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We Are Off!

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Today is the big day! We are leaving for the cabin in less than six hours.

I have so much to do before I leave, but my bags are packed (and so are everyone else’s) so I figure I’m doing alright. My camera is charged and my list for the store is complete. I have to run to Sams Club for the makings of the feast we indulge in while we are down there, and I have to give Stinky Magoo (aka. Bluto the stinkiest bulldog in the West) a bath AND wash out his kennel since he is the only dog I have ever owned that just doesn’t care about peeing on himself. I have a ton of laundry still, but the machine only runs so fast…. yet I sit here feeling off and just wanting to do nothing.

Monkey is playing so sweetly upstairs, and I know if I jump in the shower and she sees me go in, she will go wild. It’s as if the sound of the water somehow translates into crack pulsating through her veins, because I swear nothing gets broken until I am in the shower. Well, except the curtain she pulled out of the wall the other day, but that’s off topic and a whole other story…

With that, I am off… Off the computer and back on the to do list. Off to the southern most part of the state known as the Spanish Peaks. Off to join the wild life, take lots of pictures and get lost in the silence.

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Bull Headed

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Bluto often sleeps most of day long without more noise than the occasional snort, proving he might be the laziest dog I have ever met.

However, lately when he is in his kennel at night he has been whining. We got into the habit of letting him out before we went to bed, and if we ever forgot, we would find quite the mess in the kennel in the morning. I always found this odd, since most dogs won’t go in the kennel, but read online Bulldogs will make a mess in their kennel when they are upset with their owners.

This was also confirmed by Melody of Lobopuppies.com who indicated she has a ‘diva dog’ who will relieve herself on the floor if Melody doesn’t throw her toy as soon as it is dropped at her feet!

However, cleaning the kennel and the dog is much easier since we now own a dog that is less than 7lbs, so I was happy to do it, blaming myself for not paying attention.

However, today, Travis let Bluto out for his morning duties and put him back into his kennel after since Monkey and I were not up yet. I came downstairs less than 30 minutes later and found a urine soaked puppy and a very smelly living room.

I got everything cleaned up, the dog fed and medicated (the last of his second prescription of giardia meds) and started my morning routine. I fed Monkey, cleaned the kitchen and living room and pulled out the vacuum. I let Bluto outside to do his business again, and when I let him in he immediately hid under the couch because I started vacuuming the living room and he’s a big baby.

As I walked back from putting the vacuum away, I hear Monkey say “She peed on the carpet” (Monkey thinks everyone is a ‘she’). I came around the corner and sure enough – not one, not two, but three different pee spots on the carpet!

Why? We had a good morning, he was pampered and brushed and fed and even had a piece of cheese with his pill. We had played and he was curled up by the fire just prior to this whole incident.

Could he be so bull headed that he was mad that I actually vacuumed even though he doesn’t like it? If that is the case, what everyone has said is right. My second baby is my problem child.

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Blury Vision

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I have been thinking a lot about perspective ever since Monkey decorated the Christmas tree and only decorated the bottom half. I offered several times to pick her up so she could reach higher, but really she wanted it decorated just for her line of sight.

Travis and I research most things. We are very internet savvy, and we don’t purchase anything without a lot of studying and prayer. Typically due to our personalities, Travis more does more of the research, and I more of the prayer, but both of us try to do what we feel God is leading us to do.

The same theory applied when we purchased a puppy from lobopuppies. However, this was something I had done most of the research on, and I felt like I convinced Travis to follow my lead. Then the dog was sick. Nothing life threatening, and nothing that makes us love him any less, but sick nonetheless. The following day I found the online articles about epuppypro and lobopuppies. I kept trying to tell myself there are always two sides to every story, and to focus on my situation. But, I was embarrassed since I pretty much told Travis ‘don’t worry, I’ve got this one’. I felt like I had let the family down, and I felt I trusted a stranger after just a few phone calls to do the right thing, and in my perspective that trust was misplaced.

After several conversations it occurred to me that Melody at lobopuppies was doing the right thing in her eyes. She had shipped the dog the day after we purchased him, and had followed the contract with regard to what she would and would not cover as far as the health guarantee. She has been running ragged due to the holiday season, and she has a family member who is very ill and in the hospital. Once she realized how I viewed the situation, she did offer to pay for our vet bills and she did order the pedigree with no charge to us. As I mentioned in a previous post, the money for the vet bills are not important to us. We just want the dog to be healthy, and care and upkeep of any pet is to be expected. We are not going to send her the bills, but it restored my faith that she offered, and it instantly changed my view of the situation. (more…)

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