MerlinsMum

Rest in peace sweetie Ducky

No time to post properly but wanted to pop in to send little Rita some kisses and let her know I'm thinking of her. I'll catch up later this evening...

Oh no, what a worrisome report on little Rita. I have no valuable advice to offer, just sending and and and hoping so hard that Rita pulls through and starts to improve. Please eat, sweetie. Eat something.

Oh, poor Rita! Backandforfing commencing at once. Ducky, when Merlin had an IBD flare-up and refused to eat because his tummy hurt, but I HAD to give him his Metronidazole for him to improve (and it's best to give it on a full stomach), I used wet food to syringe some into his mouth. It wasn't pleasant for either of us, and I hated doing it, but if he didn't take his meds it would only get worse. I would also use Sucralfate an hour and a half before his meal - again, I'd crush it into a powder, added a little water, mixed it up and administered it via a syringe. It helped line his stomach so it wouldn't feel so bad, and then, more often than not, he would consent to eating something. I'm sorry about the new lesion. Keeping her in my thoughts.

Charlie! Furgiff me, fren! SNOT my fault I'm gud-lookin How did I miss a pikchur ob Zorro's bum? And more importantly, how did *I* miss a picture of Zorro's bum? Dat's inipropriat when yoo say it mummy. Yoor only allowed to comment on da niceness ob MY bum. Current eckspeerients and comments like dis are starting to make me fink dat hooman mummies are kind ob party poopers. Miss Jen Rest and recharge. Miss Patsy, glad yoo gots gud Spring wedder again Tis late. Mummy is habbing a little anxiety and feer around taking me bootie on and off when going out (i wear won ob dose Paws rubber booties to keep mw snitches cleen when we go walkies). She says dey're "hard to put on and take off uncooperative houndies" - though dat sounds pritty passiffgressiff to me, to be honnist. When she tried to take it off me lass night I growl and snarl loudly at her, butt it woz her fault, and she nos it - we woz in bed in da dark because she'd turned off da lite to sleep and den rear lized dat she'd furgotted to take me bootie off after last out. She backed off and put a lite on and gave me a biskie to focus on and tried again (sucksessfully.) She woz reminded dat she needs to halp herownself wiff dose fears by KNOT doing dum dum fings. And she woz grateful I did KNOT bite. I woz just askeered. It is KNOT normil to be poking and prodding around a houndie's futs in da dark ob da nite. Pffft. Lupin

Gud luck wiff da pripparashins fur da beeg paint job, Nancy Mam. Mummy says she is stunned at dis uneggspected diffrints in behaviour, plusalso she says she's flooint in sarcasm. We saw a reel on instagranny da udder day dat showed a bewtimuss warm day and den a scene frum da followink day, when everyfink woz cubbered in sno! Dat's a bit cheeky fur late April. Bitzi fren, is yur guest still wiff yoo? I luff da yoo haffs a dog fren around fur a while. Angus we luff dat Misset Skipwerf cartoon! We saw it sum time ago and sent it to me aunty Nancy who is mummy to Nico, because Nico has eggsaklee da same big saddle-like blak markings on hims bak! We're glad BossLady is getting herown space for to werk in. AndiPants, did Miss Chris finitch her book?? Did she eben rememberate to feed yoo? Mummy gets so distracted and forgetful when she's finitching her book. It's a wonder I haffn't starbed yet. Wot's all did nonsense about a floofy white poopie in da offish? How rude. Wot am I - chopped libber?? Wutebber, he's juss a little snot, he is KNOT a fashun houndie like meeeeee

I saw the "good" news about FancyToo while checking in yesterday afternoon, and was sooooo relieved. I didn't have time to post though. Not saying tick diseases are great or even good, but everything is relative... so glad and relieved for you and your pawrents, FancyToo Ok, off to catch up. In the meantime, here's something to brighten your hump day. The CBO of the law school brought in her Samoyed and.... He has a new baby brother, shown below! You're welcome!!! He looks like a little fuzzy bear cub

Jupe me fren - FIVE poos? In won sitting walking? Dat's most impressif. Backandforfing fur our fren FancyToo... Seriously? It's not like they don't make you wait for an appointment long enough, or charge enough

Oooh! Lookit Angie and Kiva in dare fancy noo collars! We luff dem! Mummy LUFFS orange, plusalso she luffs Misser Skipwerff's cartoons! Greyt zoomie collar We'll be finkin ob FancyToo dis mornink and startink to backandforf at 11:30.

Dis me enjoying da sunnyshine at da litehouse park Dis me at da beech again Ok I fink dat's enuff Lupin adbenchurs fur won day. I hope I didn't postie too much, sorry. Mam, keeping our paws crosst fur Pap's rezults Wiki, haffs Miss Jerilyn's fumms terned all green? I heer dat happins to hoomans. Oh my gosh. That's adorable.

We will be finkin ob yoo so much tomorrow, FancyToo, Be brave, fren. We will be waitink wiff bait on our breffs to heer dat it's "juss" dat grompy old guy Arfur Itis. Holding you in my thoughts, Robin. So I did KNOT get tooken to no litehouse or beech or anyware ecksitink dis afternoon because I woz tooken to da feelds fur speshul birfday lunchytime walk and when we got back me paw woz bleedink a little. Mummy cleened it up and kisst me snoot and said don't liklik, so I did KNOT. Unka Nick snootervized me and he told her I woz bery gud boi dis afternoon. BUTT mummy woz werried about making me paw werser so we juss walked around de neighbourhood dis afternoon. She says I can KNOT, KNOT KNOT KNOT, rip me sewings or liklik dem and make dem feckted. So lass week she tooked me to her werkjob. She pak me bed in da car, and packed me in dare too. She brot a fan, treatos, a blankie, me furst aid kit, da werks. Da stoodints luffed me. Her co-irkers (apart frum won) luffed me. Dis Miss Emma Yoo alreddy no her (yas, she werk in da same place as mummy!). We luff her bery much. We eben hadda little nappy togedder I napped in da offish and eben took da elemavator! Mummy says I yam da only houndie she's ebber had hoo woz completely unfazed by dat big moobin bocks. Dis below is me Mummy Reminder(tee-emm) Face. It remind her dat de time train fur me neggst treato delibbery haffs arribed at da station, changed drivers, and departed again, and she misst dat train entirely. I had to do dis quite a lot dat day. [Do NOT lookit dat little stain, it's prolly mummy slobber, teehee - ok fine it's mine] While downtown I still took da time to smell da flowers Ware d'yoo fink yoo're going mummy, yoo're KNOT allowed to go wee, I need snootervizin Den we went to da beech dis weekend and also to da litehouse park. Oh hai Cant rememmer how menny piccies I'm allowed per postie. I guess I make anudder postie juss in case.

Oooh Miss Noo Carol, mummy aksed me to aks yoo witch Kingsolver nobble yooze reedink. She likes her a lot. Izzit her latest, Demon Copperhead? Sorry I haff misst soo much! We're going to cotch up tonite, mummy haffs promised me and yoo do KNOT brake a promiss made on a burfday! Dat's rite, it's me burfday tooday I yam sicks. I can KNOT wait to reed all yur posties frum GIG! Fur now I juss want to say dat me and mummy is werried fur yoo, FancyToo, pleese be alrite, ebery time we reed about pain and limpink in a houndie our heart hurts and we get werried. When is your poinkment? So we can backandforf proppalee? As soon as I haff time I tell yoo all about me adbenchurs frum lass week and da weekend. Luffs fur now, Lupin

Oh for goodness' sake... why didn't I think of that?? What a great idea. Thanks Cindy! Ducky, thank you for the Wound Powder recommendation. I have bookmarked it. Just yesterday I was wondering why on earth I didn't have stiptick powder in my houndie first aid kit. I always did, not sure what happened to it Indispensable stuff when you have a houndie! I hope everyone who's going to GIG has a fabulous, wonderful time! I am already looking forward to the pictures, which I KNOW you will all take.. right? Sorry Angie's rear is dying Please feel better soon Pap is home, yay. BUTT his levels are still too low. Ugh. Fingers crossed that his check-up shows more promising test results next week. I have to run and I know I've missed lots, I should be able to catch up by the end of the week. Lupin is at work with me today. He is so good, polite, quiet and well-behaved. The students adored him. I don't ever bring him to work because I do IT support so I don't spend hours and hours in my office - I'm often floating around the building. But I have to keep an eye on him because of those stitches snitches. P.s. Thank you so much for your words of support and suggestions regarding places I will always associate with Pippin. It's a work in progress, and I loved all your suggestions and kind words.

I haff red eberyfink and I haff to bery sucksinklee condense all me replies tooday, so heer goes Yesserday woz a very bad, no gud, horrible day in da life of Lupin, One minnit i yam chasink sum dastardlee squirrel (and bery neerly cotched it!) and den da neggst fin I no, I yam bleedink proffooslee onto da (noo ) rugs, da yoga mat, da floors, eberyware! ... and mummy can KNOT stop da bleedink. Dis happen juss as a croo came to kill our front spruce d-e-d. ( <~~ deese mummy' s teers) and dey juss... took it! Took it away! Dare's juss a stumpy stump left now! Mummy said dey had to because it was old and dying and unwell and could crash into peepul's roofs. Dey tooked da tree and also lots ob bikkie monies. Ennyhoo while dey woz bringing me tree fren down, mummy had to take me to da 'mergencee vet and da won she woz going to take me to woz closed, so she had to take me to da place where Misser Pippin lost hims leg and den died. We woz eben seen in da eggsak same room in witch she was told dare woz nuffink dey cood do and she woz going to lose him. It woz bery bery hard fur her. Den she had to leeb me dare fur seberal hours and den she gabe dem - fur 3 stitches and sedation and monitorink - $1200 (<~ dees mummy's teers again, KNOT reely mine coz I woz trippink ball$ at da time so coodn't reely fink about da consequences ob such a bill on me bikkie allowance). We did KNOT sleep much and mummy is now at her werkjob eben doh she reely, reely doesn't want to be heer, and she is terrfied dat me stitches is going to come loose and it's going to cost anudder $1200 to ficks. SHe desprittly needs a work frum home job. RIte now Unka Nick is sooperbizing me witch is nice ob him butt it's stressful fur him, after Merlin and Sagan he didn't want no moor dogs because he doesn't want da responsibility and hassle, butt he is fond ob me and so he is werking downstairs so I don't haff to ware dat horrible, HORRIBLE lizard beefin' collah Dis going to be life fur da neggst 2 weeks. I slept ok lass nite butt mummy did KNOT It's ok doh. She says she will do wotebber it takes. I cotch up when I can Lupin, woonded in da Skwirrel Warz on his bery own turf

Mam, we're sorry to hear dat da bringing down Pap's lNR lebbels has been unsuccessful thus far We'll keep our paws and fingers crosst dat dey can figger out da rite medicamaashin dat halps soonest Wiki, Mummy says she doesn't no iffn she cood ebber leeb da house iffn she liffed wiff yoo and yoo gabe her dat look. I fink she wood haff to gib up her werkjob too, and den dare wood be no monies fur fud, and den yoo wood starb. So fank yur lucky stars dat yu liff wiff yur Mistress Welcome back Miss Kathy and Misser Jim! Hi Ivy and Cherry Oh! Yoo'll be going to GIG after all! Flashy, it's prolly fine knot to like peenit butter. I meen... yu're weerd, but den I am a houndie hoo can't roach so, yoo no, we all haff our little idiot - idiom- idiostink- quirks. Mummy is trying to kill me d-e-d. We wented to da beech, and along a trail to anudder litehouss, and den dis afternoon mummy put in a turd try at da feelds. Da furst two attempts ended in her bawling her eyeballs out because Misser Pippin is eberyware dare - dey used to go dare togedder seberal times a week and had a little unposken rootine dey always followed. Pippin wood pee and poo and den mummy wood frow a treato in da air and he wood jomp and cotch it, and den he'd set off runnink like da wind, butt only until he reeched a spassific boosh, where he waited fur mummy to cotch up. Mummy is determined to obercome the dred she feels dare from his absence, because it is a nice place and around de corner frum us, it wood be a shame KNOT to go again. So she deecide to try again, and picked a loop she hardly ebber did wiff Pippin, and it woz ok! She try to focus on me and sang sum songs, and den by the end she werried the loop woz too much fur me. I woz bery tired. Prolly KNOT such a great ideer after I did seberal steep steps frum da raised trail to de beech earlier (and did dem like a champ, by day way, or so I'm told ) Diss Breakwater Light - SpringPoint Ledge - wiff me noggin' in da way Dis me at Fort Williams Park yesserday Dis me eggsited to go on anudder adbenchur It's apposed to be nice again tomorrow. We're going to try to go to bed erly. Mummy juss finitshed a kewl and gripping book about de discubbery ob Ernest Shackleton's Endurance in da Weddell Sea (Antarctica) in 2022. Mummy is a nerd about dis stuff. Da ship was lost to da ice in 1914 and sank. An incredible story ob survival ensued. Anyhoo, so now she haffs to decide wot she's reeding neggst. Miss Chris mummy is in awe of all da werk yoo do in de garden ebery yeer to get veggimals. Yoo too Miss Lucy! She witches she did dat too, butt she duzn't no de furst fink about it and it feels intimidaratink. Lupin