Posted in Work on Apr 30th, 2013
If I don’t recommend vaccinating for everything possible in dogs, what do I think you should vaccinate for? Here’s a look at the common vaccines. Distemper combination This goes by lots of names – DAPP, DHLPP, 5-way, etc. D = Distemper – Distemper causes respiratory and neurologic signs in dogs of all ages. It is [...]
More thoughts after reading Pukka’s Promise. The author recommends limited vaccinations. Vaccines are something that I spend a lot of time thinking about. First, some background. For the first 14 years I was in practice I was mainly a relief vet. That means I went into a lot of practices when vets need time off. [...]
Posted in Pets on Apr 2nd, 2013
Ever since I met the husband six years ago we have been looking for a couch. He wanted a sectional like his neighbor had. Of course that couch came from a store that didn’t exist any more. So for the past six years we’ve been testing sectionals. He wanted leather. I wanted comfy. I can [...]
Posted in Pets on Oct 31st, 2012
With all this talk about Hurricane Sandy let’s not ignore the littlest victims. Tuesday morning I knew we were going to have a problem. I came home from the gym and was face to face with happy wiggly doggy. Freckles – It’s dog park day. Me – It’s raining. It isn’t raining at the dog [...]
Posted in Pets on Aug 7th, 2012
Yesterday I had the day off even though it wasn’t my normal day off. I got up and wandered with Freckles out to the kitchen. I was mentally running through a list of what I had to do to try to put them in order. Freckles headed towards the back door. I muttered, “You go [...]
Z is not an animal person. She claims to love them in the abstract but we’ve only recently stopped her from screaming whenever a pet touched her. Since she’s been staying with us this month she’s seemed to bond a bit more with Freckles. She goes and hugs her. Freckles sleeps on her bed when [...]
I’ve been taking an online Chinese food therapy course. I’m most of the way through the lectures so I decided to start making some of the foods and testing them out on my pets. First up – asparagus: I kept hearing over and over in lectures that cats love asparagus. That seems odd. But last [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 22nd, 2012
My peoples are getting married! Or I’m getting married. I’m not clear on the details… Sitting on rocks is fun but the camera lady kept saying, “Freckles look over there” and so I’d look where she was pointing and then she’d act all surprised. Like I can’t understand English or something. My daddy took off [...]
I went and did my workout at 6:15 this morning. The timed part consisted of 5 repeats as fast as possible of a 400 meter run followed by 15 squats while holding weight over your head. I was doing 15 lbs. I staggered back into the house and Freckles greeted me at the top of [...]
I had my first WOD today. That’s CrossFit talk for Workout of the Day. That means that I had my training wheels taken off. I was no longer in the beginner classes. They threw me in with the big guys. Scary. It doesn’t help when all the very friendly people in the class come up [...]
Posted in Pets on May 28th, 2012
Under-the-Bed-Dog is back. She is Z’s mom’s dog. They are on vacation and we take the dog. You might question why the SO is willing to babysit for his ex-wife but he explains that he feels sorry for anyone who “has to live with that &^&(*_” and wants the dog to have a break. The [...]
Freckles doesn’t like to make friends at the dog park but this Irish Wolfhound wanted to be her friend today. He kept bounding up to her and standing on his hind legs to wave his front legs at her. I’m sure that was intimidating to her.
Posted in Pets on Apr 26th, 2012
I don’t think the rodents around my house have had any predators for a while. The other day Riley showed up with the body of the biggest, furriest mouse I’ve ever seen. Mice don’t get that big if they have to run for their lives instead of shoveling food into their mouths nonstop. We’d been [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 28th, 2012
One night I noticed Powder standing on her hind legs trying to look in the garbage. That was weird. That cat doesn’t normally acknowledge lowly things like garbage. All during the night Freckles was restless. She was up and down off the bed. I got up and let her out in the middle of the [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 10th, 2012
Freckles has many fine qualities but being observant isn’t one of them. If you want to rob my house come on over. Try not to wake her up. We’d hate to have her beauty rest disturbed. We hired a yard service to clean up the back yard. This house was owned by a woman who [...]
Freckles and I went on a pack walk today. I found this group on Meetup.com. They meet at local parks and go for walks with their dogs. For some reason there was this weird statue. There ended up being about 18 dogs. There were two beagles. You always knew where they were. It is like [...]
Posted in Pets on Jan 13th, 2012
Poor Freckles. Her life is in disarray. Thursday: 1. I knew something was up even though nothing was moved yet. My peoples are sneaky. 2. Mommy took the kitties out in boxes. The kitties don’t go out to the car EVER. 3. Attempts to throw myself on the boxes to free the kitties were thwarted. [...]
Posted in General on Jan 2nd, 2012
Look at that very worried face! The SO and I were packing up the cars to leave my parents’ house. Freckles is just convinced we are going to forget to take her home with us. As soon as the first suitcase is picked up she is circling the car. I opened the door and she [...]
Posted in Pets on Dec 16th, 2011
When I woke up this morning, I couldn’t move. Freckles’ butt was against my right neck and shoulder. Riley was against my left neck and shoulder. Powder was laying up against the top of my head. No one would move. I had to sit straight up to hit the snooze. Then I had to lay [...]
Posted in Pets on Dec 13th, 2011
My dog speaks perfect English. I knew that she understood what we say but today she did some mental calculations that sort of freaked me out. She went to work with me on Friday. At lunch we went to a park for a walk. It wasn’t her P-A-R-K where she can run off lead and [...]
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