Happy New Year! 2024 is a good colour year according to my synesthesia, so let's hope it bodes well.

Pax decided to cap off 2023 by eating a bunch of plastic, which was not cool. We didn't discover this had been done for several hours, however, and as he was showing no signs of distress, we elected to monitor him and, without going into graphic ( Read more... )

Eeek! I get worse and worse in updating my journal. Here I am, though, alive ( Read more... )

Hello, there! I'm doing one of my 'I'm still alive' check-ins. Hope all y'all are doing well and making it through the first 1/12th of 2023 without too much drama ( Read more... )

Pax is four whole years old!


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We've always joked that each Scottie we've had has been progressively more weird and eccentric than the last one (with the possible exception of Shilling, who was not as eccentric as Puzzle), but I swear Pax has the be the most baffling little creature we've had yet. It seems like we're always trying to figure out why he won't do something or is ( Read more... )

You might recall me talking a lot on here about how Pax is so difficult about putting his leash on and we were never really sure why, and we'd tried all sorts of things to convince him and sometimes he just decides he's not going today.

Well, we've noticed he's had a funny gait and sometimes limps if he's been walking for a while, so we asked the ( Read more... )

Hello, folks! Happy Belated Halloween and also Canadian Thanksgiving to you!

We were able to celebrate both this year, which was nice. We went to my brother and sister-in-law's place for Thanksgiving, and had a lovely time. And we were able to hand out candy this year (we chose not to last year for COVID reasons, but we're all double vaxxed and we ( Read more... )

It's Pax's birthday today! He's three years old! Here he is post-birthday cookie:

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Hello, folks! Hope you are well.

We were able to see my brother and his wife on Father's Day, with the COVID restrictions easing slightly! We did it outside and it was lovely, and my dad was so happy. They also have a new cat we hadn't met yet, who is so, so cute. They have an 11-year-old cat named Jack who is very aloof and anti-social, and now ( Read more... )