Halloween!

Tonight, Dos will be helping me pass out candy to the neighborhood kids. She will be in costume.

Considering how much Dos LOVES kids, I'm very excited for tonight!

Pics up asap!

Videos! Sniffing and the Pigwalrus Wiggle.

I want to apologize for the lack of updates recently-our oldest and first baby and Dos' best buddy Francis fell ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and we have been tending to him. It's been a very stressful situation. Dos has been sniffing at him but not bothering him too much. I think she knows.

Anyway, here are a couple of Dos videos, the most important being the Pigwalrus Wiggle, which is is what she does when she doesn't want to do something like go in her crate or go in the house..

She uses that cute factor for sure!

Dos Updates!

Ya'll will get your Dos fix tonight! Computer is back up and running!:-D

Day 73!

Took Princess Dos Mabel Ploppers to Summermoon Coffee Shop today with my friend who just came to town.


She looked like she had been there forever, and once we got to the patio waddled right to their dog water bowl, slurped a big drink, and placed herself underneath the table where we were sitting.

She watched people walk by, she sniffed the air at dogs and their people jogging past, and she wagged her tail when people came near her. She was a happy, happy pigwalrus today.


It's a big step in her emotional recovery to be around people, and a great sign that she's started to thrive.

Day 72-Dos meets a rescue puppy

Today Dos met a little rescue puppy, who had a broken femur and hip and was skin-and-bones starving. Although he is broken, he is still a puppy and tries very hard to get around and climb into people laps. I thought she would be a bit frightened by this-but she sat down next to him when he finally managed to get his awkward little body into my lap, and put her head on my knee and sniffed into his ears, sniffed his neck, sniffed all over him and finally just put her head back on my knee and just looked at him. It was as if she was checking him out to see what was wrong with him, and then telling him everything was going to be alright.

It was a very Mother Dos thing I witnesses, and I wish I would have been able to capture it on video.

Someone was definitely cutting onions there...

Day 71-Dos' trip to Strange Brew.

I've been trying to give Dos as many relaxed outings as possible before her heartworm treatments, as she won't be able to do much of anything while she is undergoing treatments, and -i like to keep this in the back of my mind- in case something happens to her, I want her to have had the best possible life, seeing new things, and meeting new people who pet her.

I took Dos to Strange Brew tonight, and she did just that. She met lots of people, all of who she was very happy to be pet by. I went with my friend Katie, and we sat at a corner table with Dos hanging out underneath. She was content to lay at my feet-and content in general for the most part, until I went inside to get coffee, and Katie held her leash. She struggled to follow me, and when I returned to her, she acted like she does when I've been at work all day.

(As cute as it is, I do want to work on her separation anxiety)

When we got home, Dos immediately fell asleep on her couch spot. I could tell she was very happy to have been out with me, and little tuckered out girl fell right asleep.

Day 70-Dos goes to the pet food store..

Today I took Dos on a field trip to get dog treats/chewies/ dog soap, and vaccinations for a friend's dog.

We ventured off to Callahan's General Store-where there would be a plethera of things for Dos to smell and look at.  Unfortunately, I didn't know Callahan's wasn't open on Sundays, so we opted to head down to Tomlinson's, a petfeed store.

We got there a bit before they opened, so we sat out front and  Dos watched a Shar-Pei puppy play with his puppy mom in the grass.

Once inside, Dos' nose went into hyperdrive. She REALLY liked the smell of cat food. REALLY REALLY liked it. She even whined a little when I managed to finally pry her away from the aisle-but not to worry, there was not only an entire aisle of dog food for her to smell, but a row of dog treats, right at Dos' eye level.

Two children who were walking next to their parents stopped to stare at Dos as she went full-on pigwalrus mode and dove into the boxes of pumpkin treats, snorting and grunting as she chomped away. It took me a moment to dig the front half of her body out of the box, as she buried her front paws in there when she shoved her face in. I took off the top layer of drooled-on treats and put them into a bag.  You drool on it, you buy it. The sales lady said that's the most common thing for dogs to do in the store. Their marketing tactic is brilliant.

Dos seemed content with her pumpkin-treat filled belly, and was perfectly behaved as I loaded what we needed into the cart...until the bully sticks. I've never seen Dos have much balance, or speed, but quickly and gracefully, she removed two bullysticks from the box and dropped to the floor to hover over them lovingly.

This, the sales associate said, was the second most common occurrence at the store.

So, we left, with what we came for-and $30 in excess treats. The phrase 'kid in a candy store' holds no candle to Dos in an aisle of edibles.