Cats and Dogs

The cats are coming out of their room more than ever now. Sometimes when the girls are in bed in our room, Minnie and Paulie will come out into the living room. Tabby doesn't come out as much. She got scared by the dogs once. They got excited when they saw her and she fell on her side to protect herself and they got real closed to her, all excited, and were sniffing her. That did not go over real well with Tabby. She stays in the cat room or goes under the bed in our room. Minnie, however, comes out closer and closer to them every day.


Mostly they just look at each other and then part ways.

I need to give Tabby her thyroid medicine before I go to bed tonight. She's doing okay. I think we'll have to have another round of blood work done though to see how she's really doing.

Bert and Ginger came over today and we let the girls in to visit with them. They are both dog lovers. The dogs were wonderful with them. I'm glad they aren't all crazy around people. I still think about that time we had people over from Rev Church and we had to put Moped and Skooter out in the garage in their kennels. David let them out when we were all in the garage and they went nuts. It was embarrassing (and dangerous). I'm glad the girls have manners.

I got an email from Kathy today about some new litters she has. It made me think about Moped and Skooter. None of her puppies are as cute as Mopes or Skoots but they are kissable. LOL

The girls and David are already in bed and I'm going to join them shortly. I love my girls. They are wonderful companions. David is taking the day off of work tomorrow (hockey) so the girls will have him for company, which means I don't have to run right home after work. Maybe I can meet Lisa somewhere for lunch close by. I'll have to see what her plans are. I'll try to be home before David leaves for the rink so I can see him and be home for the dogs.

Have to go to bed now. I'm getting sleepy. And if I don't go in there soon, I won't be able to get either of them to move over and give me some room on the bed to sleep. They are such bed hogs! LOLI can't remember if I posted this earlier, but even if I did it'll be great to see it again: the girls in their new collars.


Okay, I'm really going now...

Harnesses or Collars?

I went out earlier and got new harnesses for the girls. Their collars were pretty beat up and I just got their license tags in the mail today so it was a good day to buy them new hardware. We put the harnesses on them (leaving the tags on in case they didn't like them) and watched to see what they would do. Well, they moped around and looked all depressed. Blitz was afraid to jump up on the bed and stayed on her bed on the floor. Here they are:


Doesn't poor Blitzie look unhappy. I couldn't let her stay like that. So David took me back to PetCo and I exchanged the harnesses for the collars. They are very stylish with a flower design on them. Huxley's is orange and green sunflower design and Blitz's is pink and white flower design. Hopefully you can see them well enough in these pictures:


Aren't they nice collars? They adjusted to them right away (unlike the harnesses - ~sigh~). I can't believe that I care so much about my dogs' fashion statement. Oh well, there's worse things to care about. :-) And I saved about $16.50 going with the collars. Woot!

Not again!

Blitz just fell out of bed again. I was in the living room and she was in the bedroom taking a nap with David. I heard something and I looked down the hall and she was half on and half off the bed. She looked confused. LOL I think what happens is that they lay with their back to the edge of the bed and then push on David with their feet until they fall off. Huxley is playing it safe and laying on their bed on the floor.

They Make Good Avatars

I've been using pictures of Huxley and Blitz for my avatars on the MyTMMO forum. I've had compliments on them too. I love that Huxley is smiling in her picture and that Blitz has her head tilted. Blitz was out on the deck while it was snowing. Huxley was all smiles because she was going for a ride in the jeep.

"I Meant To Do That!"

Blitz was on the bed with David. He was loving on her and she flipped over to get a belly scratch. She fell right off the bed! She's fine, just a bit embarrassed.

Moped and Tabby

Tabby has been losing a lot of weight lately so we had the vet come to the house and do some blood work. While he was here he told us that he had received a call about Moped's shot record about a month ago. Mopes is supposed to be up in Aspen, but I'm worried that he was given back to the shelter again. I sent Kris an email but she has not responded to it. I hope he has a wonderful home. I sure do miss him and Skooter.

Back to Tabby though. The vet sent out the bloodwork and within days we found out that she has hyperthyroidism. Her system is crankin' and she can't keep up with it so she's losing weight. She's also not peeing in the litter box so I had to fix something up so she won't go on the rug (a big trash bag on the floor with newspapers on it). It's not what I want to be doing but we've had her for almost 16 years now and I want to give her a reasonable chance to make it through this thyroid issue.

The picture of Moped is one of my favorites because he's holding his toy bone in his mouth. And unfortunately, Tabby doesn't look like that anymore. She's skin and bones, with yucky fur. She hasn't been grooming herself and she doesn't like to be brushed or touched for that matter. I would like to get her groomed but not while she is so sick. She's been on the thyroid medicine for a while now but I haven't noticed any significant changes. As heartless as it might sound, I'm not going to invest too much money into a 15 year old cat. She's had a good life and prolonging it because I don't want to say goodbye would be selfish. Anyway, I'm still hoping for the best with her.

Where have I been??

I haven't posted about the dogs or cats for about 5 months! Yikes! It's time to get back onto that horse and ride.

I started a part-time job on November 19th, 2007. I'm a medical receptionist for a Lab and Radiology department. I work from 7:30 m until 11:30 am, Monday through Friday. I get to wear scrubs and sneakers. I really like that benefit of the job. I make pretty good money considering I hadn't worked in about 7 1/2 years before getting this job. I like the people I work with, the patients I check-in, my boss because he's on top of things and making some additional income to help get our FFEF funded.

Anyway, I ramble about going back to work because it effects Huxley and Blitz. They've been displaying some rather troubling behavior since I've gone back to work (getting out of the yard, before we reinforced it and getting into the trash and chewing on things). I do have photographic proof of the trash incidents.

This is from only 2 of the many incidents. Notice that they dragged some of trash into the dining room onto the rug. They've taken egg shells out of the trash as well as coffee grounds. That was fun to clean up. NOT! They always knew they had done something questionable too. They would get all nervous and excited when I got home from work and they'd give me that "I'm innocent" look. It was kind of cute, but picking up the garbage wasn't "cute" at all.

I've been researching trash cans that they'd have difficulty getting into. We found a plastic one with a locking lid but they figured out how to open it anyway. I don't want to have to put the trash can on the counter or in the bathroom while I'm out. There's one trash bin at Wally World that's about $80. It's stainless steel, had the foot peddle to open it (meaning it's hands free - but is it paw free!!?? lol) and doesn't have a lid that they would be able to push up so they can stick their curious little noses in it.

So, we reinforced the fence with more wire fencing around the bottom so they won't be able to get out. There are still some parts of the fence that are not reinforced though so I kind of have to keep an eye on them when they are out. For a while I was taking them out on leash. They did okay with that. I didn't do as well as they did. I was getting frustrated having to go out in the cold just to let them go out to do their business. I'm grateful for David working on reinforcing the fence.

Now when I (we) go out the dogs get put in the laundry room with their blanket. I don't like having to leave them there but I'm afraid that they will get into stuff and not be safe having the run of the house.

I've been selling things on craigslist and eBay as usual. The dogs ate some of my inventory. LOL They chewed up some hockey equipment so I had to cancel the auctions. They literally ate into my profits. They also chewed off a small portion of some hockey skates I was selling. I had to relist them with the doggie imperfection. They did sell though but not for as much as they would have sold without the chewed off corner of the boot.

Okay, I'm falling asleep and trying to type "d's" across the page, so I need to finish this post up. LOL

I'll get into more of the recent adventures of Huxley and Blitz in later posts.


By the way, it's about one thirty in the morning and I'm up but the dogs and David are in bed sleeping. Go figure...

We would have taken him back

David and I both thought the same thing when we read that Mopes had been returned: we would take him back. Thankfully he already has a new home. It was so good to hear about him. I wonder if he really did have medical problems. I'm just glad he's okay now.

Update from Kris on Moped aka Duke

Here's what Kris had to say:

"Thought I'd bring you up to date on Moped.

He got returned a week ago this past Saturday from the family that we had placed him with in Castle Rock. They were all teary eyed . They said that he has a medical problem that causes him to lose weight and have constant diarrhea. Well, when they brought him here, his weight was just fine and his stool appeared totally normal. I guess we'll never know the real reason they returned him - our clause in the contract says that we'll take the dog back - no questions asked, so I guess that part will remain a mystery.

Moped looked wonderful! He is a very bouncy, happy boy. His appearance hasn't changed much - he's just a bigger model than before. Very well mannered, loved playing with all the youngsters we have here and was delightful to have visit - yep visit, he got adopted the very next day. This all happened so quickly that I didn't even get a picture taken of him to post to the website. An absolutely wonderful family that lives up in the mountains nearby Aspen adopted him. They recently lost their 6-year old GSP to cancer and now were ready to add another GSP to their life. The family consists of mom and dad, daughter age 11, and son age 17. All dog crazy and a very active family. They own a monstrous home with about 35 acres of mountainside. Only 5 acres of that is fenced with the invisible fencing and Moped is learning to respect the boundaries. I've gotten a couple of updates on his progresses, but still no picture. When I receive one, I will send it on to you.

Moped is safe, he's in good hands and he has turned out to be a wonderful young dog. I never heard him bark or anything. Such a good boy.

So there's an update on at least one of your baby boys."

I'm so glad to know that he was adopted out right away. Otherwise I'd want to go get him. :-)

Berries

I picked up the girls. They smell like berries. They were able to clip their nails pretty short. I am very happy with the job they did. It cost $70. I saved $10 in coupons. I am very happy and so are they. They feel so soft and smell so good. They really deserved this and so did we. They are too excited for me to get a picture of them. I'll take one tomorrow when it's light out. I'm so glad we have the money to get them groomed. It's worth every penny.

Grooming was on sale today!

I brought the dogs over to PetCo. They seemed to enjoy the ride over. When I tried to walk them in they wouldn't go in. There was an animal rescue place outside the door and they had cats. Yikes! At one point Blitz got out of her collar and ran. Thankfully she came back when I called her. I was terrified. I saw that there was a door inside the double doors to get into the grooming place. I brought them in that way so if they got off the lead they would at least be in the store. I got them to go into the grooming place. They also had a hard time going back into the kennel area. I couldn't believe they were acting like that. I told the girl to call me if she had any trouble with them. She hasn't called. They were having a deal on the works today so I got everything done for only $70 (plus tax I think). I saved about $20. Woohoo! And I'll have sweet smelling babies when I pick them up. Which should be any time now. It's 6pm and they've been there for about 2 hours now.

The phone just rang. It was PetCo. I have to go pick up the girls.

'The Works'

I'll be taking the girls, in about a half an hour, to get groomed, nails clipped and teeth brushed. They will be gorgeous and smell delicious when they are done. It'll cost a bit more than I was planning on spending to get 'the works' but it needs to be done and I'd rather just do it now instead of going multiple times. I'm sure they will enjoy it. They'll love getting out, I know that. I'll take pictures of them once I get them home. They are napping with David right now. Lazy dogs.

Peed on the carpet AGAIN!!

One of the girls peed on the carpet in the living room today. We're not sure which one of them did it because we didn't actually see either of them do it. Thankfully it cleaned up okay. I can't believe that one of them did that right in front (well, okay not in front) of us. I was busy going through the paper and I'm not sure what David was doing. I've already given the girls their medicine for the night. They are outside right now. BRB.

I had to let the girls in. Minnie was on my lap while they were out. She almost always comes out when they are out. She loves to get in my lap and lick her belly while purring.

Okay, they are ready for bed, so it must be bedtime. lol

Funny faces

Yikes! It's been a while since I updated the Dog Blog. I've been spending a lot of time looking for a part-time job. I had my first interview yesterday. I think it went well. The only problem I could have if offered the job is the dogs. I can't leave them for more than four hours at a time. I thought about installing a doggy door for them. I'd have to block off the kitty door so the cats wouldn't get out while I was gone. I'm not sure how much the doggy door and installation would cost. I'll have to look into that. It would be nice to have a doggy door anyway so I wouldn't have to spend so much time letting the dogs in and out. Of course, I'd have to worry about them getting under the fence while I was gone. Hmmm? Hopefully the hours won't be an issue. I've also applied for a job with savingdinner.com to be an at home Customer Support Representative. That would be a great job because I wouldn't have to leave the dogs at all. The hours would be from 6am to 10am though. I could do that if I needed to do it. I also applied for a job that looks like it has evening and weekend hours. David would be home to take care of the dogs in that case. I'll just have to see what happens with these positions. It will either work out that I can go back to work or it won't work out. I'd like the extra money but we can live without it if we have to. Anyway, the dogs haven't done a whole lot of anything lately. They still sleep a lot. Blitz is in bed already and Huxley is sleeping on the couch. I'm still giving them the Benadryl. They do really well with taking the Benadryl - hardly any licking at all. It really does help their allergies.

David heard from Dyrk that Olie and Genesis have Lyme's Disease. Olie had a seizure tonight. I hope they both will be okay. They are on medication for the LD. Skooter's mom died from complications of a tick bite, so I worry about Olie and Genesis. Speaking of Skooter, I still miss him tremendously. And I miss Moped too. I still think that I made the right choice to give them up, but it doesn't keep me from missing them. Pretty much every night when I get up the pictures of Skooter with his new owner pops up on the laptop. And there's always a cute pic of Moped too. Once in a while I think about changing the screen saver so that it's not Skooter and Moped's pictures reminding me that they are gone. But I just can't change the screen saver.

I do love having Huxley and Blitz here. I don't think I would be happy if they were not here. I enjoy having them steal the covers and hog the bed at night. lol I know David has grown fond of them. He's always calling them into the bedroom when he goes in to take a nap.

We got to visit with Woody last night. He is so well behaved. He didn't do too bad at all with kids ringing the doorbell all night (Halloween).

Here's a picture of Blitz making faces. Isn't it cute? Huxley is trying to hide under David's blanket. They are so goofy.

Snow in October

It snowed yesterday. The dogs didn't seem to mind going out in it though. I haven't been giving them Benadryl lately but they are starting to lick a lot so I'm going to put them back on the Benadryl. They are starting to figure out where to lay in bed at night so I don't have to shove them over every time I get up.

Good Morning

David snapped this photo this morning. A picture IS worth a thousand words.

We all enjoy a good sleep. lol

No internet access at home

I haven't been able to update the Dog Blog lately because I don't have internet access at home right now. It won't be hooked up again until the 24th of October. Yikes! I'm at the library typing this. I'll try to download some pictures soon. I have some cute ones of the girls. Things have been going well with them. Blitz has been whiney, but what's new! I'll try to do some blogging on this site tomorrow when I come back to the library. Adios.

The afternoon nap

Do I even need to say anything? I think not...

Lazy dog and Camo-dog

Here's Blitz laying on the couch. Notice that she's using the folded blanket as a pillow. Spoiled or what?



And here's Huxley playing Camo-dog. Can you see her? lol

Uh oh!

Huxley peed on the carpet last night! Yep. Peed on the carpet. They both were whining like they saw something outside. They sounded like they would go nuts if I let them out so I didn't. A minute later Huxley caught my attention. She was squatting on the rug, doing her business. Thankfully I was able to get it cleaned up without too much fuss. Poor girl just wanted to go out to go to the bathroom and I wouldn't let her. lol

The cat is outside this morning so the girls are whiney and pacing. They want to go out and get the cat. There's too much of a chance that they will go under the fence, so I'm not letting them out. I'm keeping an eye on Huxley though ;-)

The picture is from our trip to Garden of the Gods last weekend.