The third time, now.
Sick,
four weeks later: sick,
six weeks later:sick.
Same symptoms started last Friday: Third eyelid a blue gray color. Eyes very weak. Lethargic. Off her feed. Slight temperature. Tail hanging down

On Saturday:
I went down to the pen after I put some redfish on the grill near dark. Lucy looked a lot better after her trip to the vet, Dr. Caldwell on Sportsman Drive in Phenix City, Alabama. Tail was up and wagging. Eyes were clearer, more normal though still with a tint of the grey blue. The vet gave her a shot and put her on amoxicillin. The same as last time, though this time he did a blood workup.

We had taken Lucy with us on the exercise that morning so we could keep an eye on her.

She stayed at my feet, but I didn’t walk far either. Dixie, Maizie and Julie ran two rabbits in a small patch of really thick planted pines. Neither rabbit wanted to come out and play. They preferred to stay home, running in small overlapping circles crisscrossing their scent trail. We had wanted to shoot it so Lucy could see what it was all about, but neither Brag nor myself got a shot. Besides the one I saw run in front of the Pathfinder, all I got was a glimpse of the dark shape of a running rabbit in the pines.

Lucy did try to run. While listening to the dogs, Lucy found a scent trail that got her excited. Her puppy voice rang with excitement for a few minutes before she came back to lay at my feet. This time, she was shivering. I loaded her in the box and went to get Brag and the dogs. Brag came fairly willingly but Julie, Dixie and Maizie was having to much fun on a cool damp morning. I hated to break them off, but I did it while promising them that I would take them again before bow season for deer started this Saturday.