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Follow Up Friday: New Year Rant
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that). But today, I am going to rant about the last 6 months, if that is ok with you?
There is so much to follow-up with since I have been back from China in late November. I have kind of lost my posting rhythm that I had for the last 2 years. Life has really been a whirlwind since last summer when I got laid off retired. When I was working full-time I had my days neatly planned and the blogs both were on the publishing schedule as part of my day. DogDaz was a post-a-day with universal animal pictures and a post-a-day with personal zoo stories. My business blog was twice a week. But that has all changed. I am lucky if I can get once a month with my business blog. And DogDaz, well I have been able to keep up the post-a-day pictures, but the personal stuff has been limited mostly to blog hops. I miss the routine and am trying hard to regain it, but sometimes, it just takes time to control chaos. I still reply to every comment that people write me, but it has become incredibly hard to visit all my blog friends like I want to. That makes me frustrated and sad, but I need to focus on different things now (like closing business).
The dogs and I have been through a lot over the last few months. Louise as you might recall was being treated for Perianal Fistula Disease. She was on heavy-duty medication in October and November and appears to have gone into remission (Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah). I took them both for their annual check up 2 weeks ago and everything seemed fine with her. But…. on Monday I noticed a very large bump around Louise’s shoulder. Freaked me out. I am thinking Lyphoma from all the toxins she had from the medicine, or something worse. Rushed her to vet. Dr Kate said it is a Granulomas reaction to all the vaccines she was given a few weeks ago. Oh my! Have any of you had this type of reaction in your dogs? It is hard tissue that forms when the body is trying to reject a foreign substance (like a vaccine). Dr. Kate said warm compress and it will go away in a few weeks. Hope so. It doesn’t seem to bother Lulu, thank goodness. She is only 4, which is to young for all this sicky stuff. Would you discontinue vaccines?
I don’t know if I have blogged about Sofie’s increased obsessive behavior. Barking at every sound, having to gnaw on something constantly (including herself). Dr, Kate says she is a herding bred and needs a job. Great! I need a job too! That doesn’t mean I gnaw on my arm (well maybe). She has been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I guess I have to find a flock of sheep and get her herding. But it is minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit outside so I am not going to be able to sheep herd anytime soon. I am trying to keep her busy (actually both of them) in the house and I bought her a ‘Thunder Shirt’ (she is wearing it in this picture) to try to calm her from the sounds of life and to also make her feel more secure. Has anyone tried a shirt for OCD? When do you put it on? Did it help your dog?My theme for 2014 is ‘Controlling Chaos.’ That seems to be my life right now. Managing the development of my business while maintaining my sanity with my zoo, my family, and my health. My health is stress stress stress, so I really need to change that..Ah, but this is a blog about the animals, not about me, so I will leave complaining for another day.
Lulu is poking me and wants to go out in the freeze. Please take a moment and accept this invitation to a snowball fight!
We are back!
The cats seem to be doing ok right now, thank goodness! Noel started to come out into the living room and interact much more with K8 and V while I was in China. She has continued to do that now that I am home and it is a good thing. I do miss her in my office with me when I am there (like now), but her new place appears to be on the kitchen chair, under the table, where I put a blanket for her before I left to keep her warm. That is her home now and it gives her more ability to watch the world then she used to have.
That is Noel looking up from the kitchen chair (with her blanket) and wedged against the kitchen table. She is just cracking us up these days.
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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Follow Up Friday is part of the blog hop hosted by Heart Like A Dog.
Wordless Wednesday: Come out, come out!
K8 caught this shot of Sofie waiting on the other side of the laundry room cat door. No wonder the cats hide.
(Oh, yes, duct tape is my answer to every thing that needs fixing around the house.)
Happy Wednesday.
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Follow Up Friday: Hopping With No Triskadekaphobia
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
Today is Friday the 13th. It doesn’t bother me, but some people have triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13). Now that is a wild phobia to have. Personally, 13 has always been a good number and day for me.
It is really nice to be back in the States and home with my humans and furries. The dogs and I are back in a regular walking routine, despite Mother Nature trying really hard to force us in side. Snow, slush, sleet, hail, you name it, but mostly really really cold rain.
Working hard to return to a regular daily blog hop routine but that seems to be harder than you think. We started this week with Caturday and featured our Noel waiting for the snow fall. She is such a sweet girl. White on white.
Black and White Sunday was a shadow of Lulu Belle and me walking in the winter sun. Sometimes that is the only way I can get a picture of me and the pups.
Monday Mischief showed the doggies with big fluffy snow flakes, except the flakes seemed to be invisible. The only way you knew that I was telling the truth was by looking at Louise’s black fur. Bark Out Loud (BOL).
We did not know what was in store from the weather until later in the week. Wordless Wednesday caught Sofie from the upstairs window waiting on a newly snowed on deck for Louise to run by. They dogs really like slipping and sliding in the new fallen snow.
That’s all I was able to hop for the week – but of course, everyday there is a DogDaz Zoo pic for you. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out this Friday hop below and you can go play with others.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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Wordless Wednesday: Snow Day
K8 caught a great shot of Sofie in the storm from the upstairs window. It had just started and there were large slushy flakes coming down. The deck bench seems to be Sofie’s new spot to oversee the yard. Can you guess who she is looking at or what she is waiting for?
Happy Wednesday!
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Wordless Wednesday: Bonescope
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Notes from China: Friends @ Sonya’s While Mom’s Away
Sonya sent me an email with pictures and said that Louise and Sofie are doing fine staying in her care and with all their friends.
They seem to be having a relaxing time while I toil away in China working. Ahhh, it is a dog’s life for sure.
They all went on a walk in the woods which must have been fun.
Sonya said that Sofie has been busy each night protecting them from foxes (or possums or raccoons or something — that they can’t see) and from deer.
They have a foster, Dee Dee, in the red harness next to Louise in the bottom picture, that actually whines even more than Sofie!
Dee Dee really likes Sofie, Sonya said. She thinks it’s because Dee Dee used to live with a blonde Cairn terrier that Sonya just placed in a new home a few days after they come in to rescue.
That is Louise in the middle of the dalmatian pack. The back row is Oreo, Millie & Jolene. In front of Jolene is another black dog, Spunky and Sofie is under the chair on the right.
This sure made me smile a million miles away – Thanks Sonya for taking good care of my puppies.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo in China ❤
Dragon’s Loyalty Award
On my way out of the door to China, I received the Dragon’s Loyalty Award from Meekucat! Thank you so much. I have done my best to comply with the rules below. We greatly appreciate the honor.
1. Display the award on your site.
2. Link back to the blog that gave it to you.
Thank you MEEKUCAT!
3. Pass it on to 15 blogs (only 15 – I can’t do it – actually, you know me, I would pass it to all of you, but I picked some of my top commenters (in no particular order) as a thank you for your Loyalty).
This Abundantly Delicious Life
4. Tell people 7 things about you.
(1) Nine is our 9th cat.
(2) When Louise is tired she will go sit outside her kennel until I open the door so that she can go to sleep.
(3) Sofie will sit on the other side of the room from her kennel and will refuse to go to bed, just like any respectible 3 year old.
(4) Noel does not like to poop in the pan (you may not have really wanted to know that – sorry).
Who me?
(5) Stella likes to eat her dinner in the kitten room, even though she is 2 and everyone else eats in the kitchen.
(6) Some animals really leave a hole in your heart and I miss Muffy and Squash almost every day.
Muffin in March 2011
(7) I am going to Shenzhen, China for the next 6 weeks for work (I got laid off in July and started my own company in August and I take work where I can, and this is the first pay engagement). I have set up the blog with special everyday posts because I am not sure if WordPress access will be available where I will be working. I do hope that everyone will keep viewing DogDaz Zoo everyday until I return in mid-December. There are some really special days between now and then. and if you don’t visit, you may miss the fun (and the parties). I ❤ my blog friends.
Squash & Me 2007
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Wordless Wednesday: Closed for the Season
It’s closed, Sofie. No more swimmy.
I don’t understand, Louise.
I still smell water somewhere.
I guess we have to wait until spring.
Happy Wednesday!
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Follow Up Friday: Noel, then Sofie, more Noel, and Leaves
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
I thought I would be gone by now, but, snafus being as they are, I have not been able to get my Chinese Visa because of a ton of different issues, and now it looks like I will be home for another 2 weeks. That gives me 2 more weeks to enjoy the fall, when it stops raining, and to be with my family and furries.
Black and White Sunday was a rerun of my favorite Noel picture. We have these silly cardboard things on the ends of heavy gage wire, that kind of look like bugs. It was just such a perfect moment. Duh?
Noel, the Christmas Cat
Monday Mischief was our last swim in our friend Amy’s pool. And, boy were we lucky we did that because the weather turned to freezing rain and won’t stop. One day summer – next day winter – around here. Sofie is doing fine after her tangle with the rose bush. The tip of her ear is a little ragged, but she will live.
Mom! Louise has all the toys and she isn’t sharing.
I was so consumed with arrangements for the China trip that I forgot to post Tuesday’ s Tails (sorry), but Wordless Wednesday was Noel again, this time hiding behind the cactus in the kitchen window. Since she is the Christmas cat (yes, we adopted her at Christmas time, and she came with the name Noel) – I decided she is a Christmas Catactus. (MOL)
Thankful Thursday brought to mind all the smells and sounds of the fall season. Even though we had torrential rain from the backend of a Hurricane named Karen. Lots of Followers commented how much they love fall too.
Sofie always sticking her nose in everything
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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Follow Up Friday is part of the blog hop hosted by Heart Like A Dog.
