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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
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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 
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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
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Ok so basiclee me sad tale ob woe is dat my schedule got messed around a lot yesserday. I woz alreddy in a sumwot grompy mood doo to da sky refoozink to stop peeing on our collectiff heds fur daze and daze. It woz beginnink to drive me and mummy mad. Free walks a day plus 3 outs in da yard, dat's FIVE paw wipings and FIVE times ob comin home drenched to da bone, Eggsaustink.
Den mummy went to pick up Unka Nick hoose been in Seattle, ecksept she got the day rong (because, silly her, she herd "I'm coming back thursday" and didn't use her psychic abilities to figure out dat wot he ment woz "I'm leaving WA on Thursday on a red eye overnight flight and will arrive on Friday").
Den on Fried Day she reely woz fried, and she woz on da way to de airport and got a notificashin dat hims flite woz diverted to Connecticut. Den dey said "ok, we're flyink at 5:20pm" so mummy got in de car and by the time we arrived at de airport there'd been anudder delay so the flite had only juss left. Wotebber, finally it landed and we got him and I woz all confoozled because he smelled kind ob familiar so I wagged me tale butt I woz uncertain, and den after a few seconds it dawned on my tiny brayne me dat I no dis dood! He liffs in da same house as me. So den me tale start to wag a lot. It woz freezink cold and I eben had me fleecy obercote on and I woz still tremblink, mummy had to hold me close and warm me. The winds were insane and dat's why the flite woz diverted and then delayed.
So ennyway mummy duzn't eben no hoo she is anymore, she woke up and cuddled me dis mornink and let me out and fed me brekfist and start to put on
and suddenly she glanced at de clock and it said 7:30am. WOT?? Dare woz sum salty talk, let me tell yoo, and mutterinks about what the 
am I doing up at this time on a Saturday, fings like dat. So she woz like, oh well, and had sum 
and den we hopped into da car and went bak to Fort Williams Park (da litehouse park). It woz a trooly bewtimuss mornink and we walked all da way to da litehouse and beyond and den terned back up and down sum hills. It woz like 52F / 11C and sunny! Mummy's jumper came off half way froo and me hound tee came off too. It's apposed to be sunny and 60F/15C fur da neggst few days Da oshun woz bery bewtimuss dis mornink. I postie a foto and reel later.
Haffs a gud afternoon eberywon!
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Dat Samba luks like a frenlee chap! I bet yu're da bestest host ebber, Charlie. I woodn't mind takink a bacashin to Montréal meownself! Do yoo haff enny bacancies? When duz hi seezin start in yur city? I need to kno how menny treato currentsy I need to bring. Plusalso wot if dem prat troll people at da border tell me I can pass, butt haffs to giff dem a brown envelope ob treetos? Wot mummy? Dat prolly duz KNOT happen in O Canada? Oh.
Flashy, diss noo no-peenitbuttah nooze is perplecksink and, I mite even say, downrite disterbink.
Wot cood yoo possibly meen by refoosink peenit buttah? Yu haffs feever? Yoo staged a shockin refoozal as a soshul commentary on da contradikshins ob modern life? 
Talk to us, Flashy. Acksplane yurself, fur da luff ob eberyfink dat is gud and and troo, like 2+2=4. Dis nooze juss defies compretenshin. 
Fanks fur da usual lavish display ob snax, Ms Jen. I halped meownself to sum ob dat gahlic bred. Noms. Plusalso sum
keykitschquiche.
Glad Pap got into a room. I hope de rest ob his horse spittle stay is unebentful butt KNOT too borink.
Fingers and paws crosst fur master
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whoops I postied too soon. I tell yu me sorry tale ob woe frum yesserday in anudder postie.
Lupin NoFumms
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I made it! I made it!
I just binge-read the whole thread. Oh Myka, how I miss seeing you, sweet girl. I used to joke that Merlin had a secret crush on her, but of course I was the one with the (mega) crush.
Thank you for sharing all these lovely pictures, Jen
The photos that showed off her silly pointy ears were always my favourite!
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So beautiful! Don't hog it all though - send some to southern Maine!
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Ducky, I'm just so sad for Leela and for you.
Her transformation from horribly emaciated to happy (that second photo speaks volumes) happened thanks to wonderful groups like the Senior Sighthound Sanctuary and fosters and adopters like you. I am so glad that Leela got to live her last months at the House of Duck. She couldn't have landed in a better home.
I wish so much that you'd had more time together.
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Willa
I sob emotionally like a loser everytime I see her bouncing around like a champ
Same shoulder as Pippin. Mere weeks apart. Completely different outcome. I am so so happy for you all, and especially for your beautiful girl. It's so lovely to see her so full of life!
<--- happy tears!
GO WILLA!
On 10/1/2023 at 9:37 AM, ramonaghan said:Barking to wake us up bc she is bored
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So many little sighs and swoons over here 
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Oh noes, I missed the party! Happy belated Gotcha Day AnnIE & Punkin!
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Awwwwww.
I think i agree with your vet.
Perfect.
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Who's a good girl???? What a superstar.
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So glad to read that Willa is doing so well! She's a fighter, that one! And your heart must have been so joyful when you saw the return of the Willa Waggles!!
I'm sorry I haven't been posting much, but I've been thinking of you of all as you navigate the first week post-amp.
Rest in peace, handsome Richard
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Willa
I'm so pleased to hear that her surgery went well and I literally started crying when I read that she is better after her first night and that you can pick her up today. So so relieved.
I'm sorry I wasn't backandforfing yesterday, what with the drive to pick up nooboi.
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I was backnforfing yesterday but was crazy busy and didn't get home until 10PM. So glad to read that things look good for surgery. Fingers crossed.
Thinking of Richard and hoping he continues to do well and be himself for as long as possible.
Willa's waggy tail!
Sending love and strength for the days ahead.
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Just wanted to send some more hugs.
Good luck on Tuesday.
So glad you have insurance for Willa.
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I don't know how I missed this. What ghastly, ghastly news. I am just speechless. Absolutely hate osteo with every fibre of my being.
Rachel, I'm sobbing as I read this. I am so terribly, terribly sorry.
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Oh my, what a dreamy long snoot
And what acrobatics! Is there anything she can't do?
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On 6/4/2023 at 6:33 PM, macoduck said:
They'll always be with us, just slightly beyond the point that we can see with our eyes. In our heart, though, they'll be bright and clear, as they always were.
^This is beautiful, Ducky.
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On 6/30/2023 at 11:55 PM, jenners said:
No. Just NO.
Jennie
I said this exact thing out loud, and then scrolled down and saw your post!
It's bad enough that I'm finding little ants crawling on me all the time because of all the rain... at least they're not disgusting, almost unkillable, disease-spreading TICKS.
This makes perfect sense in light of the fact that I have found ticks on me even when I've walked near vegetation, and not in it or through it. Revolting.
I imagine them just sitting there waiting and then leaping. The stuff of NIGHTMARES
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It looks so lovely up there, Jan, I'm going to have to visit soon. How are the black flies right now?
) 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. 
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 
Oh! Yoo'll be going to GIG after all! 
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 
)
Den on Fried Day she reely woz fried, and she woz on da way to de airport and got a notificashin dat hims flite woz diverted to Connecticut. 
am I doing up at this time on a Saturday, fings like dat. So she woz like, oh well, and had sum 
Wot cood yoo possibly meen by refoosink peenit buttah? Yu haffs feever? Yoo staged a shockin refoozal as a soshul commentary on da contradikshins ob modern life? 
Talk to us, Flashy. Acksplane yurself, fur da luff ob eberyfink dat is gud and and troo, like 2+2=4. Dis nooze juss defies compretenshin. 
So many little sighs and swoons over here 
I imagine them just sitting there waiting and then leaping. The stuff of NIGHTMARES
WFUBCC #228 - April Showerings
in Cute and Funny things Greyhounds do
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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
stitchessnitches.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.