CJ went back to the doggie dentist today for her followup. She's lost a pound (I think Roxie found it) and the dentist thinks her mouth is almost healed, but he wanted her to wear the cone for another 5-7 days. Wanna guess what CJ did today? If you guessed split the cone in two trying to get out of the crate, you would be correct. No more cone. I ( Read more... )

Things didn't improve after Friday. Turns out Hectic Red played their 25th anniversary gig Saturday. I didn't find out until that day...and I was too worn out and too broke to go. CJ did well in training Saturday, but I can't take her to either of the following classes, and she did more damage to her crate Sunday - in fact, there is a piece of ( Read more... )

The TV volume has behaved the last 48 hours. I don't know what was up with that. But that beeping noise is back, just a few hours after my latest fix. I can't even figure out WHAT is beeping, dangit. Meanwhile CJ needed just 12 hours to bust the newly reattched latches off the crate.

No wonder I'm watching Dr. Horrible.

Congress of Gamers, that is. I finally gave up and bought an advance, full weekend pass to it...then decided I couldn't afford to stay over until Sunday, and I'm so tired and hurting that frankly I don't know that going tomorrow is a good idea. But I paid for the whole thing. And I haven't gamed in a few weeks. I guess I'll have to see how I feel ( Read more... )

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Yep. Doggie Alcatraz, the crate dogs can't destroy or escape from? Yeah, she escaped from it. Didn't destroy it, fortunately, but CJ figured out how to work the latches and open the crate door. She got out a couple of times this weekend, long enough to munch on socks and sleep on my pillow, but she made the mistake of trying to escape while I was ( Read more... )

CJ's new, expensive, 'doggie Alcatraz' crate arrived yesterday. Took me (with 'help' from Mom, who doesn't know the difference between a bolt and a nut now) almost 2 hours to haul it upstairs (it weighs around 50-60 pounds), clean it and put it together. Except for the latches, which seem a little weak, this sucker is solid. Half-inch posts and 3/4 ( Read more... )

Took me over an hour just to get home, so many roads were closed or should have been. Turned around twice. And that's supposed to keep up another couple of hours, so I passed on gaming tonight. Which figures, because I got almost no sleep last night, had a headache all day, had nothing to do at work half the day, and oh yeah, CJ totalled a lot more ( Read more... )

Partly because I slept in, partly because I was achy all over, but mostly because the jackass with the dog crate e-mailed Sunday night to say he still had the crate and would I like to pick it up on Monday? So I e-mailed back, gave him my cell number again, and waited. And of course, not a peep. I want the damn crate, and I can't afford one new, ( Read more... )

I think I found a solution - a veterinary quality, stainless steel enclosed crate that CJ couldn't destroy for anything, second hand and about 10% of its original sale price. Problem: I found it on craigslist, took the guy a week just to e-mail me back and now that I'm desperate he's not calling me with pickup info. *headdesk*