Off to the Vet Again!

This is my puppy picture. Wasn't I a cutie?! It makes me feel good to see myself so peaceful. I'm still having trouble opening my mouth so my people took me back to the doctor. This time I saw two of them and they both poked around, tried to open my mouth and it made me cry real loud it hurt so bad. Even the vets were sad. Then the were real nice to me and rubbed me all over, it felt good. I got another needle stick, this time I heard them say they were testing enzyme levels.

I feel a little better, I have some new medicine my humans hide in really yummy food so I eat it okay. I still can't open my mouth enough to yawn or catch a toy but I feel like playing, I just can't do much. I can't play tug of war with Scarlett, she pulls too hard and hurts my mouth.

My humans will know more on Tuesday. If they can't find anything out from the blood I just gave then they will have to do more tests of my liver and kidneys before they can make me go to sleep for x-rays.

I sure wished I'd get better soon. I have to turn my head sideways even to yawn a little bit and I still only eat my food on one side and it has to be soft food. Maybe my new stronger antibiotics will help but no one knows what's wrong so I can only hope. The food and attention are great but I'd rather feel like myself again.

It's dark out now and time for bed. Maybe tomorrow I'll be better. - Sarge

When Food Isn't Fun, You Go To The Vet

Sunday afternoon, I found that I couldn't enjoy my favorite pastime...eating. My humans were being nice to me again by giving me my favorite treat... Beggin Strips, but when I opened my mouth it hurt so much, I just dropped it immediately, and of course Miss Scarlet snatched it up right away, while I could only look on helplessly. Right away my humans, especially Snippy, knew something was wrong. Sam should have guessed a little earlier, when he threw one of my favorite toys, a beanie baby for me to catch and it hit me right in the face. I just couldn't open my mouth. Sam thought I just didn't want to play, sometimes I really wish my humans could speak in "dog" instead of those strange sounds they make. Anyway, Snippy and Sam kept feeling my mouth and sticking their hands all over my jowls and mouth, I don't know what they were looking for but all they ended up with were slimy fingers. Then they talked to someone on the ringing machine, even if it didn't ring, I guess it works even when it doesn't make that ringing noise first. Nothing happened for the rest of the day except I did get some hamburger that I could sort of "lick" into my mouth, which sure isn't as much fun as snarfing my food, you get too little in too long a time by licking.

Anyway, this morning they locked Miss Scarlett into her cage, that'll teach her to steal my treats! Then I got to put on my collar extension that my humans use to try and stop me from running around and exploring. I got into the moving box that takes me places faster than I can run and we went to see the Vet. Sam and Snippy left me there, but I didn't mind too much, there were so many new smells to explore and humans to meet.

While my humans were gone, it seemed like forever, the Vet poked and prodded me and tried to open my mouth, but it hurt so much I let him know that I didn't like that. Then he stuck me with a tiny sharp, steel stick. After a while, it didn't hurt so much to open my mouth but I still can't get it all the way open and "snarfing" my food is out of the question. My humans said that the Vet isn't sure what is the matter with me; he said something about a pus-ball behind my eye, but that the other symptoms that come along with that aren't present. He thinks maybe my humans noticed my problem early enough that my infection isn't bad enough to have all the symptoms yet. He gave them two bottles of stuff that I have to take starting tomorrow, but since I can't open my mouth, they'll have to put the stuff into "soft and smelly" food. OH Boy! OH Boy! I love soft and smelly!!

Anyway, looks like I get to eat some really good stuff for a while. Hopefully in a few days I can get back to being my normal self and snarfing my food and catching toys in my mouth instead of licking food and getting hit in the face by my toys.

Sarge

Speaking of Foxholes...

Scarlett makes me dig, it's all her fault but I get in trouble. You see, somewhere in her family line there must have been sheep herders. She chases me and corners me all the time. She bites my back legs and bosses me around.

I get backed up against the porch or a corner of the fence and dig in. It's all I can do, she won't let me get around her. Then Pa comes out and hollers, gets this big scooping tool and fills the hole back in. That's really nice of my human because then I get to dig it up again next time Miss Scarlett chases me. That's almost everyday! Yippee. My humans are so nice. I don't like it when they holler but it only last a few seconds, kind of like GRRRRRR.

They know it's just the way Miss Scarlett and I are. Having fun and digging in the sand. All this digging makes me hungry. I think I'll go stomp around by the treat box until they give in. :-)

Sarge

Gotta Love Sleep Number Beds

Since our humans got "our" sleep number bed, we've haven't been getting them up at 05:30 every morning. We like "our" new bed so much that we're no longer the Doggie Alarm Clocks we used to be. We let our humans sleep as long as they want, but they seem to be upset on certain days and Mom has to rush out to someplace called "work".

But that bed is soooooo comfy we don't want to get up.

Now if we can only figure out the secret of the doorknob, we could get into the bedroom during the day when they lock us out of the bedroom.

Miss Scarlett

It's a Dog's Life and it's good.

We are two dogs living with 2 humans. We have a huge yard, we eat good and play all day. At night we even let our people share the bed with us at. Miss Scarlett is the queen of the house, you almost never see her sitting or sleeping on the floor, she likes her comforts.

She's bossy. She likes to herd me around by my collar. I'm laid back and am nice to everyone. I like to jump on everyone because I'm sure everyone loves me.

My favorite food is food. Any food. Miss Scarlett knows this and saves her treats until I have finished mine and she flaunts it around making me jealous. We are best of friends only because I put up with a lot from her and she keeps me company.

We have good humans in the pack and they are good hunters and providers so we let them hang around. I have to go now, I think I smell something cooking! - Sarge