A bulleted post which gets you up to date.
- My dad got pneumonia soon after returning from Florida. We canceled my Grandma’s trip that was scheduled Memorial Day weekend because he was being treated for the flu and didn’t find out that it wasn’t the flu (or swine flu, and thus not contagious) until later. Wouldn’t have made for the best trip anyway. Including the call to cancel the ticket (and thus retain some credit), three calls have been made to Delta. Sunday, after hours trying to find the most convenient schedule for the least amount of money (Delta’s change fee is $150), I finally got her new ticket issued. He feels much better now and was back to work last week!
- Casey’s dad visited for Memorial Day weekend. It was his first time seeing Brady and I’m pretty sure he’s smitten! It was a quick trip for him but we had a very relaxing time while he was here and for the most part just stayed at home and had a lot of BBQ for our meals.
- The 26th was our anniversary – 8 years, 2 dogs, and a baby!
- The dogs are still fighting. In the last two weeks Stoli’s been to the vet once and Dude twice from fight related injuries. Stoli’s ears have had a lot of gunk in them for about a month now. I’ve been cleaning them and got the gunk cleared/dried up only to have it come back again. Apparently she had a pretty bad ear infection which we think has resulted in some hearing loss. The vet put her on antibiotics and two different ear washes to hopefully clear up the problem. That part wasn’t related to the fight but she also had to have a blood pustule in her ear drained because that’s where Dude attacks first. Her ears are just a mess and full of scar tissue. Dude was seen because Stoli bites Dude’s tail when they fight and a couple of weeks ago she bit his tail and it left a hole which got infected. The vet ran a blood culture and apparently it turned into a pretty nasty staph infection but with anti-inflamatories and antibiotics things are looking pretty good. The hair growing back on his tail is the least of our worries. We’re really praying that the infection hasn’t reached the bone and things stay looking good because a tail amputation was mentioned as a worst case scenario.
- Brady’s been working on sitting up by herself. She can do it for a few seconds unsupported but she leans quite a bit when she does it. Hopefully we can work with her on this and she’ll be doing it by herself in no time! Off to tummy time…
Is the fighting new? Around 2yrs old is when Lola became a fighter, b/f that she didn’t fight with anyone… luckily it’s just ears and tails, (although not saying that’s good), and not throats, etc. What are they fighting about?
Oh they go for the throat too. It’s a miracle they haven’t severed anything yet. The fighting started when I was pregnant with Brady so I guess it’s been going on for close to a year now, just getting progressively worse. We think they’re fighting over dominance of the house. But it just varies on what gets them started. Dude can’t stand it when Brady cries so he will hunt down Stoli even if she’s in a different part of the house and attack her because somehow he thinks Stoli is making Brady cry. Then if Stoli gets too much attention she gets all hopped up on it and will attack Dude. Dude instigates the majority of the fights though.