On Steroids
by Zia ~ November 12th, 2005. Filed under: Pets.Prednisone is a steroid, so it should come as no surprise that Harry has been much more pugnacious of late. He barks at everything now: Steve, squirrels, other dogs barking. He even barks at nothing. We’ll be in the living room and all of a sudden he’ll start looking at some blank spot and barking his silly little head off. Perhaps we have ghosts that only he can see?
Really, he’s doing so much better. He has a lot of energy, and that makes me happy. Still, I can’t help but wonder how much of this is the side effect from the medication. In a way, he doesn’t even seem like himself. It’s not that he isn’t his loving little self (he is), but he is so much more aggressive than he’s ever been before. It isn’t bad, just different. (And of course, Harry’s aggressive is most dogs’ mellow.)