Every single time I retrieve Roxie from being boarded when we go out of town, this is the conversation that occurs: Jim: “So, what kind of LIES did they tell us about her this time?” Me: “They aren’t lies. I’m sure she’s an angel there! Everyone loves her. Anyway, let me read you her Pawgress Report.” Jim: “All lies.” Me: “No! I mean, OBVIOUSLY it’s a business and they want us to bring her back there, so they let us know that she had a great time! But it’s all true.” Jim: “Harumph.” I mean really, doesn’t this look like a dog that had a blast on vacation?
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Down Dog
I’m using the NaBloPoMo “Get Out Of Jail Free” card–basically taking the easy way out and posting a picture–for today because I was at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair from early this morning until this afternoon, and then when I came home we went to see a movie, and now dinner is almost ready (Tonight’s meal plan? “Nacho Night! Nacho Night! Get excited: it’s Nacho Night!”), and then after dinner we’re playing Killer Bunnies (all of us, including D, who is home for Thanksgiving break). So you can see why I’m just asking you to enjoy this picture of Roxie in Down Dog.
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Doggone It!
See this? It’s a little bit of rigged-up fencing to keep Roxie from going upstairs, a little too late. As it turns out, she’s in one of her “moods” today, meaning that for the first two hours (or so) of my work day she was doing everything she could to get my attention. Usually she just sits on the floor in front of me, staring me down. Every now and then while she stares she’ll let a little whisper of a “woof” come out of her mouth. When I am ignoring her especially well she sometimes comes over to me and pushes on me with her paw. When that doesn’t…
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Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a BEE-gle (Part Two, Sort Of)
As it turns out, the title I used for Roxie’s Halloween costume post last year was a great fit this year too, with a minor spelling change. I do realize that it’s two days past Halloween, in case you’re wondering, but it wasn’t until today that I actually had/made the time to take her annual Halloween portraits. Better two days late than never, I always say. Plus? We weren’t thrilled with the costume this year. (By “we”, I mean “we”. Seriously. She and I both had issues with it.) She has put on a couple of pounds (literally, like two or three pounds) and is on the borderline between a…
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Super Sad And Slightly Sedated
Roxie had a surgical procedure yesterday, to remove four lumps that we discovered hovering under her skin on her sides and neck over the past eighteen months. We knew from experience that this happens to beagles: our other dog, the late great Bijoux, was lumpy, too. I waited until the last possible moment to drop Roxie off in the morning because she’s extremely vocal. I remembered that the last time I had to drop her off, for a teeth cleaning, they had to sedate her immediately because she was riling up all of the other patients that were waiting for surgeries. Yesterday was no different. She started barking and howling…