The next morning, we waited for the pet hospital to ring us with an update. It never came In the end, we rang him and they said he was 'calmer' but that they were not happy with releasing him until he had eaten, something he had refused to do overnight.
We told them that we were coming to collect him. We were both far from happy with the way this was proceeding. When we got there, we were again told that he had to eat something before they would release him. Undeterred we simply took him from the cage they had left him in, and asked if we needed to sign anything, he wasn't spending another minute in there.
Of course there was a bill to pay. It's quite expensive to have your dog sleep in a cage and not eat any food. Nonetheless, we paid it without fuss and set off back to the site. We could monitor him ourselves. We just hoped we had made the right decision.
Harry's current condition meant that we had to adjust our plans as we couldn't leave him alone in the van which, had it been just the two of us, wouldn't have been an issue but, Harry nephew had to be considered.
After we all had a chat it was agreed that I would take Harry in to Pisa the next morning, then when we moved on to Florence, Sue would visit the city with Harry nephew and I would stay back at the van.
To his great credit, Harry nephew was just brilliant about the whole situation. He just told us that if we needed to take a couple of days off to monitor the dog, then he understood, and was fine with it. We are both grateful to him for that.
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