A Night on the BED!!

Wow!! This week has been crazy. My human pack is dividing up and there have been boxes and moving trucks. It has been very stressful. I've lost more fur than I usually do, because usually boxes mean I get a new house and it's very diffiicult. Mom says my roommate is leaving too, and that makes me sad. I ate grass all day and puked, which is what I do because I can't smoke cigarettes, mostly because mom says it's bad for me and a little bit because I don't have thumbs.

But last night I did something great!! I climbed the stairs to the bedroom without help!! I used all four paws instead of bouncing leapfrog style. When I got to the top I circled around to make sure mom saw it-- that I climbed and that I used all my paws (she prefers it this way.) Then she helped me jump on the bed, and I was so excited I jumped on her head three times and licked her. I haven't done that since I was a little puppy. I"m usually much more sophisticated, but really, I was on the bed, and I used all my legs, and the fan was on in the window. It was just like old times-- the good days before the surgery, and I worked really hard to get up there, and I was so happy mom said it was OK to be on the people bed again. I mean, wow! I did it. By myself. I am such a rockstar!! I barely limped today, but mom said my legs spasmed last night after the jump, so I still have to take it easy. I go to my surgeon doctor in two weeks. I hope he says I can go out on a leash again. Mom says we'll go swimming most likely, and I'm a little hesitant, but I think for short trips, if there aren't any rough dogs in the water, that maybe, well, it might b OK. Wish me luck!

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Mom said watch out for bad manners. I've been so bad at writing lately that I nearly forgot!! Thank you Aunt Melanie and Mrs. Dusseau for helping with my recovery. High paws to Gracie Butterball and Lulu. (Oh, and Gracie? mom says to tell you to only eat what Aunt Melanie puts in your bowl!! I know the humans have silly rules, but really, this one kind of makes sense, and it's so much easier just to do what they ask. More treats that way.) Also, thank you to Sandy Fontana and mom says to say congratulations on the new publication and high energy back to you, too, whatever that means. High paws and puppy tails. --Kayla

OY! What a summer!

Sorry I haven't written in so long.

I've been having a rough time. Mom says this surgery isn't going as well as the last one. I don't care what she says, though, I'm running and jumping whenever I get a chance, I just only don't step so much on my other leg. A while ago-- maybe a few weeks after surgery, when I was coming in from sitting outside for the sunset, I fell on the concrete steps, but I was a smart dog and I didn't put my legs down. I know how mom worries about my legs, so I just rolled to my side a little and landed on the cement step with my ribs. OUCH!! Well, anyway, I keep telling mom I'm fine and let's go for a walk and let's go swimming and let's go find Shinta and play in the woods, but she says I'm walking funny, which means we go back to the doctor and look. This time we went to the doctor who lives close by mom. She's our new doctor and mom says she's the best regular vet we've ever had. They let me go in a room with soft carpet and nice dog beds and play nice music if I want to relax. That way I don't slip on slippery floors and nobody puts me up on a metal table or makes the table move up and down on a switch or anythng. Mom says if the vets we went to last year had been helpful at all or even listened to me, then I might not be in such bad shape now. I'm glad mom isn't mad when we leave the doctor now. And the doctor even gets on the floor to rub my belly when I visit and calls mom to check on me!! Her name is Dr. Wells at Washtenaw Animal Hospital, and if any dogs in Ann Arbor are looking for a good doctor, she is very nice and she listens to dog moms, which not all vets do. If you are in Muskegon, however, mom can't recommend any-- best to go to Dr. Prelsnik in Grand Haven, because we couldn't find ANY vets who would look at my legs, and then they broke.

Anyway, the X-rays Dr. Wells took looked fine, but she agreed I'm not healing properly. I need to go back to Michigan State. My surgeon will be back from vacation in July, and mom hopes in the meantime that I'm just taking a longer time on this surgery. They don't know what's wrong, except I keep getting in trouble for being too active. They think maybe it's my back from that fall, so they put me on new medicine that makes my back feel warm and soft, and it makes me a little drowsy. Mom says that's a good thing, but I don't like it because I don't want to play as much. I don't think mom understands how hard it is to sit still when it's summer and I've been being so very patient for six months. Kaajal, my roommate goes on walks, and yesterday, because Kaajal's mom is on vacation, my mom walked her and not me, and I was really MAD.

This morning I woke up late and hadn't had my medicine, so I did rolls all over the carpet on my back and tried to eat my tail. I haven't done that since I was a very small puppy, and I forgot how much fun it is. I must have been feeling pretty good, and mom laughed and didn't yell at me for playing!! It was a good morning. Now I've had my medicine and it's time for a nap. Mom says if I sit very still and follow my rules then we can go swimming in a few weeks. I just want to know how long that is. Human weeks seem very long!