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It is TootsDay ebberbuddy!  I am heer and ebberbuddy is alive!  Me and Lacifur gotted sat upon on SatonDay and SunnyDay, which is was NOT, wile the two-leggers dribed to Noo Yawk to ride in a circle for 5 hours.    At leest when I runned in circles it was for thirdy seconds!  They rode through all 5 boroughs of Noo Yawk to raise monies for bike safety and what not up there.  It was a little ober fordy miles.  There were 35000 peeples riding!  It did not rain until they were peddling back to their cars to go home.  BossLady cruised through the ride.   not so much.  He was too stubborn (BossLady told me to write that instead of what she called it  ) to get reddy for such a ride as he does not ebber ride a bike and hadn't been on one hardly at all sints he was a kid and then he was too stubborn to quit.  So, he made it through and slept on the way home, eggsept when his legs cramped up.  Hopefully, that'll lern him!  While ebberbuddy was waiting for him to finish, BossLady lady laughed and said that this is the downside of marrying sumbuddy younger than you!  But, he had fun and is willing to ride on other rides.  All is well that ends well!  

Miss Sherrie, we are glad that you made it through and hopefully your recubbery will be smooth this time.  Paws crost! 

We tried to grow clover in the dog yard as it is supposed to be more hardy but it did not werk.  Now, they are spending their lawn monies on dirt to fill in the craters Lacifur digs.  She has mastered speed and depth in no time at all.  A sedum yard sounds really nice!  A house down the way has the ground cover sedum from the sidewalk to their stone wall - about three feet deep and the width of their property.  It gets full sun and filled in really fast!  Paws crost you have the same eggsperience,  

Our tree that haff broke off and into the house was finally laid to rest  yesserday.  There is a lot of tree that hasta be split for firewood and it is lying in our yard!  That will get  to move faster than if it was elsewhere.  Those are his words, not mine.  But the noise was all day and our dog door was locked, so we got a lunchtime walkie!  I was rather confuzzled as it was in the middle of my nap time.  I did take advantage of a nice walk to unload unnecessary weight.    Lacy did not and had to be walked in the dog yard onna leatch while the guys were on their lunch brake.  That gurl ain't rite.  Then, affer our walkies last night, she went back out into the yard (the tree guys were gone and the gate locked), she went on a rampage, running all around.  She found a banana peel that one of the guys forgot and she had such fun flying around the yard with it streaming outta her mouf.  Then, she decided to run in between the sections of tree trunk and BossLady hadda stop her and not let her back out.  There were sticks poking out and she cud just see a huge rip on Lacy's side if she went too close. 

Yes, Miss Chris, she is more than what was eggspected when they brought her home.  But, sumtimes you get what you NEED and not what you think you WANT.   still is not convinced of that but that is too bad.  She ain't leaving.   

Round two of the sunroom addition was supposed to happen this week but we are to get rain ALL WEEK.  It is shaping up to be another spring/summer where it rains all.the.time.  

chaRlie, June 29th is gonna be heer faster than you think!  Sending lots of gud luck on getting pakked.  BossLady said she is nebber ebbe moving again, unless sumone else does the whole thing.  Or she will just pack her stuff and leave it at that.   has more cr@p.  When they moved almost 8 (!) years ago, she downsized majorly.  He did NOT.  

Zavvi, you have found the perfect disguise!  Nobuddy wud think twice about a sheep getting into mischief.  Grate idea!  You also got yourself the bestest tootor ebber!  

Miss Jenn, we are sorry that your unkle habs found himself a noo target.  Hopefully, you can get some gud advice and find a way to get him to back off.  

BossLady just started The Bee Sting but is having a hard time getting into the story.  That one may end up back at the lieberry before it is done.  She does not like to do that, but it hasta grab her in order for her to read it.  

Well, I gotta run.  Lacifur is tearing sumthing up in the udder room and I gotta make shore it isn't one of my stuffies.  

Habs a gud day ebberbuddy!  

Angus  

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It is FriedDay ebberbuddy!  I am usually quick happy that it is because then the computer that hogs all of BossLady's time is off and behind a closed gate!  Howebber, they are leaving me tomorrow and going to Noo Yack to behave like idiots!  They are riding in the 5 boroughs ride and it sounds like fun - eggsept it is gonna be raining and in the 50s.  Yuck.  At leest they will not come home sunburned!  

We gotted to go to the park for walkies yesserday because it was sooper hot at walkie time and I cannot and am not allowed to do hothothot.  The park was grate!  There is a sooper stream, which I lubs to get my feets all wet and I gotta walk and walk in the stream.  Even Doofus tried stream walking.  And by Doofus, I mean Lacifur, even though that name could apply to so many in this house!   The walk was shady and onna nice dirt and smooth rock paff.  HOWEBBER, no buddy wanted to pet us!  Despite my waggy tail and whining and pulling to see them.  I was SO disappointed.  I finally had enough and when this nice lady walked a little bit close, I jumped up and tried to gives her a hug.  I only needed anudder 6 inches and I cudda done it!  BossLady was all apologetic and the lady juss laffed, saying she has doggos, but still did not stop for pets.  Wot is rong with these peeples?  Meanwhile, Lacifur wud do her weerd barkhowlscreemcry noise and scared liddle kidlets away.    That is her playwithme sound but it comes across like she is rabid or sumfing!  

We hope you continue to feel bedder, Mam!  

Yeers ago, BossLady literally fired up the grill at her old howse.  She turned it on and flames shot 10 feet in the air.  Her neighbor was outside his house, looked up, saw the flames, and went back to what he was doing.  Never said a werd.  Meanwhile, she was trying to turn off the propane and close the lid.  It is a wonder she didn't burn the house down.  You done gud, Miss Lucy and Antie Ann!    

chArlie, I am a sooper nice guy but iffn sumbuddy tried to lie down negst to me, I wudda growled too.  I like my own space.  But, I am sorry that it happened to you because I know you are a nice guy.  You were friends with  and that takes a special kind of houndie to be friends with her! 

I wondered if  would describe Lacifur but she is more of a   and  all rolled into one.  She took her yak choo outside and buried it.  So, they dug it back up and she found it and buried it again.  What an idjit.  

I also wanted to say that our maleboks moobed yesserday.  Zeke's crystal arrived!   opened the boks and got all teery.  Thank you so very very much.  Your thoughtfulness is so much appreciated.  At this point, our tree is soon gonna be nuffin but crystals.  

How are you doing, Miss Ducky?  

Lupin, Lacifur sleeps that way all.the.time.  Eggcept her rump is tukked under BossLady's chin and her head is on BossLady's hip - unner the cubbers or she habs her head acrost the side of BossLady's face.  Lacifur sleeps grate - at leest one of them does!  Butt, she is easy to move.  She juss gets slided ober and she stays asleep but groans as she is moobed.  Wot a dork.  

I am not a pillow guy or the pillow guy  but Zeke and udders wud carefully push them around so they cud rest their puny heads on a pillow to drool on while sleeping.  

Ennyway, BossLady needs her keybord back.  Habs a grate day ebberbuddy!  

Angus  

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It is TootsDay ebberbuddy!  And the sun is shining and the birds are making a heckuva racket!  And Lacifur is running wildly amuck - as usual.  She resembles Paris' emoji just like Paris did.  Paris did not jump on the couch cushions as much, though.  3 back cushions made it to the floor while the two-leggers were eating dinner last night.  And they do not dawdle while eating  

Molly McHelpful, we have one of those bikes to nowhere in our basement, too.  I decided not to say anything to BossLady about her lack of forward progress because it seems to make her feel bedder.  And bedder-feeling hoomans mean bedder fed dogs, in my book!  I get moor treets when she is relackst.  Juss a thot.  Plus, when she rides her outside bike, I cannot see or heer her and I cannot go!  Hers is a light bloo, by the way.  She does not name her stuff either.  I am lucky that they finally figgered out what to call me!  

Nancy o' the Burgh, we are sorry that things are so tough with your bruther.  That is beyond awful.  But, we are glad that you were able to spend good time with him and your fambly and hope that you get lots of more quality time with ebberbuddy.  

Good luck on finding a warsher that you like, Miss Elizabeth!  BossLady is not a fan of that chore.  Too many options and decisions.  Moor bells and whistles then needed, in her opinion.  But, which ones are the right ones?  Decisions, decisions.  

BossLady's fodder has a Ninja air fryer and he loves it.  Howebber, he is always calling BossLady and asking how to cook stuff innit.  He does not seem to care that she does NOT have one!  And it is not on her wish list.  Not enuf meet consumed and for 3 adults, one of which eats as much as a 14 year old boy.  Do NOT get her started on that!   

We get mice once in a while and no longer have a feline mouse deterrent system and will not be able to have one sints the 14 YO stomach is allergic to cats.  Have never had one in the washer though!  Thank doG.  Nor spiders, for that matter.  

Enjoy your puppers sitting, Miss Halise!  Do you have any idea as to when a houndie may grace your home again?  

Lupin, BossLady is a little taller than 5 foot nuthin, but not by much, and she gets all kinds of stuff delibbered, too!  She is NOT a fan of habbing to drive somewares to buy sumfing.  Our foods get delibbered, but not the peeple stuff.   hasta go get that!  There are benefits to habbing someone home and not werking!   

Oh for the lubs off all that is holey.  Lacifur just raced into BossLady's office with a beeg mouthfool of clumped dirt and grass and proceeded to jump all over the couch and furniture with blobs of muddy dirt flying ebberware!  Life is not clean around here but is shore is fun!  Ennyway, I gotta go because that sukky masheen hasta come out and get all the dirt off the noo carpet and furniture. 

Habs a gud day ebberbuddy! 

Angus   

 

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Happy MoneyDay ebberbuddy!  The sun is out and it is supposed to be almost 90!!!  That is HOT.  I do not do well with that kinda heat, so I am guessing my WikiWalkie today is gonna be even later than usual.  

How did you sleep, Miss Ducky?   

BossLady has an indoor bike and an outdoor bike.  They are supposed to be going to Noo York on SatonDay to ride the 5 Boroughs bike ride.  40 miles.  BossLady is not too worried but  is gonna be a whirled of hert.  

When I herd that your bike was purkle, Mam, I thought of Petunia.  You have gotten sum gud names to consider!  Could be Henrietta and the purkle crayon, too.  

Glad things turned out okay for Sammy - whew!  The picture of Dr. Frootkake onna horse, thundering down the street, certainly made an inneresting mental picture.  

Miss Cynthia - congrats!  The noo mobile looks nice!  The noo house luks nice!  The standing up for yourself and following up on the expectation that you should be treated with respect is the best news of all!  We are sorry that he failed basic life skills 101.  

We are still waiting for Lacifur to smell gud.  She will be one year old 2.5 weeks.  That is the only slow thing about her!  

The tree removal peeple arrived on time this morning and then their lift equipment would not werk.  So, they left but left it in my yard!  The repair guy never answered his phone.  I am going to have to make a point to pee on a tire and I do not get the impression that I will get in trouble for it.   

I hope ebberbuddy habs a gud day!  

Angus  

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Big, big hugs, Ducky.  So not fair.  You really got me at finally being able to give her a belly rub.  Wishing you both peace as she sheds that tired body of hers.  

Cindy  

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I feel scene!   

[WFUBCC #228 - April Showerings]

It is WindsDay ebberbuddy!  And the sun is shining and it is going to be a beautiful day.  And it is even gonna be bedder now that we no FancyToo is gonna be okay!  It is crazy how fast those tick diseases cause isshoes.  Menny yeers ago, Dante went from fine to sagging hindquarters in one day.  He got a month of doxy and was just fine.  We hope your eggsperience is just the same.  

Ebberbuddy's noo collars luk so nice!  I am happy with my noo tag collar, too.  But, I am happier with all the noo treets!  

Your yard is lukkin' gud, AndiPants!  Our deck is gonna be blown up for a while because the conversion from screened porch to sun room is starting!   is bizzy taking all the screening off and then will remove the ceiling.  BossLady's brudder (a home improvement contractor) and her fodder are coming up tomorrow for a cuple days to get the noo framing and electrical done.  Most of the bilding materials are in our garage.  It will not be vary big, but it is gonna be BossLady's space and she is eggsited!  Not UPcited is gud way to describe it, too, Jupe!   Sints it is negst to our deck, the deck is blokked frum me and nutjob so we don't go thru the porch and out into the yard and beyond.  BossLady locked the door to the porch and put stuff in front of it so nobuddy tries to go out that way without thinking things thru.  

Our house wall habs been figst.  It is alreddy painted and gud to go.  The carpet guys were heer yesserday and replaced the carpet - but like ebberyfing else with this job, it ran into snags.  They did not habs enough to recarpet the closet and it is special order, so the closet hasta wayt.  BossLady is back in there with her desk and computer and off the dining room table.  Puppy steps!  

Then, when all this is done, 's sisser is coming back and bringing *her* nutty dog so he can lose his liddle peebrain running around with our peebrained dog.  I am planning on getting sum reely grate sleeps!  Then, they hafta think about remodeling the hall baff to make it a walk-in shower.  Retirement is becoming a distant dreem.  This conversion to help the disabled is stoopid eggspensive, as y'all know!  That baff is not ADA compliant and when he is wheelchairing, he will hafta go libs sumware else.  I bet Lacy wud just lubs a wheelchair and wud roll around with him like it was a chariot or sumthing.  Hek, her faborite chair in our house rocks!  I TOLD you she is cray-cray!  

chArlie, nobuddy wudda standed still for that bunneh.  Lacifur loses her sheetshed ober them and they are all ober the plase around heer!  Nice and fat, too.  I am gessing they are reddy to bring eben moor into this whirled.   is gonna hafta be careful mowing the yard.  

Lupin your burfday weekend sounded grate and your pictures are just perfect!  Glad you hadda grate time.  I am jellus that your furs are still so black and shiny.  My face is now white and grey - BossLady habs rubbed all the black off.  Plus, lets face it, libbing heer is gonna age ennywon rather quickly!   

Ennyway, things are bizzy, so I gotta go.  Habs a gud day!

Angus  

 

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It is MoneyDay ebberbuddy!  And BossLady says she hasta do sum gud MoneyDay werk as she spent lots of it ober the weekend!  We hadda grate time!  Eggspecially ME!  That toadlly sooprized BossLady and  as last yeer, I was not innerested and did NOT wanna be there.  Too much noise and confusion.  They assume that now that Lacifur is heer, there is ALWAYS noise and confusion in our house, so mebbe I am usta it!    But, lemme tell you poor houndies hoo habs not had the chance to attend GIG - there are scritches and pets and ear rubbies EBBERYWARE!  And treets?  Oh My DOG, treets and treets wareebber you go!  Pure doggie hebben.  On FriedDay and SatonDay, when it was time to leeb, I did NOT wanna go home.  I kept pooling  to go back into the big hall.  BossLady was terrible in that she did NOT take enny pikshors.  She did habs her hands and arms and lap fool of crazy dog.  The last month of training went owt the window as she was jumping on ebbery.single.person that walked past and lukked at her.  In her defence, almost ebbery.single,person that walked past oohhed and aahhed ober her and encouraged her to act the fool.  She had all kinds of pikkies taken of her because ebberbuddy said she is just.so.cute!  I just stood there patshuntly and got lots of lovings, too, so she was a grate wingman for me!  She took the roll seriously by winging all ober the place!    

We got lots of treets and burfday treets for Lacifur as she turns ONE negst month.  I got two noo tag collars, too.  And, I got a bloo llama.  I saw one in sum lady's bag and tried to take it rite out!  So, I got my own before I stole one.  I am resourceful!  Lacifur got herself sum coats that fit gud - AND they were haff price!  I think that they shud be sints she is a haff wit.  Plus, she is just so petite that regular stuff just does not fit.  She also got a cuple noo tag collars and one of them is the same as mine so we will satisfy BossLady's need for matchy-matchy sumtimes.  Ennyway, she got a raincoat and a winter coat and will get a snuggly that fits and she should not be able to chew off.  We shall see!  

But, the bestest noose is that we gotted our professional pikshores taken!  I was the rock star and she did stop once inna wile so there should be sum gud wons.   was on the fents about it, but BossLady said that we no how things can go sooper south quickly so do carp the dee-um.  And she paid for it  

We gotta hang out at the winery on SatonDay night wiff Angie and Kiva and Miss Nancy and Missr Doug and sum odder foks.  It was fun!  Then, yesserday, we took a nice walkie wiff our normal houndie walking groop and had lots of eggstra peeples from GIG.  Grate times.  I am gonna habs sum gud naps today, which is gud because the fixer men are heer to close up our wall.  Woot!  

We hadda lunch wiff Miss Ducky and Flashy - hubba hubba - and Ivy and Cherry as we haven't seen them in about furebber, and Miss Nancy, Missr Doug, Kiva, and Angie.  It was fun!  

Happy burfday, Lupin!  We cannot wate to heer about your grate weekend, too!  

FancyToo, we are holding you tite in our harts and thots and hope your visit shows sumthing fixable.  When do you go?

Mam, we hope you don't hafta werk so hard this summer and are glad your horse riding is going well.  

BossLady reely reely reely wants to play in the dirt, but we still habs frost and freeze warnings this week.  Nothing will get done until affer MundersDay.  BUTT, our hummerburdies are back!  BossLady saw sum this morning.  They putted out the feeders last week as the 15th is when they start to show up.  Spring is reely coming!  Thankfully no bare sitings, but we habs seem sum bare poo - not in our yard tho - yay!  

Troo story - this morning at o-dark thirdy, BossLady was FINALLY sound asleep when she herd a THUD.  She immediately thot Lacifur falled off the bed, as she does fall off the couch, the chair, dog beds, you get the pikshoor.  Ennyway, BossLady got up and looked around the bed and nuthin.  Then, BossLady saw a lump on the foot of the bed.  Lacy had fallen off the bed, but she was unner the cubbers at the time and was stuck between the mattress and sheet!  The sheet is long enuf that and she is tiny enough that her weight did not pull the sheet out and she was pinned.  How BossLady managed to eggstracate her without laffing and waking up  is still a mystery.  She halled Lacy out and Lacy promptly went up to the top of the bed and sprawled acrost BossLady's pillow and zonked out.  BossLady hadda move that liddle carcass that suddenly ways 200 pounds off her pillow and all Lacy did was groan and moan and refoosed to help.  Fun times.   

Ennyway, sints BossLady was off FriedDay, today to sooper crazy and she is booting me off.  Habs a grate day ebberbuddy!  

Angus  

[Are We Thare Yet??]

aww, that is wonderful!  She is quite the ambassadog and reading helper!  

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Happy ThirstDay ebberbuddy!  It habs been a sooper bizzy week for the two-leggers and rather boring for me, but that is all gonna change!  BossLady FINALLY told me about this weekend and I am sooper eggsited.  It will be bittersweet though.  Last yeer, we cud hardly be there because of the memorial service for BossLady's mom, but it was fun seeing ebberbuddy and I am eggsited to be able to see y'all eben moor!  Lass yeer was when Zeke decided to start choir practice in the vendor hall and it was so.much.fun.  All the noise for 45 hole seconds!  Now he is not heer and there will be no choir practice.  I have not sung sints he left.  I did bark last outs yesterday though, and that was the first time since Zekie lefted me.  BossLady hasta werk today and then habs her acupuncture after werk, so we won't be at ennyfing today.  We will be around all day tomorrow and SatonDay.  We are NOT going to the banquet tomorrow but are planning on Hauser's on SatonDay.  They usta be a winery and Fancy and Paris spent sum grate times there before they closed down and it changed to what is there now.  Ebberbuddy habs our phone number and we are eggsited to see you!  Lacy will be literally flying high (she habs an impressibe vertical jump) and I imagine there will be a foot on her leash most of the time.   

Lupin, we hope you are feeling bedder.  When I had haff of my toe open, I hadda ware a muzzle with a stool guard (or duck tape) to keep me from licklickicking and allow me to not have to ware that stoopid cone.  Hope you are heeling fast! 

Glad Missr Kevin found a noo plase to live and it sounds like it will work out just fine.  We feel for that lady as her kids are cleerly in this for themselves. 

Congrats on your 25 yeers of service, Mam!  Glad Pap is home and hope things settle out soonest. 

Sorry that ebberbuddy cannot come to GIG.  It is fun!  BossLady is glad it is close as Lacy still horks ebbery.single.time she is in a car for moor than 8 minutes.  Washable whelping pads are our friends these days. 

Jupe, I hope you are keeping Missr Richard on the strate and narrow and that you habs a gud guys-only time.  Miss Elizabeth, we hope you have a giud time, too, and don't werry too much about the goings-on at home. 

Wiki, we are sorry that you are not liking your kibbles!  I hadda change mine since Chewy doesn't carry it ennymoor.  Paws crost that so far things are okay.    

Way too early here to think about gardens but BossLady is itching to get started!  

She is kicking me off the computer because werk is pretty yappy today and ebberbuddy wants sumthing.  BossLady needs to figger out how she can stop this werking thing - what a time suk!   

Habs a gud day and we are eggsited to see ebberbiuddy!  Safe travels.

Angus    

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It is MoneyDay ebberbuddy!  Tackses are all dun heer.  BossLady spent over ATE hours yesserday completing the report for the Register of Wills to get her sisser's estate dun and dusted.  It included accounting, which is NOT her fortay.  She takes it to the Courthouse on ThirstDay and then waits wiff bait on her breff that it will be approved and she can close things O-W-T.  

Mebbe that balloon guy was fool of hot air - juss like a liddle puppy I no!  

Samba, it luks and sounds like you hadda grate visit with chaRlie!  Yay you!  

Andipants, I like to play ruff, too.  Howebber, I have been letting Spacy Lacy think she can run fasser then me and we like the running in the yard.  BossLady does put a stop to it when she thinks I am getting to ruff.  Promising cookies always gets Lacy in the house toot sweet.

Miss Kathy, we are so glad that you are coming to GIG but sorry that it is because that is too much trabbeling for Missr Jim right now.  We hope his fambly unnerstands his absence.  

It is way too early to start veggie gardens heer.  They are still trying to decide how to put a roof on the garden as the squirrels had a feeld day lass yeer.  BossLady did heer sum fokses ober the weekend so that may help keep the squirrels away, too.  

BossLady had her infusion today for her bones - paws crost it doesn't give her a headache like before. 

We hope Pap is doing bedder and can come home soon!

That Fallout show is being watched heer.  Bryan binge watched the whole season already.  Too much violence for BossLady but the music is very old school - she heard Nat King Cole!  

We are so sorry that liddle bat habs not been found.   

BossLady was frustrated with things on the broken wall and they sent a review questionnaire on SatonDay.  Let's just say that the wall repair starts next MoneyDay!   

Lupin, you have been getting the bestest walkies!  

Gotta run - BossLady is getting too many emails to ignore.  Habs a good day ebbebuddy!  

Angus  

 

[Bridge Angels in April 2024]

David and I adopted Zeke (LK's Zip Zap) in April 2020, after suddenly losing our boy, Sherman, in February. When he arrived at our home, it decided to rain for an entire week, making it a challenge getting him used to our home and schedule. He was NOT a fan of rain. He was, however,  the brightest ray of sunshine and had the biggest and most cheerful personality of any greyhound I have had the pleasure of catering to. When our vet met him, she declared him a joyful dog and not a greyhound LOL.

 

As is fitting, it has been raining for days. Zeke suddenly developed a mass on his shoulder and we got him in right away and x-rays confirmed our worst fears. Our beloved, ball-chasing, constantly rooing, bundle of endless energy and love, passed in our arms. He was only 6 and we did not even have 4 years with him.

 

Rest well, our goodest boy, and please let me know that you are once again chasing chuck-it balls and chewing holes in them. This loss is going to take a long, long time to work through. He was robbed of years of experiences and love, but he did squeeze the most out of every day that he was here.  I miss my boy terribly.  Angus has lost his helicopter tail, too.  We will never have another greyhound choir practice here, either.  It has been so quiet without our nightly serenade.  

 

Cindy 

 

 

[Have you seen my puppy?]

She is adorable but I would so miss the fuzzy furs.  The next thing you know, your husband is going to be telling the neighbor boy dogs that he isn't afraid to go back to prison!  My ex told that to the boys who hung around our daughter - the looks were hysterical.  Our daughter just rolled her eyes.  

[The Calm Before the Storm]

We are headed to family in Vermont this weekend and have our high boots and glasses!  My aunt has two feet of snow.  Her labs are loving it.  Glad your storm turned out to be kind of a swizz.  

[Poppy: should I use my ears for decoration or listening?]

Lacy is a 10 month old whippet and hers are clearly defective.  They do not listen nor are they decorative!  They have not even completely formed!   

[Nothing To See Here]

Aww, look at both of your pretty girls!  Paws crossed it will be years before another seizure.  Years ago (!), my last whippet had a melanoma mass on his side that had gotten removed prior to his living with me.  When he was about 13, the mass returned.  They removed it again and it never did reappear before he passed at 15.5.  Hoping you have the same success!  

 

Cindy

[Need recs for daily anxiety meds]

We have used generic prozac successfully on more than one hound.  Zeke is an anxious mess but not about walks.  He is 76 ponds,  The vet started him on 30 mg once a day and even after a couple weeks, it was more sedating than we liked, so we weaned him down to two and now he is on one 10 mg capsule a day.  The incessant whining has stopped and when he isn't having a bad disk flare, he is a happy boy. 

Angus was put on it due to space/food guarding and that has been really helpful (plus additional modifications to our routines).  The fact that he hasn't put a hole in Lacifur *yet* (I am super vigilant) speaks volumes on how well it works for him.  She is relentless.  

I also used it on an elderly whippet with separation anxiety and it got him over the hump and was eventually weaned off and remained fine. 

I have also used gabapentin when Fancy was getting anxious as her health deteriorated and it helped with her lumbar discomfort and calmed her down.  

I got both prescriptions filled at Costco (they each have canine accounts) and the medications are pretty inexpensive.  I prefer using 10 mg capsules or 100 mg capsules so I can tweak the dose without having to get a new prescription filled.  

Scritches to your cutie-pie and hope that you can find the assistance he needs to get his life back.  Anxiety sucks.  

Cindy

[What do you want for your birthday? A puppy and tacos]

She was so stinkin' cute and now she is just too cute!  Congrats on your adorable birthday gift!  Certainly sounds like you were getting some signs from beyond!  

[Consequences of being a Bandit]

I just love her!  She always manages to look so innocent.  But we know better  

[Hound Available. For Free]

How about a trade?  She lets you sleep some.  Lacifur happily sleeps through the night but HAS to be sprawled across the entire pillow while digging her bony head into your throat.  Quality sleep for the hoomom is gone but the baby sleeps great!  So a few hours of uninterrupted sleep would be a wonderful experience here!  However, we do not have any elk.  Will bear and coyote suffice?   

[Two Faces of Punkin]

Looking good, sweetie!

[Meet Steve]

What a handsome guy!  I hope he is able to fill or at least reconfigure that enormous hole in your heart from Max's passing.  Congrats!  

[Eleventy!]

Happy Birthday, beautiful!  Hard to believe that you have been here for three years and even harder to believe that you are 11!  

[Gnaw-resistant leash]

My sanity is missing but I knew that quite a while ago!  I ended up wrapping her leash in reinforced duct tape and sprayed it with Bitter Yuck.  Clearly that taste does not hang around long.  She goes after the leash when she is super excited (like when leashing up for a walk) or bored (waiting to cross the street or saying hello to a neighbor).  I was leaving the house to walk all three when an adjuster arrived (a huge tree limb decided to greet the side of our house during a storm) and she spent the entire time going after her leash.  Once we got walking, she was fine.  Lots of energy in this one and the outlets are always fast enough!  As they say, time and patience.  Patience and time.  

She cannot have any play dates with others her own size as she had a URI and we are being super cautious that it isn't kennel cough.  Results were mixed as she had gotten the vaccine when we first got her.  Once her quarantine is up, we will get her into basic obedience to tire her little brain out.  She is actively trying to get the boys to play with her and they are not interested lol.  Angus will start chasing her outside but it is so loud and fast that I cannot tell if it is playtime or lunchtime and we break that up. 

She will eventually get a new leash and I appreciate the insight!  The mountain rope leashes will be the way to go but I do not see the need to invest $$ until we have better control.  Her current one is still very strong and fine to use, according to our vet.   

I think the reason she was named Faith was a reminder for those who interact with her that one day she will relax a smidge or two.  We are just chalking up the missing pillow corners and edges of drawer handles as one of the oldest decorating styles ever - puppy.  

Thanks for the help!  Now we can say that we did do the "puppy thing" and I am much happier starting at 15 months haha.  Only 6 more months to go!  

[Gnaw-resistant leash]

Maybe one that is not under a year!  I got my last one as an adult and he was delightful.  Could still jump over baby gates though.