Pupdate on Audrey: 

To circle back in case anyone was worried, Audrey seems absolutely fine now. (She's currently rolling around on her back in her bed kicking the air and snorting happily after she finished licking my breakfast plate - she does this every time after a meal of kibble or some scraps/scrounging she particularly enjoyed. If not in her bed, she hops up on a couch to do it though that's more often at work than home.) She's been eating the new food quite regularly and given that she got underweight while sick and she's old I give her a half cup to cup of it any time she asks -- and she'll stop eating leave some in the bowl when she gets full. She's never yet had more than 2.5 cups in a day so her self regulating her hunger/eating/overeating is a non-issue.  Spock, the cat, continues to think the new food some sort of heretofore unknown treat and tries to steal the kibble any chance he gets. 

We went on a brisk walk for an hour this morning before I showered and made breakfast - and everything was healthy/regular consistency and color and size. She's no longer producing excessive bile and she's eating regularly enough to use up all the bile she produces like she's supposed to. 

She's been having all her treats again (including occasional feline greenies in very small quantities) with no adverse effects noticed at this time. She has refused to touch either of her foods she got sick on (both of them are duck formulas, I suppose she could have a hard time digesting duck) even when left constantly out - and there's a non-zero possibility she may never again like duck in her food/treats. 

But honestly, she's doing really well and quite healthy again and nobody ever guesses her age right because she often has the energy of a young pup and if she wants something she'll run her tricks like bunny (sitting on only her hind legs - from bunny she can do high five) and then standing up on her hind legs and doing dance (spin in a circle on hind legs), walk, walk backwards, and kangaroo (a series of traveling hops on her hind legs.) Even the vet office finds it hard to believe she's as old as she is.  I've owned her since she was 12 weeks old, she really is 13.5 years old already. 

The major consequence coming out of her being sick is that because the first thing she held down was rice and chickpeas that I had boiled for a curry dish and separated some out for her while I continued my cooking, she now thinks that rice and beans is the magic that makes the nausea-vomiting-bile cycle stop and thus any time I make any sort of rice and beans she thinks it's healthy and will make/keep her healthy and she should get a share as well as me. Which is fine even though it's a fairly frequent thing for me to cook, dried beans and dried rice are cheap and easy and I always have both in the pantry for the times I desperately need to grocery shop and put it off way too long. Dogs can have any cooked beans except fava beans (which I don't really like so never buy) because favas cause vomiting and diarrhea in dogs. Mostly what I always have on hand are black beans, chickpeas, and lentils because those are my personal favorites - though I'm also fond of red beans when i find them dried and then moving into chili season I also stock up on red beans, white beans, kidney beans, etc. Dried not canned because they take up less space and I don't like the metallic taste of canned beans.

The other night I cooked up some red beans and rice (I LOVE both Japanese style Sekihan red beans with rice and New Orleans style red beans and rice, it's up there with cornbread as my favorite southern food with Cajun style catfish a distant third, but like split pea soup it's traditionally cooked with ham bone for flavor and is thus rarely vegetarian and should never should be considered kosher/halal/pork allergy friendly unless you ask a lot of super specific questions or make it from scratch so you know there was no pork involved anywhere in the process of your red beans and rice; this batch I didn't have celery or onion on hand so this is more like Japanese Sekihan) thus yesterday and today (and probably tomorrow to use up the last of the red beans and rice) I had cheesy red beans and rice with fried eggs on top and lots of cholula for breakfasts. And so Audrey had a small plate of red beans and rice that she wolfed down while my plate was reheating and my eggs were cooking AND she got to lick the scraps of my plate with melty cheese and egg yolk and beans/rice sauce. (I don't add salt when boiling either beans or rice as I can always add salt later - also if boiled without salt it's safe to share with my animals. Not that the cat has ever eaten either rice or beans - he gives me the most disgusted looks that say clearly, "you have complete control of the fridge and pantry yet you're eating THIS?!?!" then he walks away with as much dignity as he can muster while the dog happily trots over to eat the remaining rice and bean he refused to touch. I do not allow thieving of scraps given to the other animal, it results in instant timeout in my bedroom, but if the other doesn't want what they were offered and leave then it's free to whoever grabs it, lol.)

Now. More coffee and reading some more of Octavia Butler's Earthseed duology. Very much enjoying so far! I've read many other titles by her, but never these two. Rather sad that she died before finishing her projected third book on the series - but super happy to have these two! Just started Parable of the Sower last night and if I hadn't needed to take the dog out, shower, and make/eat breakfast would have kept reading without breaks except to make tea and to pee untilil it was finished. I currently don't expect I'll finish it before the Packers kickoff and then I'll be at work for the rest of the afternoon/evening til I head home - but definitely recommend this book so far. It's violent and a bit too close to home how things could go on current trajectories, but it's very well written and good!