Vet Visit

Yesterday…

My Rabies vaccine expired today, so yesterday I got to go visit Dr. Alt. I really like her, but I mostly like all the attention and treats I get!!!!! Well, it turned out to be a little more than just a vaccine visit. I’ve had diarrhea and I like to vomit a lot. Mommy and I are pretty used to this because I was born this way, but grammy and grampy seem to think it’s an issue. Dr. Alt says that maybe I have a food allergy. I am already on hydroxyzine, but she said that I should try changing my diet. So for the next 6 weeks I get to eat delicious hypo-allergenic bits with whitefish mixed in!!! (hey, it was the only prescription protein that I haden’t already been exposed to!). And just for a baseline…..mommy and my doctor decided to do a full blood panel – I dont think I’ve had one of those since like, EVER! My mom just got the call and “Jack’s blood looks WONDERFUL! I see absolutely nothing that makes me even a little bit concerned”. YAY!!! Apparently this is good news Also, my heart and lungs sound super, and I even got my anal glands expressed (I did NOT like that). But hey, at least I got this free bandana!

2 Fun Days for My Doggie Self

Monday was a pawesome day for me (i know today is Friday, but my mom wouldn’t let me use the computer until now…).  Around 6:30 at night, when I usually get to eat dinner, my mom hooked up my harness and leash and took me out for a walk.  Well, this was weird for me, but I never pass up a walk, so I just went with it.  When we got into downtown Kirkland, we went into my favorite store, Barkz, where I thought I was going to get a treat.  But……..the place was FULL of doggies!  Doggies that were just my size!!!!!  Turns out that Laura had decided to sign me up for Monday night play group.  I got to play with 2 Boxers, a bulldog, a Bassett Hound (boy did that thing look weird!) a lab and a golden retriever.  Half an hour of pure, unadulterated play time….ahhhhhh.  I can’t wait until next Monday!  Another good day for me was Wednesday.  My mommy worked so when she got home, she didn’t know if Gracie and I had been fed yet.  We were pretty interested in her dinner (we were both crying at her), so she thought to be on the safe side, she would feed us.  I scarfed down my supper, then I ate Gracie’s because she was being fussy.  When Grandma and Grandpa got home, my mom found out that we had already been fed…so, I actually got 3 dinners.  I wish there would be more miscommunication in my family

EIGHT IS GREAT!!!

OK, so, I know my actual ampuversary isn’t until tomorrow, but my mom is ultra lame and has school then work, so she will be gone all day *sigh…*. Anyhoo, she spent all afternoon taking videos of me and putting together music for my FIRST OFFICIAL MOVIE!!! I’m a star. The first clip is from Christmas (finally found the video camera…it was a Christmas gift that had been misplaced since,well, Christmas…) but the others were all taken this afternoon. No, I’m not performing for the camera, I’m always this jumpy. I just really like being a Tripawd!!! The video is long, but if you have the time please watch me…I jump up a really high wall! Plus, my theme song is playing. Hmmmmm, maybe my mom should go into video editing??

Puppy Pics!

Cemil started it, and we’re adding to the cuteness. My mom has more pictures of me somewhere (probably in storage back in MI…totally lame, right?), but she stole these from RedHair mommy when we went to visit last May, a week before my diagnosis. She does not remember how old I am in these pictures, but she guesses about 5 or 6 months old. I still have my toys I came home to intact, so I must have been brand new to them

Here I am on my blanket I stole from BlondeMommy being bothered while I was chewing on my birdhouse.  Next to me is the bear I used to like to hump.  You will notice in the lower right there is a light blue blanket.  This is the one the sisters picked me up at the shelter with and I snuggled in it the whole way home.  I still have it

This is me with my first brother, Kitty.  Kitty was owned by a roommate of ours, and we got along pretty great together!  Please notice, I am the same size as Kitty.  I was much smaller then, than I am now (don’t I look weird with 2 front legs?!?!?!?!)

Here I am hanging out with Kitty in the living room.  Hmmmmm….maybe I am smaller than Kitty!

You can’t see my face in this photo, but my mom likes it because it shows how I used to make my ears stick up.  Sometimes, I would stick both of them up so high that they would cross over eachother on top of my head!!  Also, I am laying on something pink.  It was evident that I loved pink things even from a very young age

This is mommy’s favorite picture of me, because it shows my adorable little puppy face, and how much I love snuggling (with hump bear again!) and chewing (I don’t really like rawhide, but I LOOOOOOOVE the minty bones!  Still love ‘em, in fact)

Here is a picture of my baby brother, Colby.  I tought him to do his ears like that.  His mom is a sheltie, and his dad is a german shepherd.  He’s pretty adorable, but I haven’t seen him in 3 months.  We miss him but he is having a super time in MI with daddy.

This is the doggie I live with now.  She belongs to Grandma Pam and Grandpa Jim.  She is a tiny havanese named Gracie.  She is 4, but she is only 6 pounds!  My mom took her into Seattle one day, and this is them on the bus!  Gracie gets to wear cute clothes, and I’m jealous because they don’t make cute things in my size

Thats it for now!  If Laura ever finds my other pictures, I’ll make her share those with you, too.  Have a wonderful rest of your day, fellow tripawds and friends!

Captain Jack

SEVEN MONTHS YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!

I hear today is a pretty darn special day. Why? Because 7 months ago today, I was in surgery getting my bad leg taken away for good. I never did like that leg. But today is also EXTRA darn special, because exactly 1 year ago today, my mommy and daddy brought home my little brother, Stephen Colbert. I haven’t seen him in 3 months since Mommy and I trekked out to WA, but daddy sends us picture updates. Here is one we got last week-ish.  We are unsure why, but it seems that Colby felt the need to empty his entire toy box.  Maybe he likes options??

This is pretty funny, because the very next day, mommy took this one of me…

Is this a coincidence?  Telepathy?  We may never know…

Thanks for celebrating with me, and I wish you all the happiest of days!!!

My Christmas in Pictures

So I had a pretty good Christmas! Usually mommy leaves me for a week and I get to stay at a kennel or with my daddy in MI, but this was our first Christmas EVER that I got to stay with blonde one!!! Grammy got the Christmas toys out, so whenever anyone comes home, I greet them at the door with Santa in my mouth:

On Christmas Eve, Grandma Pam gave all the humans matching pajamas.  Boy did they look silly!  It made me glad that I am a dog and did not have to partake in this display of Christmas cheer.  Here is mommy (center) along with Grandma Pam and Grandpa Jim in front of the tree that these crazy people dragged into the house and decorated with weird animals and snowmen and stuff.  You can also see my aunt Gracie trying to get into the shot.

The next day, we all went out to this HUGE dog park where I was able to run around without my leash on.  There were tons and tons of other doggies there and I had an absolute blast just being a normal dog.  Grandma Pam made a rule that everyone had to wear their pajamas ALL DAY on Christmas, so of course this meant the dog park.  I can’t believe I went out into public with these people.  Jim got Pam a video camera for Christmas, so here he is trying to figure out how to use it.  Gracie and I were trying to help.

There were tons of bushes for me to play in, and lots of areas to go down into the water.  I’m not to the point yet where I’ll jump in, but I sure enjoyed running along the shore!

The park also had little bridges so we didn’t have to step in muddy or watery areas, and I thought that was pretty nice of them to add those.  We all stopped by this one so Pam could take a picture.  The name of the bridge is hard to read, but it was called “Dog Leg Bridge”.  Apparently this is funny or something.  Here I am with mommy:

Gracie and I got marrow bones for Christmas and we both cleaned ours out completely!  It was my favorite Christmas I’ve ever had.  When Grandpa Jim figures out how to get video off the new camera, maybe I’ll get mom to post some shots of me playing.  Hope everyone had a great holiday!!!

The Blonde One Will Soon be Busy…

So, on Tuesday my mommy told me a secret: She is registered to begin classes to get her Occupational Associate’s Degree in Veterinary Technology! In 30 weeks she can start working as a Vet Assistant and then will start another 36 week course for the Technician part (granted she gets accepted, but she’s awesome so I have complete faith in her). Since our last 6 months have been spent in Oncology centers and researching cancer, it was just a natural progression for her to get licensed to help other doggies like me, and offer first-hand support to pawrents who are distraught over the diagnosis. She would like to work in a Specialty center in the Oncology department. Although she will be very busy, I’m glad she will be able to help those who feel like this is the end (spoiler alert: it isn’t)!!!

And for those of you who have been denied my cuteness for a while, here is a picture of me in my new rain jacket!

Visit from Envirodog

Since we are environment-conscious out here in the Northwest, my mom decided to take me on an outing to learn about the local foliage and animal life.  We went to something called “wetlands”, although they were more like the frozen lands in my opinion. We had to run some errands first, and I didn’t know where we were going so I started shaking…like, a lot. This of course freaked my human out, but she decided not to worry about it and of course I stopped being all weird. On our way to the car, we saw that the fountain in front of our building was frozen and that it had this amazing ice pattern in it:

When we got to the park, everything was frozen, and I got to spend forever smelling the icy leaves!!!  You’d think I’d never seen a dang leaf before I was so excited.

We walked up and down the boardwalks, but when we would get to the final deck, they had this funny little grate covering the ground!  Boy oh boy, did I HATE that thing!  It hurted my feets.  My mom tried lifting me by my handy little handle so so much pressure wasn’t on my feet, but by that time I had already figured out that ground was evil and refused to go any further.  This was our compromise:

We had a really fun time, and I cried “hello!” at my fellow dogs who we saw walking around.  What lucky puppies we were to get to go there!  Here I am posing for my mommy.  Human says I am very handsome

I learned a lot about how nature smells, about the different trees and bushes that are perfect for me to play under, and all about the birds that love living in the foliage and especially love getting chased out by a hyper envirodog (hey!  I was just excited about learning, OK?!?).  I can’t wait until our next lesson!!!!!

I Make My Mommy Cry

My mom’s eyes have been pretty wet lately. For some reason, she seems to cry a lot when she’s around me. She goes to bed rubbing her eyes, and often times wakes up in the middle of the night and needs to use nose spray. I don’t know what her problem is. She takes these white tablets that look kind of like the yummy things I get with butter in the mornings and evening, and she seems better after she takes those. The other night, she was itching her eyes so much and was so busy dropping liquid into them that she went to bed really early so she didn’t have to itch anymore. I don’t know what her problem is. She tells me that the next dog she gets will be hypo-allergenic (whatever that is) and she threatens to shave my fur off. She’s crazy. My fur is part of my charm. She also tells me that no matter how miserable she feels sometimes (with all the itching and congestion), I am worth every minute of pain she has to endure. I would have to agree with her…I’m pretty frickin adorable.

lame

My tummy is growling because my mom only fed me one dinner this evening. What was she thinking????? I was cute today and even chased leaves outside, so I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get at least an appetizer or dessert with my supper. Tomorrow I shall teach that female human a lesson…