Maddie got a Get Well card in today's mail from Lucy, her Connecticut cat cousin, who included a note detailing her own medical misadventures of a few years ago. As a postscript, Lucy wrote, "Sometimes when I'm in bad shape I get extra treats! Hope you do too.""It's been a pretty rough day," said Maddie, [...]
Maddie says, "Some days you feel like a flower.""While others, you just feel like fertilizer.""Guess which one today is."Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
I'm spending my day on the couch with Maddie, working from home and watching episodes of The Prisoner while she convalesces. Yesterday's surgery went well. Dr. Kat removed the problematic "Christmas growth" on Maddie's foot, and while she was still under anesthesia, lasered off a number of small growths and warts, cut out and stitched [...]
I've just started sorting through photos from our San Diego X-mas, and will be uploading more shortly, but for now, here's a handful from December 26th at my parents' house, when my old friend Mike the Gorehound came by with his dog, Gonk... Gonk, short for Algonquin, named for Aunt Morgana's poodle in Elvira, Mistress [...]
The last place I expected to end up late Christmas Eve was a 24-hour emergency vet, but sometimes the unexpected happens. The good news is that Maddie is okay. She had a rough day that started with a pronounced limp, which we attributed to her usual arthritis, and included a minor tumble down Jill's carpeted [...]
This is Bailey, who is no more than about ten weeks old...
Jennifer and I had to journey all the way out to Sebastopol this afternoon, so that she could get a permanent filling following a root canal procedure on Monday. While she was otherwise occupied in the dentist chair, I wandered downtown (all three blocks of it) to kill an hour window-shopping. And I had to [...]
I'm working from home today, so around eleven, Maddie and I took a break and wandered over to Our Best Friends. I brought along the camera, so here are a few dog portraits...
Nothing quite like the feeling of having to slay a monster first thing in the morning. "There's a creature in the dining room," called Jennifer. She was about to leave for work, and I was still in bed, ready for another half-hour or so of sleep. "Creature?""In the dining room."Muttering and mumbling, I staggered out [...]
"So, what do you want to do today, Maddie?" I asked while out walking this morning. "Wander downtown, take a drive, or head back to the house and read a book?" In reply, Maddie stomped through a pile of leaves, then came up grinning. "I know," she said. "Let's go to Walnut Park and check [...]