Month: June 2013

ok.. I will try updated this post with the links form my facebook page.  Apparently everyone is supposed to see them now.. even if you don’t have facebook.   The error that I was getting said this when I was trying to add media

 

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Everyday is a new day with a puppy at home…   6am risings, 7am feedings, naps in between hard play time..  noon and 5pm feeds, pees and poops and lots of treats and “good boys”

Wilson can now sit on command..  and now we are working on “lay down”  he is also a good boy for sitting when he comes in when his paws are wet!  Such a proud momma here!

Big Sister Maggie is getting along so well with him, she has been playing, walking with him and tonight was cleaning his face.  Her attitude and caring just amazes me sometimes.  she has completely turned around from the snarl, snip and growl when he first came.

I’m trying to load up pictures but I am getting errors..   so I linked my facebook page pictures.. I hope it works.. if not.. let me know so I can figure out what is going on.. lol

Here is a picture  of the two of them together…  He looks so BIG in the photo!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963086535344&l=04e5b34be2

Here is something funny though… right on the white stripe of Wilson’s brow, he has a brown spot right beside his left eye….

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963113265344&l=392643a685

Check out Ms. Maggie.  she has the same spot, but in black, right beside her left eye!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963121295344&l=a05a42cfc8

Coincidence?  or Fate?

Bark ‘atcha later

ok.. I will try updated this post with the lniks form my facebook page.  Apparently everyone is supposed to see them now..

 

Everyday is a new day with a puppy at home…   6am risings, 7am feedings, naps in between hard play time..  noon and 5pm feeds, pees and poops and lots of treats and “good boys”

Wilson can now sit on command..  and now we are working on “lay down”  he is also a good boy for sitting when he comes in when his paws are wet!  Such a proud momma here!

Big Sister Maggie is getting along so well with him, she has been playing, walking with him and tonight was cleaning his face.  Her attitude and caring just amazes me sometimes.  she has completely turned around from the snarl, snip and growl when he first came.

I’m trying to load up pictures but I am getting errors..   so I linked my facebook page pictures.. I hope it works.. if not.. let me know so I can figure out what is going on.. lol

Here is a picture  of the two of them together…  He looks so BIG in the photo!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963086535344&l=04e5b34be2

Here is something funny though… right on the white stripe of Wilson’s brow, he has a brown spot right beside his left eye….

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963113265344&l=392643a685

Check out Ms. Maggie.  she has the same spot, but in black, right beside her left eye!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152963121295344&l=a05a42cfc8

Coincidence?  or Fate?

Bark ‘atcha later

 

 

Hey there gang… just thought I would share a moment with you…

I belong to this group called English Springer Spaniel Lovers on Facebook..  and it is full of ESS owners from all over the world, USA, Canada, Europe, and even Thialand and Australia..

It is such a great happy site that shares so many pictures of puppies and beautiful dogs all around the world.  It also chats about different things, like crat training, how many ESS’s you have, illnesses, traits, corrective behaviour, etc.

Well.. the other day I came across this picture of Melvin, he is a springer who lives in Sweden!!

I’m trying to post his picture, but it won’t let me here.. so I hope you can see it on my Facebook link here..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=594908193874481&set=gm.10151418611176266&type=1&theater

looks a little familiar.. lol

 

 

 

Not sure.. but there are moments where Maggie doesn’t mind the little gaffer…

like one of these..  but maybe she is just too dang dawg-tired to care… lol

5 days ago.. my life changed… again! So many smiles, so many tears, so many more snuggles and puppy kisses!!! I have got to be crazy.. I forgot what it was like to have a puppy in the house!! Maybe I should have waited and seen if there was a rescue Springer to pop up! Nah.. puppy for now.. rescue spring will happen in a year or so.. which means.. I will have 3 dogs at one time!! yikes!!

Thursday morning we rose very early to make the 2 hour drive to Sarnia to pick up our new addition to the family. We got there about 8:15am and it was a rainy day! After he got his first set of booster shots, and his deworming, money was exchanged, pictures were given to us from when he was a day old and we walked out to the car with big grins on our faces!

We stopped at a service center so that we could get a coffee on the way home and to let him out on his harness and leash to see if he needed a pee. Well.. it was the first time he saw grass.. and wet grass to boot! He just sprawled out in it not moving.. then started licking it!! After a while, he did realize it was ok to walk on and we walked around for a bit.. and he did pee!! Good little guy!!

We introduced him to Maggie at home in the kitchen then proceeded outside to the backyard. After a few looks from Maggie as if to say.. “WTF???” we got him to do his business outside in the backyard. We have had a few snarls, growls, yips and snaps from Maggie to the little guy,. But she is telling him the laws and who is boss. She doesn’t like when he gets tooo hyper and starts getting snippy. She sets him straight there. Sometimes she lets him lay beside her.. sometimes she doesn’t lol. She doesn’t mind when he is beside her when we go for a walk, or when they are walking around the backyard.. She has even laid on the deck and let him play with her orange hockey ball! Mind you.. I could hear her screaming at him to leave it alone!!

Overall.. it will take a little bit for her to adjust to him and him to her.. he will learn her laws… eventually.

Crate at night time has worked out very good.. he wakes up through the night once.. goes outside to do his business then goes right back to sleep again Thursday he woke up at 3:40am then went back to bed till 7am, Friday was 5:00 am and back till 8am and Saturday was in bed at 11:30pm and slept till 6:45am straight through!! And NO messes in his crate!! He is such a good boy…

Saturday was the one month anniversary for my sweet Franklin ♥♥♥♥ and to celebrate and toast Frankie, we played with Franklin’s squeaky hotdog with the new pup. Not the original hot dog, as that one is with Franklin on the dresser! But, Franklin loved those squeaky toys and yes, we did have more than one!! I know Franklin was grinning seeing how much this guy LOVES squeaky toys too!!!

We decided on his name by Saturday.  We played with a few names.. Winston being one, Wendall, Jasper, Jackson, and Ripley being the others. But…he responded best to one in particular.

So.. without further adieu… I introduce to you… Mr. Wilson!!!!

We decided on Saturday that his name was Wilson as this is what he responded to best!

Puppy Porn

He loves squeaky toys

And sometimes, like I said, sometimes, Maggie will let him touch her…  he is actually lying on her back legs here.. lol

 

Bark Atcha Later!

I’m regretting…..  yup…  I know it’s not a good thing.. and it just gets me teary eyed…but I am starting to regret some things..   I think we all go through it when we have lost a tripawd…. it is just so gawd dang hard sometimes.  Every day there seems to be a moment… a wave… I wish I knew how to surf.. it would be much easier!! Lol

Yesterday we went to the pet store where we buy our dog food.  We wanted to check out the puppy food in the brand that we have our Maggie on.  It was the first time that we have been to the store since Franklin left us.  We met the lady there.. who always asked how Franklin was.  Of course, I had to tell her that he was running at the bridge.  This is the kind of pet store where you can take your dogs there when you shop.  They loved Franklin.  My sweetie used to take him there shopping for pig ears.  Ok…..  picture this.. Franklin standing in front of the pig ear box.. on his level..at a WHOLE BOX of pig ears!!!  droooooool    My sweetie would say ok.. and he would pick out pig ears one by one and he would give them to Fred to put in the bag…   lmaoooo.  I regret not getting THAT on video!!

Needless to say.. my hubby broke down in the pet store when he looked at the box of pig ears.  Geesh…Men!!!  At least I waited till I was in the car!!!  lol

I have a whole bunch of “little regrets”…..  like not taking him ice fishing one more time, not taking him for more ice cream cones, not taking him to the dog park more often.  But one of my three biggest regrets are:

I regret my decision of just letting Franklin be a dawg when he was diagnosed in September 2012..  I should have had his leg amputated right then.. but I was so un-educated, unknowing, uncertain.  I kept thinking.. “man.. he’s 14!!” But it does make me wonder if we had done the amputation 4 months earlier, would he have gotten the lung mets?  Would he still be here?

I regret not doing the chemo…   I read so many success stories on this site of puppies and kitties having chemo and going through it with flying colors!  And they are still with their owners being the damn cutest tripawds on the planet!  And that is the coolest thing and it makes me smile!!  Yet,  the other part of me wishes I could be posting those posts and blogs as well…   But then again, there are many of us here who chose not to do the chemo as well.  I just wonder if we had done chemo, would he still be here?

I regret not getting another dog sooner… last year.  It certainly would have helped Maggie get through the loneliness that she is going through.  It will be interesting on Thursday when we get the pup though.. lol  Oh we will be posting some pictures of that.. lol

Thought I would share a few more memorable pics of my Frankie….

Did you know my Franklin was a model?  My girlfriend makes hot/col corn packs.  They have a removable cover and can be used from the freezer or the microwave.   When Franklin tore his knee, she made him one.  He loved it!  I also used it for him when he had his amputation.

Here he is the day we got him from the SPCA on November 20, 2005.  6 years old..

This was his spot at the end of the deck… he was watching the backyard.. making sure those squirrels did not invade and take over the kingdom!

And one of my favs.. of ying and yang… Maggie and Franklin.. always touching butts,  or head to butt, when they were sleeping together.. lol

bark atcha later

My sweet boy is home… I brought him home today.. and I can honestly say that I feel complete again.  Just knowing that he is back in the house with us is a relief… a comfort..  and yet can be so painful sometimes looking at that box….

Yes.. I cried like a baby again when I picked him up… I sat in the car hugging his cedar box to my chest.. loving him up again… talking to him out loud…telling him that I miss him so much.. and I will always love him. 

Yea.. call me crazy dog lady.. I don’t care.. no one understands except you guys and gals here.. and of course other crazy dog lady’s.  lol

But he’s home… where he belongs.  I got his paw print done too.  It turned out very well.. I was very pleased.  I even cried a little harder when I noticed that there was some of his hairs in the clay… That was an extra little bonus I think!!

Funny things have happened over the last week..   My sweetie swears he heard the “thump, thump, thump” of him coming down the ramp in to the bedroom while were were sleeping… He swears he heard it…  and I am positive that he probably did.  It all depends on what you believe in.. and I believe in many things that people close their minds to.  I believe in spirits, ghosts, afterlife, whatever you want to call it.  I’ve had experiences that have confirmed my beliefs.  And that is ok if people don’t believe.  We believe in Rainbow Bridge… so why wouldn’t we believe in other things too?

Needless to say.. I know this guy is here to visit sometimes… yea… call me crazy dog lady… I don’t care.  lol

Thursday night I went to bed after my sweetie and he was just a snoring… lol..   I nudged up to him to get him to roll over and he said, in his sleep, “Hey Mr. Magoo.”  That’s what he called my handsome guy…  It just made me smile and I hoped that my guy was having some great dreams with Mr. Magoo.

Overall.. it’s been a bit of an emotional day, but it has been good for the heart and soul.  The pictures shows My Frank’n’farter’s paw prints that I did the day he ran for the bridge.  I made 3 sets… of all three paws.  Now I am going to draw his picture on them and paint them…

bark atcha later