It sounds as though he is doing pretty good. I'm very glad of that.
As for the neighborhood, I'm not at all surprised. It is just about all that people say on the news - that FEMA has become more of a four-letter word than anything.
I guess I didn't say, but what my vet told me to give was Tums. We just gave her the fruit-flavored kind and she really did eat them like candy!

I'm not really familiar with the Pepto tablets. They aren't like the pink stuff in the liquid form, are they? If so, he might get constipated.