So what happened with Bo was, about two months ago we noticed that he was less enthusiastic about his dog food than usual, and there were intermittent traces of blood in his saliva when he licked his paws. We couldn't see any obvious bleeding -- it was just a pink tinge in his spit. We thought maybe that he'd cut his tongue on a cat food can, ( Read more... )

February 2009 - August 25, 2021
RIP
The Best Dog In The World

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Bo went to the vet today to have his teeth cleaned, and have one bad molar extracted. He's home and doing fine, but he's all groggy from the anesthesia, and his hind legs are wobbly. For awhile he kept getting up, wandering around, and collapsing, from floor to couch to floor again, but he's finally fallen asleep. We'll have to wake him up ( Read more... )

Long-time readers of this journal may remember that in years gone by we have had various contretemps with neighborhood dogs. There was Maverick, the fear-aggressive German Shepherd next door, who was unfortunately afraid of everything and everyone except his owners. As long as he lived, never saw Kathy, me, or any of our dogs as anything but ( Read more... )

Just grumpy. I've had interviews at five places so far, and have a sixth scheduled for this Friday. Three of them have given me the "Thanks for applying, but we're going with someone else." The fourth one hasn't definitively dumped me yet, but they are really looking for someone with skills I don't have, so I expect them to do so any day ( Read more... )

A while ago, I noticed what looked like a tiny scrape on Bo's nose, as if a teeny piece of the black shiny nose skin had come off. It wasn't bleeding or anything, and he didn't seem to be bothered, so I assumed that one of the cats had taken a swipe at him. Over the next couple of weeks, though, the spot got larger. Then I noticed that he was ( Read more... )

Fifteen degrees below average today, which in Phoenix means it's 52F. Shut up, that's cold for here ( Read more... )

I have a whole list of things I would like to do to fix up the back yard now that the block fence is complete: put up a patio over the back porch, plant a couple of bushes or perhaps even a tree, put up a rain gutter on the portion of the roof over the tiki bar, go over to the place that sells scrap iron and see if there are any pieces suitable for ( Read more... )

This weekend just zipped by. We spent a lot of it cleaning out closets -- a necessity, as we had reached Maximum Closetage, and something had to go. With much weeping and gnashing of teeth, we got rid of such items as all the round tablecloths that don't fit our rectangular table, and the huge stack of vinyl records we've picked up over the last ( Read more... )

OK, dog? I may not have explained this to you in sufficient detail before, but the reason we get the schmancy organic biodegradable cat litter is so we do not die of inhaling clay dust while changing it, NOT to make it easier for you to eat cat poop.


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