Sue, Lola, Pongo & Hubby's Blog (11)

As much fun as vacations can be, there is no place like home!!!! Being away from my Lola for 2 weeks proved to be quite unbearable...even with the skyping and photo e-mailing my sister did (she was her sitter). New Orleans is an absolutely beautiful city with a great history and even better people. I experienced more in 2 weeks there than I have in a whole year in my own boring city. The people there really open up your eyes to…

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So we're off to cruise the western caribbean tomorrow morning (cross your fingers for these hurricanes/tropical storms to go away! Good luck to those of you in Texas!), and we're leaving Lola with my parents (as we always do when we go away!). I miss her already, and she's sitting right next to me!! I know she'll have a blast with Saba (my parents' hound mix), and my entire family adores her and showers her with love and kisses, but it's still sad to say bye for a week!!!

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Four years ago today, our beautiful Lola was born.

Since then, she has made us the happiest doodle parents you can imagine. She's so loving, social, curious, cautious, sensitive, playful, silly, and HILARIOUS!!!!!

 

Happy birthday, Lola....we LOOOOOOOOOVE you!!!!!

(birthday pictures to come later....)

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So we're in earth-shattering heat here in southern Ontario. We're past heat and humidex advisories, and into full-blown weather warnings! As I write this, with the humidity and all, it's about 47C (about 116F). So I've been avoiding taking Lola out, especially since she gets so dramatic with extreme weather conditions. She's been wandering around our (air-conditioned) house all afternoon staring at me and whining. I keep saying "Lola, trust me, it's too hot for doodles. You'll melt!"

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Yesterday evening, I walked outside to see what Lola was up to, and she was hunched over something at the back fence. Thinking it was poop,  I screamed "leave it!". Poop would have been GREAT compared to what I found. A little black bird, laying there, looking like it was hyperventilating. Absolutely horrified, I pointed at the back door of the house, and told Lola "MOVE". Head down, and tail between her legs, she slowly made it to the back door, where DH was coming out to tell me the great… Continue

So Lola got her summer cut today, she looks ADORABLE!!

She has a routine when she gets home from the groomers....lap up about 1/2 bowl of water, and go to the backyard and investigate - you never know what/who's been there since this morning!

She decided to…

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5:30am: Lola's worked up barking at something out the front window downstairs.....she stops, I (eventually) fall back to sleep

6:15am: daily wake-up "whine" from Lola directly in our faces......"Come on guys...gotta pee, and I'm hungry!"

 

I walk down stairs, and practically fall on my you-know-what slipping in a pile of vomit. GREAT start to the day! I keep walking, half-asleep, and find our main floor in state you'd only find in a horror movie (maybe not quite, but it…

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So as some of you know, Lola had the absolute worst ear infection of her life a month or two....or three ago. Had re-check with vet yesterday, and of course, it's still there. Well the ear infection seems to be gone, but she's producing an abnormal amount of ear wax. So we're on a new ear cocktail now....I HOPPPPE this works. Her next appt isn't for another month, and if there's still a problem, I don't know what we'll do. It'll be over 4 months at that point. Our vet even apologized and said… Continue

So we're going in to the vet's (for about the 10th time this month) in about 20 min (he works literally 5min from our house...VERY convenient), and we can't wait to hear him say "ALL CLEAR, MISS. LOLA!!" Yes, he has his own personal nickname for Lola...no one else calls her that :)

From what I can see, and smell, she seems to be all clear of the mounds of wax she had stored in there...but without my own otoscope (which I may look into getting...) who's to know.

 

Wish my…

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So poor Lola is home safe. She actually got back several hours ago (was only at the vet's for a couple of hours), but I unfortunately had to work out of town until early afternoon. Hubby was home to get her though....and it's been a rough day since. Lola refused to sleep even though she was really groggy and unbalanced and clumsy (ran into a couple of walls!!!)...so she insisted on pacing around the house whining all day. I cuddled her (and whispered sweet nothings lol), and tried taking her…

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So poor Lola has had a yeast AND bacterial ear infection for over a month now. We've been cleaning, medicating with a total of three different drops, changed her food (to Orijen!)...and after a rather traumatizing trip to the vet this morning, we've found out she as to go in tomorrow morning to get her ear flushed...and SEDATED!!! Hubby and I almost broke out into tears imagining our poor gorgeous girl being sedated. Just needed to vent a little...hope things go well tomorrow.....