11 posts tagged “dodger”
We've had the Dodger dog for nine months now. Over the last few weeks his cough has been getting pretty bad and once again we were worried about it.
This past Wednesday Aaron took him into the vet to get the pre-approval to get him fixed. The doctor is new to the clinic and was immediately concerned about the dog and his breathing. She kept him there for a few hours, ran some tests and has finally come to the conclusion that Dodger has chronic bronchitis. (As a kid, I had asthma and chronic bronchitis as well, so I know how miserable it must be for the dog. But nobody ever diagnosed it, so it was hard to get anything done to take care of it.)
$600 later and the dog has a bunch of new medications (a few steroids) and cough syrup with Vicodin. He seems to be breathing MUCH easier and coughing MUCH less, and it's only been a few days. I'm feeling very relieved that this is going to be the solution to my dog's problems and he's going to be on the road to being a healthy dog.
Borat's on HBO. Awesome.
Oh, did you think this was going to be a pregnancy blog? hahahahahaha fooled you!
Dodger, with Aaron on Aaron's chair. ==>
Probably one of the cutest pictures on my entire computer.
That face is so him (you know when he isn't chewing shit he shouldn't be, or biting your robe, or licking your feet to death).
This morning for breakfast I had a PB&J sandwich. Being the awesome dog-mom that I am Dodger got a bit of peanut butter for himself.
I put some on his nose, because let's be honest--I may be an awesome dog-mom, but that doesn't mean I'm not above doing something silly on him for a good laugh.
He licked most of the peanut butter off his nose and then rubbed his nose on the kitchen floor--and licked it up. His nose is now peanut butter free and my floor is a little bit cleaner. :)
Is watching Dodger look for his water bowl. But he can't have any water. Because he's getting fixed tomorrow morning and can't have any food or water until tomorrow night. :(
He's looking at me like, "What's going on, Mom? I'm not digging this!"
So sad!
And then I got home. Dodger decided to rip apart some of his pee pads that we keep in his kennel. He decided that even with complete access to the backyard, he needed to poop (twice!) on the carpet surrounding his kennel. I had to laugh because it was pretty funny.
I'm watching tonight's Top Chef finale. Apparently there was an online article that leaked who the winner was. I somehow managed to NOT spoil it and have no idea who won. It is making me hungry though.
Ilan is so hot. I totally hope he wins. And Marcel is a douche. He bugs me.
40 minutes or so until I find out who won!
But thought I should post something since I'm actively avoiding my Behavior scholarly analysis that is due on Tuesday.
Last night we went to dinner for my dad's birthday at Johnny Reb's. For your birthday they make you wear a silly hat, do the chicken dance and kiss the butt of a golden pig for good luck for one year.
I ordered the fried chicken platter which is freakin' awesome. Then for dessert I had the peach cobbler a la mode, while most of the table had pecan pie (which was pretty damn good too). We got Dodger a giant smoked bone for $10 which still remains untouched on the floor of the den. If he weren't so sick, he'd probably have had a good part of it chowed down by now.
Dinner was good and for the first time ever, Tracy's future father-in-law and I agreed on something politically--we'd never vote for Hillary Clinton.
Dodger is still sick. He just freaked me out a few minutes ago with some funky wheezing while he's asleep on my lap here. He's got an appointment with the vet tomorrow night and I ordered a homeopathic remedy online tonight that should be here tomorrow to help out with chest congestion and preventing distemper, which is a fear I have that he will develop on us.
School is still crazy. I have had two glasses of a lovely reisling and now I'm off to write a paper on women who are always single or single again and how life stage models should take these women into consideration and some of the ambivalence these women may feel about being single.
Oh yeah...and the Bears and the Colts are going to the Superbowl in two weeks. It's the first time a black coach has made it into the Superbowl--natch, TWO black coaches are going to the Superbowl. It is a good time to be a sports fan, although I was bummed to see New Orleans fall apart in today's early game.
This whole dog-mom job. It taxes on my spirit way too much. It's exhausting, it's expensive, and my jeans have perma-dog snot stains on them.
We had to take Dodger to the vet. Again. This time the vet decided to draw blood, take x-rays and give him subcutaneous fluids because he's dehydrated. Again.
I was at school all day and Aaron called me to tell me that the dog hadn't eaten all day, had pooped inside the house (twice) which he has never done, and didn't even want to eat a treat. That's when you know its bad.
We got home, I put some canned food in the bowl and he ate a few bites, which is okay with me. He's sitting here, taking shallow breaths, but at least he's sleeping. He pays attention when I leave the room and as soon as I sit down on the couch, it's back on my lap he goes. It's going to make eating and studying very difficult here in a few minutes.
I really do love this dog though. We were talking about what we might have to do if...and I started crying in the lobby at the vet's office. Even Aaron seemed kinda misty eyed when it was hinted about. But hopefully with some TLC, some meds and some good rest he'll be the awesome, chewing, rambunctions puppy dog I know his spirit is.
I had to take back the Coach bag August and Bert got me for Christmas so I could get something I'd use more. I had to go to South Coast Plaza, as it's the only mall on the way home that has a Coach store and a Sephora (so I could use my Sephora gift cards). I walked into the Coach store and at first, I didn't get any service, which I found odd. So I spoke with an employee and he told me I could exchange the bag with whatever in the store. As I was looking around, I had four of the six on the floor employees ask me if they could assist me. I felt so pretentious because I felt like people would see me as one of "those" people who are in a Coach store on a Thursday afternoon around lunch. It's not me at all. You wouldn't have known me if you saw me (although I was my same joking and charming self and made a joke about Coach to which the salesgirl laughed with me--and she meant it. I could tell).
I exchanged the bag with a smaller, cuter one as well as a peace sign cell phone charm (which I would have never paid for out of pocket). I found a cute pair of sunglasses but I refuse to pay over $100 to get shades. Now if other people wanted to *buy* them for me...I'd gladly hand over the rest of my credit ($78) and smile. :)
School still sucks. They are changing my schedule. Again. It will be the third time. This week.
Dog is still cute. Housetraining him is going better, now I just have to train him to sleep on the other two couch coushins, as opposed my lap all the time. :)
Today was the first day back to school. It started nice and early--5:45am. I left my house at 7:05 and arrived 5 minutes late for my first class (joy). Then, I found out my 3pm class was cancelled and had to rearrange my schedule. So now I'm at school on Tuesdays from 8 until 4, Wednesdays from 6 until 9 and Thursdays 11 until 3. My schedule also got immensely harder, since I'm having to take two professors who are very tough graders. But, at least I know I'll learn something this semester, whereas I feel like the fall was just reideration of shit that I learned at Fullerton in my human services classes.
Aaron and I got into kind of a spat today. Nothing huge, just something lame. We had dinner at a local thai place, which was adequate. We had this really freakin' awesome appetizer with ground chicken in these cute little fried flower things (its the best I can do...I'm exhausted). Soup was good and the chicken which was supposed to be spicy was rather bland and disappointing.
Tonight I've been sitting here with the dog in my lap, catching up on my blogs and now I need to read a few articles before getting some sleep.
(thanks Pants Party for the email. I will definately take your advice, especially about the drinking, because that's when he pees in the kitchen. And it's time to move his food and water bowls...thanks again!)
My puppy has a cold. He has been sneezing and snotty ever since we brought him home from the pound on Saturday. Last night I was getting worried so I told Aaron he was going to need to take Dodger to the vet today since I went back to my internship this morning. I ended up taking a long lunch and going to the vet with Aaron. Dodger has kennel cough and needed to get dewormed (I haven't seen anything but the vet did it as a precaution).
This dog already weighs 20 pounds. He's four months old. He's going to be huge!!
Onto something about me. Today was the first day back at my internship. It was fairly mellow, but I ended up getting a parking ticket when I was in San Pedro, by like 5 minutes. Ugh!! I don't have an extra $40 to blow when I've been spending so much money on the dog. And school (you know, $200 on books for one class...awesome). Aaron's busy with his work stuff--he's gone tonight, tomorrow, Wednesday and most of the weekend on training things. Thursday he's going to a Keller Williams show with Josh. It sucks that we've been spending so little time together.
Sigh. I wasn't expecting to go this route.
I'm going to watch the Ohio State/Florida game. Maybe I'll order a pizza for dinner.
I'm in total like with my dog. He's seems to be settling in around here and has had a good full first day with us. He is still trying to get the hang of the whole "don't pee there!" thing, but he's just a baby and with some love and firm training he'll be using the backyard as the bano in no time.
He slept in our room in his kennel last night. He finally pooped, and the smell woke me up at 5 this morning. But lucky for us he hasn't pooped on the floor, so we're happy with that.
He used the dog door in the screen for the first time this evening and I felt like a mom watching her kid take their first step. He got a treat and is napping next to me right now.
Today is my last offical day of vaction and I've spent most of it by have a headache. I wish Aaron and I had spent more time hanging out but for some reason we didn't. He's been in a lot of pain this weekend, so he's been kinda pissy and its getting on my last nerve. I'm not the one causing your pain, don't take it out on me, I don't deserve it.
On a sad note, the placekicker from USC was found dead today in San Pedro. He was only 21. How sad.
