HAPPY EARTH DAY AND HAPPY BELATED BLOGGERVERSARY TO ME!

It's Earth Day!

What are you doing for Earth Day?

Momma is going to do some recycling today. Us doggies are going to recycle some water ( aka pee on some earth ) when Momma takes us for a walk later. LOL


And we have been so busy we even missed our own bloggerversary which was on April 11 th.

Congrats on 2 years of blogging Casper!

Casper Loves Agility

Agility...

It's is a game that'll make you think
Where the wide open spaces call,
It can dirive a (wo)man to drink,
Chasing a little white ball ...

(of Eskie fluff)...

LOL...

My mind is getting hazy
Because it makes no sense at all
My friends all think I'm crazy
(unless they are agility nuts too)
Chasing a little white ball ...

(of Eskie fluff)...

LOL

Say Hi To Our New Foster Doggie- Ditto

This is Ditto, our new foster dog. She is a young German Short Haired Pointer. She is beautiful but also is very shy and scared. Momma is going to work with her so she gains confidence. We will post more on her soon.

PAWS CROSSED FOR GIO

Our pal Gio from Life Is Better With Sheltie Hair is in the hospital. Please visit him and send some DWB healing thoughts and prayers.

We are crossing our paws and sending healing Eskie vibes for him to get well soon!

Sunny Bunny Is Officially Adopted!

Bye bye Sunny Bunny! Have lots of fun in your new "Furever Home" with your new owner and your new doggie brother Ben the friendly rotti and the 2 kitties.

Woofs from Casper and pals

Buddy Gets 2 Q's In Rally-O

Hey it's Buddy here. Momma has been taking me to Rally-O class. It's a really fun type of obedience. I guess she wanted me to be more obedient and also to improve my behavior on the agility course. (Hey, what's wrong with running away and making up your own course at top speed- it get's lots of laughs) he he he



Well I did learn to heel and a bunch of other stuff. Momma and I liked it so we entered a CARO Rally-O trial. Guess what? I got 2 qualifying legs (Q's) toward my Novice Rally title. Here is a picture of me and my ribbons.




So now Momma and I are going to go to another trial in another city in 2 weeks to see if we can get the last Q towards the Rally Novice title.

We might take Casper, but it depends on if Momma practices with him first. He's kinda rusty (ha ha -not in color but in the brain). He hasn't done Rally for a long time. Casper is gonna start coming to Rally classes too.


Oh and I really must thank my Rally-O instructor who is Gio and Romeo's momma at Life is Better With Sheltie Hair . She taught Momma and I lots of stuff!

We are gonna be missing Rally class this weekend as be will be doing agility agility agility! This weekend is the Terry Simon's Agility Seminar

I'll have to report on that on Monday.

Woofs from Buddy

Sunny Is On A Trial Adoption

Sunny (aka Sunny Bunny) is trying out a new adoptive home. She went there 2 nights ago. Sunny says she likes it there. Her new owner will be a young woman who lives with her parents. Sunny also has some new animal siblings- a huge friendly rotti named Ben and also 2 cats. One of the cats even came and gave her a kiss on the nose. The other one is still apparently hiding under the bed. Sunny really seems to like cats.

It sure is alot quieter around here without Sunny. Her motto is play, play play, and run, run, run and then wrestle, wrestle, wrestle and then bitey face, bitey face, bitey face... She even got me (Casper) wrestling again. Now that I've gotten older I usually don't do too much of that anymore. I prefer sofa surfing. LOL

Momma even thinks it's alot quieter too. She says no doggies are knocking over the garbage can or the footstool during our wrestling matches.

Momma will be checking in on Sunny Bunny in the next 2 weeks to see how she is doing in her new home. If all goes well her adoption will be finalized then.

Woofs, Casper

GOOD NEWS!! MY EYE IS GETTING BETTER!

Woofs doggies,

Look I am now free of my cone and free of that eye ointment too! My eye is not totally healed but it is getting better. And yes I did have to go see my favorite VET a few more times but I like them as they give me lots of treats.

Momma still tries to keep me from playing 'bitey face' and wrestling with the other dogs (although sometimes I can sneak in some wrestling when she isn't looking). Also I still can't go to agility because Momma is worried I might get some of the loose black floor surface into my eye.

Oh and guess what? Sunny might be getting adopted soon. :) More about that later.

Woofs from Nikki

Nikki Sees the Doggie Optha-Molly-Just

Hi doggies,

Yes, I'm still wearing this cone.... (sigh)




This week I went to see the Doggie Opth-a-Molly-Just. Only her name wasn't 'Molly', I think it was 'Lynn'. Tell me, does that make her a Doggie Opth-a Lynn-a-Just???
Ha ha ha, I haven't lost my sense of humour....

Boy, did I ever get poked and prodded. First I was seen by the student interns and they did all sorts of tests on me. They looked in my eyes with lights and all sorts of different instruments, they measured my tears, and the pressures in my eyes. Then they dial-ated my eyes with drops and looked in my eyes again.

By this time I was freaking out. Squirmming and jumping back. I wanted out of there. My left eye is sore you know and they were all surrounding me. It was scary!

So they took a break and Momma held me and I started to feel better. After that I was okay and stayed pretty still for the rest of the tests. Of course then the Doggie Opth-a-Molly-Just Resident came in and then they dyed my left eye florescent green to make the eye ulcer show up better. They said the ulcer was even bigger than originally thought. Finally the actual Doggie Opth-a-Molly-Just came in to see us and she looked at my eye too.

The confirmed diagnosis is an indolent corneal ulcer which we already knew. The Optha-Molly-Just did another Striate Keratotomy but this time they were able to do it just with just a local a-nest-he-tic. This Optha-Molly-Just said she has an 80% success rate, so we are hopeful. We have to wait 2 weeks to see if it will heal.

When my regular VET looked at my eye afterwards she said that the Striate Keratotomy that was done was much more extensive than what my VET was able to do. Even Momma could see the grid of scratches on my eyeball! And they couldn't believe that it was done without a general a-nest-he-tic. Yikes! I stayed very still while they used a needle to scratch a grid of lines into my eyeball!

I go every day to the VET so I can get my eye ointment 4 times a day. Momma is making me be very careful. She won't even let me play with the other dogs! I'm kinda sad about that.

Well that's it. I'll keep you updated.

Woofs, Nikki

Photo Tag

We were tagged by Gio and Romeo for Photo Tag. So here is the 5th picture from the 5th folder.



This is a picture I took of Nikki a year or 2 ago when she climbed on the clean warm laundry. This is something she just loves to do.



So now we are going to tag 5 people to show us the 5th picture in their 5th folder.



-Mango the Maltese Kiddo

-Lorenza

-Bae Bae

-Rocky

-Princess Snowball

Have fun with the tag game ;)