I’m not so sure about that. When they were still little puppies (as in, actually puppies), their breath was so nice. Now, it smells like breath. It’s not nasty or anything. Their teeth aren’t rotting or even particularly stained. But, it still has the ever-present smell of dog food, which just might be the only thing in the world that smells worse than baby food oatmeal.
I talked to the vet this morning. She told me to put a warm compress on it (already did) and then some Bacitracin or other antibiotic creamy thing. She said to keep an eye out for infection but that other than that, there’s not really anything I can do. She then told me about the tick spoons and laughed at me when I said I had meant to buy one when I was there a few weeks ago but forgot.
My sweet little Ginger isn’t ignoring me anymore and she doesn’t seem to be in any pain. But, she also isn’t snuggling with me. Maybe she just doesn’t want to snuggle. She didn’t snuggle with my boyfriend either.
I was totally on a roll last night. After torturing my poor puppy, I also accidentally shaved my boyfriend’s head. He handed me the trimmer and I started trimming without putting an attachment on first. The good thing is that he likes it (thank god!) and that he has the head for it. It actually looks quite good. I didn’t go all the way to the skin. He has maybe 1/8 of an inch of hair. Maybe.
good grief! you’ve had quite the day of it. perhaps you should stay in bed under the covers with the puppies.
I wish I could. But, my mom is coming to visit today and I have government homework to finish within the next 12 hours. And I have to pay bills. If I were smart and/or motivated, I’d get a start on my homework for the coming week (week starts on Wednesday) - something I never do and always wish I had. But, I probably wont.
Ah, another target while you’re on a roll!
Seriously, doggies will recover pretty quickly. Simone squirms and rolls here eyes in terror when we do some things like nail clipping or looking in her mouth, but she gets over it fast, and she has a nurturing personality so she loves on everyone.
It all worked out pretty well. We found another tick (on Holly this time) but the Frontline must have actually done its job because it wasn’t fighting me and it came right out and into the fire.
My boyfriend is much much happier with his hair (or lack of). He had to go to another college yesterday and a college girl was making eyes at him.
One funny thing happened with Ginger though. It was raining really hard this morning, around 2 and I wanted to go to bed but I had to get the girls to pee. I waited and waited but the rain wouldn’t lighten up so at 3 I finally said screw it and took them out. They were really unhappy in the rain and wouldn’t pee for over 5 minutes so when we came in we were all soaked to the bone. I dried them off and sent them to the crate but instead of the usual half piece of cheese each, I gave them each a slice of chicken breast (I had one too).
Ginger bitched and moaned and whined for over an hour. I had my headphones on so couldn’t hear her. My boyfriend finally got annoyed and took her outside again but she didn’t do anything out there. Then she ran and stood in front of the fridge until he took out a slice of cheese. She ran back to the crate, got her cheese and then watched until he got into bed and put his CPAP mask on. THEN she rolled up really tight and went to bed.
Since he had been in bed with his mask on and he’s not the one who brings them out before bed, the only thing that could have been pissing her off was the lack of cheese. Apparently chicken isn’t good enough.
Apparently, the KFC Double Down was invented by a dog to make the chicken taste better. Who knew?
Oh my god! I had to look that up. I want one! That looks really good. Somehow I don’t think my babies would complain if I gave them fried chicken. Sadly, the closest KFC to me is over 20 minutes.
Where are puppy pictures?
Edit: Oops just saw post #17. Sweetie pie.
HA! There are over 300 puppy pictures on that link. Wallow in puppy heaven! For every puppy picture I upload to photobucket, I probably delete about 10.
I got a camera for Christmas and puppies (and a trip to Disney) for my birthday 3 weeks later so you want puppy pictures, I’ve got puppy pictures.
If I had to be a puppy I think I’d want to be yours.
Aww, thanks Ivory! It’s a damn good thing I don’t want children because there’s no way they could compete.
Tell me you didn’t shave your mother.
LOL No. My mother escaped without damage of any kind, which is good since part of her kidney is going to be sucked out tomorrow. I had to be gentle with her.
Oh my lord, I just lol’d on the Dope. I’m spending too much time on Facebook.
The first doctoring on a pup is always traumatic.
The best thing I ever taught my lab Clancy was “Doctor Dad”. Started out saying that when taking thorns out of his paws (damn goat heads are everywhere where we live) and could eventually do darned near anything to him and he seemed to recognize it was for his own good, and he was pretty good about holding still. I sure do miss that guy.