it off himself since it's such a mild case (at first they thought all the mites were dead). But, based on his history we did decide to go ahead and start him on an allergy food trial. This makes me so sad. At first I only thought it would be slightly inconvenient but now I know that it's super sad.
Zim's first birthday is coming up and I was going to make him a cake. No idea how I'm going to do that now. So, yeah, I cried. And I'm hoping to figure out a good solution. Maybe there are some other foods out there with hydrolyzed protein that I could turn into an awesome treat for him? It just feels really lame to be turning his normal food into a cake. I may actually even call his vet and see if there are other things I can feed him in order to make this one day work. :(
What's worse, the holidays are coming up. My boy is going to miss out on turkey and al manner of good stuff. Plus, we now have to carry treats on us so people can given him treats in stores, since we have to control what he eats.
