January 2011 Blog Posts (116)

Last evening we said goodbye to Sherlock. Since Christmas his bad days were more often than his good and this week he started to decline rapidly. On Tuesday we made Sherlock’s final appointment with our vet. Amazingly he had a good day yesterday. So we decided to make a great day. It was a bit rainy but DD and I took him for a small walk. Then Sherlock got a good long brushing with the Zoom Groom (this was one of his favorite things). As it came closer to the appointment DD, Sherlock and I…

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Our friend has a darling little Maltese male that she has sold to a lady in upstate New York.  Judy and I have the puppy now and are training it to use pee-pee pads. The lady was going to fly to San Diego from New York to pick up the puppy but. her mom is not feeling well and she cannot make the trip.

 

The lady is quite wealthy and owns a horse farm in upstate New York.  She offered me first class airline tickets plus two days in a New York City hotel if I would fly the puppy…

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Mulligan is my newly rescued 14 week old Chocolate Labradoodle puppy. He arrived here in Shark River Hills, New Jersey on Sunday 12.12.10 by an all-volunteer rescue… Continue

No surgery!!!  All I can do is thank God and all of you here on DK for your prayers and good thoughts and the wonderful doctors in Estero.  14 hours of hell but we do have a good outcome IF all proceeds like it should.  Rooney did not have an obstructed stomach, whatever showed on the first xrays at 5:00 a.m. did not show on the noon xrays.  They kept him on an I.V. all during this time and he had had nothing to eat at all.  The second set of xrays did show that his stomach and intestinal…

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Please - everyone say a prayer for my boy!  I'm sobbing I am just so worried and feel so bad.  Yesterday started off with Rooney being his typical puppy self, happy and bouncy, ate his breakfast.  I took him to the puppy sitter as it was my golf day and picked him up later in the afternoon.  She made the comment that she couldn't get him to poop but I didn't think anything of that.  So we went to the puppy park… Continue

Eli is up to...... 41.5 pounds! I was so happy at the Vet today. He looks normal now. The Tech told me he looks like a different dog :)

Last night I trimmed his nails. Talk about easy! He laid there and let me do it not fuss at all. If only Jordan was that easy...Jordan is 2 a man job to get her nails trimmed, worse with the dremel I bought for her.

I am in the process of interviewing potential forever homes for him with lots of help from Karen ( Huge Thank You to Karen) I have 3… Continue

Well, unfortunately, it is not good news. I brought my little "squirt" to my vet today and we found a sizeable cleft palate. But she is still very active and healthy-looking despite a lack of weight gain, so we decided to look into some solutions rather than just euthanizing her. One of the vet techs there raises kittens and has saved several squirrels using tube feeding and was very anxious to take "Squirt" on for a few days to see if she could get her weight up. (For free! I have such nice…

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Busy times have led to fewer Blog updates, but today it's time. Cash has been a great boy over the holidays! I was really afraid he'd water the Christmas tree like he does the ones in the yard – but he didn't bother the tree at all! He left the ornaments, lights, gifts and everything untouched unless his toy bounced into the milieu and then he carefully reached in to get it. I'm continually amazed by what an easy dog he is.



He has gotten comfortable enough with us now to let a couple… Continue

Its true...my baby turns two today!  I find I am doing the same thing on Phoebe's birthdays as I do on my children's which is to tell her about how she arrived here and all about her first day.  She sits and listens to me drone on about how excited we were to get her, the rare ice storm that hit Arkansas that delayed her arrival and the look of wonder on my oldest's face as she strutted out of her crate.

Phoebe's first birthday marked the start of a truly terrible year for us--on her…

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I have come upon a sure fire way to stop Vern from drinking from our toilet. Before Christmas, I bought a Talking Snowman holding a plunger. Hallmark makes them and the snowman is motion activated so if anyone goes into our bathroom it starts talking. It says stuff like, "Whatcha Doing In Here?...Pull up a seat and make yourself comfortable....Ho Ho Ho, Who has to go? etc." Well, various members of my family keep turning the little guy off, but today I turned him back on and Vern went into… Continue

This was in the Virginian Pilot newspaper today.

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/01/photos-basking-warm-january-sunshine

Looks like one happy doodle.

I found this in a local publication this morning.   These folks must have been frantic!!!

http://http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x413851289/Dog-rescued-from-12-foot-hole-in-ground

Sorry to keep you all in suspense but I have had no time to write! Lyric went through a long night of pacing and panting, but at 4:30 am, things got more serious. By 6:15, she was ready to give birth and hoped right into the whelping box--she made two grunts and out popped puppy #1 --a gorgeous all black male. 15 minutes later, we had a beautiful FAT apricot female followed by…

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It is offical - we will be getting Rooney a brother or sister!  I'm very excited.  DH got back from China in the wee hours today and while on our walk with Rooney agreed that he is totally on board (which is wonderful as I already have put our name on our breeders wait list - shhhhh).  We are crossing our fingers for a brother or sister in the April, May, June time frame.  Rooney will be 1 in August so I think the timing would be perfect.  This time around I am not going to set my heart on a…

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Sort of like pulling out an album of grandkid photos... :)

 

A while back I noticed and blogged about Traveler playing 'find the fox,' and how impressed I was at not only his ability to find a hidden toy, but also his dedication in searching for it.  We've continued to play this game off and on, with no particular consistency.  The game is:  he waits in one room while I hide the stuffed fox in a different room, then tell him to 'find the fox.'  His search behavior is so…

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