Need a Puppy Fix?

The puppies will be four weeks old tomorrow and they are going great. There have been a few late nights of crying and whining but they are healthy.

Their eyes are wide open.

Teeth are growing in and being put to good use…..sort of;

and they are attentive and curious.  Everything you would expect from peppy puppies.

These little bundles of energy can tucker you out, it is 7 against 1 after all.

I confess to sitting them in front of the “babysitter” so I can get a break, but that never lasts very long.

These two were in the middle of a secret private conversation that I couldn’t hear.

It looked like it was getting a little heated for a minute there,

but it turned out it was just getting boring….at least it was for him.

Instead he decided it was time to square off with his brother on the other side of the blanket.

“I’m the boss man here in this litter and don’t you forget it.”

“You best know your place in this litter…..kapish?”

“You ain’t the boss of me!”

“End of discussion….I am boss man!  We’re done!”

“You just wait one minute…..I’m not done talking.”

It continued one like that for a few minutes, until I stepped in and said, “Enough, I am boss man and I say go to your blanket and lay down.”

In a matter of a few minutes everyone was pass, twitching and whimpering in their sleep.

Too see more unedited, uncensored puppy pictures go here.

Interrupting Our Regularly Scheduled Program for PUPPIES!

Sometime between October and November we took in a stray chocolate lab we named Girlie.  At the end of January, Girlie and Jake learned about the birds and the bees.  Yesterday after a short road trip we came home to a proud Mama of 8 puppies.    She caught us a little by surprise, we though she was going to have the puppies tomorrow.

Mama is doing well and so are all the puppies.  She had 4 females and 4 males, 3 black, 2 yellow and 3 chocolate.  Look at those cute little paws and tiny tail.

The girls all weigh 10 oz, three of the boys weight 12 oz and one big boy weights 14.5 oz.  He is HUGE!  That’s him, the yellow one in the middle.  His head reminds me of Brain from Pinky and The Brain.

He hardly never lets go!

So anyone want a lab puppy in 8 weeks?

Everyone Needs Their Beauty Sleep

Buster and I were discussing the other day how hard we both work and if you don’t take care of yourself it can take a toll on you.  He was telling me how tired he gets chasing after squirrels, barking at the kids skateboarding in front of our house and nosing through the trash in the bathroom.

He agreed that it is very important to get plenty of rest, to keep yourself young and youthful.  It  also helps to ward off tired eyes, dark circles under the eyes and it is good for your over all health.

From the looks of him I would say that the sleep is doing it’s job.  Isn’t he the cutest?

A Fella of Opportunity

Last night I had to fold some clothes fresh out of the dryer.  I dumped them on the bed and walked away to get some hangers.

When I came back this is what I found. Do you see this?  Can’t see?  Let’s take a closer look.

Buster takes advantage of opportunity and I can’t blame him.  It was a cold day and he made himself a bed in some warm clothes.

This is probably just one of the reasons I have to walk around with a lint roller in my purse.

Christmas Eve

It started snowing around 4 pm Christmas Eve and after our Evil Knievel drive home from church this was the state of our backyard at 7:00 pm. 

Obed immediately got suited up and ran outside with the dogs to play in the snow.

They ran around and played and the labs stuck their faces in the snow trying to eat it.  Buster and Honey decided it was better to stay inside, I don’t blame them since the snow came up to their chests.

I am glad he enjoyed the snow because this is what he had to do Christmas morning.

The People’s Court

Haircut, Headband or Scrunchi?

I walked into the kitchen early this morning to find Buster sitting in the middle of the kitchen.  I looked at him and thought dude brush your hair.  Then I thought really I should cut your hair.  I use to cut it into this cute mohawk that was so appropriate for his personality.

Then I thought maybe I could just get a mini version of those big poofy headbands Hilary Clinton use to wear back in the early 90′s.

Then again knowing him that won’t hold for very long so maybe a velvet scrunchi.  Remember when we all had those velvet scrunchis or better yet the stone-wash denim scrunchi?

Then I thought what the heck let’s go way back in time and try a banana clip!  Does anyone know where I can get a mini-banana clip for Buster here.  It would produce a pretty sweet faux-hawk.   Then I can hold off on the haircut a bit more….since he is such a fan of that….NOT!

 

The Cone of Shame

THE COOOOONNEE OF SHAAAAAMME! *insert here tunnel echo effect*

You may have seen on my Twitter status that I was back at the vet with the big dog.  Who is only big in size because Buster, who is only 19 lbs vs. his 73 lbs, bosses him around quite a bit.  Jake is a big lovable lug that developed a pretty bad itching problem.

Our dogs are treated with flea treatment but the fleas here are like mutant cyborgs or something, because when the heat came they were suddenly covered.  We took Jake to the vet a month ago to find out that he has a really bad allergy to flea bites.  After a steroid injection,  an anti-inflammatory injection and anti-biotic for Jake and Capstar, flea bath and some Front-line for every one, Jake was doing much better.

Fast forward 2 1/2 weeks later.   I notice weird streaks of blood on the walls, which freaked me out.  I check Buster and he was clear, checked Honey and she was clear then I checked Jake, at first he looked fine until I checked his hind legs and tail.  He was eating himself alive!  He was gnawing his hair off and had a few open soars.  UGH!  I checked Buster and Honey again and they had FLEAS!  WHAT THE HECK!  It wasn’t time for their next dosage yet!  Grrrr. 

That afternoon I called the vet and we were back for another round of a steroid injection, anti-inflamatory, anti-biotics and the COOOOONNE OF SHAAAAAAME!

He is doing much, much better now and the cone is off.  Vet says that we need to give them their drops every 3 weeks and shampoo them with the flea shampoo at least everyother week.  Otherwise we will be at the vet again giving a generous “donation” NOT!

 

Lazy Saturday Morning

The Saturday morning ritual I think is a sacred one.  It is the one day that we do not have to get up early for any reason.  We don’t have work, church and we do our best not to schedule anything in the morning.  The idea is to sleep in, lounge on the couch while watching cartoons and just hang out.

You know lay low like broccoli.

Be chillin like a villain. (Could I get any cheesier?)

At some point in the day we do a few chores. Hubby has the task of going through all of our mail for the week and deciding what is trash and want needs attention. Buster decided he would help him out.

He was reviewing every piece of paper that went into that bag. Diligently making sure that some important bill or piece of paper didn’t get thrown away.

Checking it once and checking it twice.

After awhile he was drowning in paperwork.

And it just kept piling up.

Finally Buster became very overwhelmed with all the work and just fell asleep. Hubby and I had to write him up for falling asleep on the job. No milk biscuits for him.

Squirrel!

Sometimes I wish he could talk, only sometimes. Most times I am so grateful that he can’t talk.

SQUIRREL!  I am going to get you squirrel!

 

Come here little squirrel….

One of these days this force field won’t be here to protect you and I will get you!  Mark my words I will get you!

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