Life with the Two Crazy Dogs

…..sooooooo lazy, watching the precious rain drenching the dried up yard.  (You can hear the “crunching” sound when you walk on the yard.)  I’m still in my jammies.  No walks this morning for me and the boys since it started raining around 5-ish.  Sleeping in didn’t really happen either.  Must be my body telling me I have enough already.

The boys are not bugging me at all this morning.  Cooper and Chase had a busy day following DB out in the  yard the whole afternoon till evening.  They are both wiped still, sleeping and snoring too.  Ranger as usual, if you don’t bother him, he will lay next to me and sleep.  Speaking of Cooper, remember his chewed up paws where we had to put the float like collar on him?  His paw are getting better but that fella licks the crap out of them in the night.  We took the collar off at night coz we felt bad for him.  He was sitting by the door and if not by the door, next to me the whole time even when i was already in bed.  Yeah, I spoil him a lot too. 

So what I did was I wrapped them up, like this.

He was not happy at all, gave us the “killer” look.  The “killer” look is his eyes are just “kuat chee lei”.  When I call him to come, he will give that look, tail wagged a little but refuse to come and curled up telling me “I’m mad at you”.  Just like a kid, merajuk”.

The moment we wrapped up Cooper’s paws, Chase, the licker, licked them.  Followed Cooper wherever Cooper planted his body down.  I was surprised Cooper didn’t growl at him, or nipped him.  KIDS!!!!

Coops has been chewing and licking his right paw til it looks like this (left picture).  The left paw is getting as bad as the right one too (right picture).  No matter how much I kept cleaning his paws after walks and after playing on the yard, he still was licking the small little spots til they became what you are seeing now.  Gross, isn’t it?  Yeah, that’s what I thought. 

Yesterday DB went out to Petco for dog chow and thought he would try a collar for Cooper or at least for Ranger.   Apparently, there are no more “lamp shade” collars sold for pets.  I actually calls them the “Queen Elizabeth collar”.  Instead, they sell this:

 Like a float for swimming.

Oh, I can tell you, Mr. Cooper was not happy at all.  He kept looking at me, tail down and laid down looking at me (til I took the camera out).  Of course when we put the collar on him, he didn’t even budge from where he was laying down.  He finally moved to the patio door when I opened the door for Chase to get out.  Coops got up and before he went out, we took the collar out.  The moment I took it off him, he ran right out the door.  FREEDOM!!!  I might keep the collar for one for more day.  So far, he has not licked the wounds but I was not in the whole day today but DB said he was licking them.  Sigh, I might try it tomorrow and see how it does with it.

Yeeehah, the weekend is here.  I really like Friday and especially on payday Fridays.  Payday Fridays means no boss, hah, no boss to hawk over me.  I do take advantage when the boss is not around.  The big boss is in but he never bothers me. 

Anyhoo, today I went for my First Aid and CPR class.  This class was given free to all employees who wish to learn about First Aid and CPR.  Before I went for this class, I had to take an online class which was 4 hours on the said subject.  After going through the lessons, every participant needs to pass the pre-assessment test at least 80% or higher.  It gives the participants two chances to take the test.  If you didn’t get at least 80% on the first go, you will have the last chance.  I had to take it twice.  I went through my lessons last week and didn’t take the assessment test on Wednesday.  Of course fail lah!!  What I read, heard, saw all forgotten.  Had to go over the lessons again and took the test.  Passed.

The actual CPR class was good.  We used dummies and practice mouth to mouth with a mouth barrier and chest compressions.  The instructor also taught us what needs to be done if there is an actual situation, how to give CPR to an unresponsive and responsive victim, and a choking victim.  We learned the Heimlich maneuverto expel the object from the choking victim.  And of course, some ladies asked what should be done if it was a little kid, a baby.  The maneuvers are certainly differently.  I really hope I don’t have to use it.  It’s a good to know kinda thing and the same goes with CPR. Giving chest compressions (30 compressions for every 2 breaths) is not easy.  Boy, they are tiring.

When I got home, I was late first off, I started playing with the camera again since tomorrow is Photohunt day.  The pictures below were taken with my Canon Powershot using the appeture and shutter speed mode.  I am still learning how to take pictures with the two features.  It seems to take better pictures than in Auto mode.  What you say??  Have a great weekend folks!

~Lilies growing in a container from Simmie~

~Flowers from a hanging basket. Looks like a rose~

~My strawberry plant, looks like I have to wait for another year for it to bear fruits~

~Ranger, the old wise dog~

~Chase, munching on some wood~

~The sorta netless basketball hoop~

~Cooper, sitting really still for me. Good boy~

 

it was a hot one yesterday, at least to me, it is.  Needless to say, the boys don’t get their walks in.  I went outside in the evening to water the plants, I was sweating buckets.  Threw the frisbee for Cooper and Chase and both had their tougues hanging out within seconds.  Today’s temperature will be in the 90’s which means I will get home from work and sit inside til the sun sets.  I’m getting spoiled with the cool/cold weather.  Give me 30’s and 40’s in temperature I will take it.

 What I did yesterday afternoon?  Playing around with the features that came with the camera, Canon Powershot.  Surprised me, this camera does take good pictures.  Here, I took a picture of Cooper, laying on top of the vent with the air conditioning blasting at him.  Yeah, the boys know where to go to cool off.  They three favor that vent the most. 

This three pictures I was playing with the aperture and shutter modes without flash. 

Cooper: Leave me to chill, please!!

Chase, he looks kinda weird here - like in the cartoon.

Chase: Are you done yet??

Remember the puking and craping left by one of these three boys last week?  The culprit left some doo-doo for DB to clean on Saturday early morning, too.

We know who the culprit was, yes, it was Chase aka  Junior.  How we found out was DB was watching him when Junior wanted out.  Junior shot right out for a dump which was the runny ones.   I went on the whole of Friday and Saturday.  Finally, on Sunday it must cleared up and they are now back to normal.

Phew, can’t believe what a pain it was to clean the rugs and shampoo the carpet again.  This time he did it in the dining room on 5 spots.  I had to run to Petco to get a stronger formula poop/odor/stain remover to remove the stain and odor.  Since they were runny ones, i had to totally saturate the spots, let it sit for 30 minutes, blot them out and repeat the process three times.

What the heck did he eat out in the backyard?  I have no idea.  I know he loves to go to the far corner of the backyard because of the deer-scram granules I sprinkled on surrounding the lilies.  I hope it was not the granules that gave him the runnies.

Remember I mentioned earlier Ranger had yeast infection in his ears?  Yeah, the sweet, looking buddy of ours, who has the most patience amongst the three of them, is getting too much attention from us.  DB is still playing vet in our household.

You can see how red his ear is.  I guess the picture is not too good - too much flash which makes it yellow!  DB has to squirt some ear drops in to each ear, but the vet tech forgot to include the squirter with the bottle of ear drops.  So we had to make do with a syringe, of course without the needle.  He has to squirt the drops in every day and I have to clean his ears every week.  DB said he never had to do any of these with his previous dogs.  I told him Ranger is just one of a kind which makes him so special.  His ears are getting better and his itching with the different medication is working quite good, at least it looks tolerable than before.  

Yeah, this guy is just panting away in this hot sticky weather.  We had the air-condition on most of the days and guess where these three boys will be at?  Either on top of the vent or laying against the wall next to the vents.  Why does it have to be so sticky in Minnesota??  And the skeeters are disgusting.

DB and I are wondering if the medication Ranger are taking is making him pant so much.  I know Predisone does, but the antibiotics and other non-steroid meds for his itchiness shouldnt.  Hhmmm, I still think he’s getting old and cannot tolerate heat anymore. 

Db woke me up this morning at 3:30 telling me it’s time to get up if I want to go for my walk.  He is not going coz he needed to clean the carpets and rugs.  Immediately I was awake when I heard that.  He said when he got up at 2:30, he walked out to the kitchen and the thought he smelled some thing was not right.  He looked around the house, the boys- Ranger and Chase were laying in the living room, Coops was laying in the hallway to our room.  He got a cup of coffee, walked to the executive office and BOOM!  There there were, 6 piles of puke and crap: 2 piles of puke and 4 piles of crap.  Lovely.

That was what he has been doing the whole day.  Cleaned up the puke and crap, sprayed them down with some pet-odor-remover-stuff, soaked them up, waited for the spots to dry, repeat the action.  Bring the big rug outside.  I left for work at 5:40 to get away from it all.

When I got home, he had the office carpet cleaned up, all shampooed and vacuumed and the rug too which he had to haul it to the basement, run it through the shampooer. 

We were trying to figure out who was the culprit.  All three didn’t go into the office this morning.  Too stinky.  So, who could it be?  Ranger, Chase or Cooper?  Our guess was Cooper because he looked guilty but DB thinks it was Chase.  But whoever it was, it does not matter.  It’s over with.  DB is now sitting down relaxing, finally.

Here are the three boys, Ranger, Chase and Cooper, sitting pretty watching me eating my apple.  Yeah, can’t resist, I had to give them each a little bit of my apple.  Beggars can’t b e choosers.

Chase is getting big.  We promoted him and now he is out of his kennel.  He has outgrown his kennel at 6 months old.  DB and I thought he will be ok if he is out of his kennel.  It’s has been 4 nights since he is sleeping without the kennel in our room with the door opened.  He is doing good; knows how to bark loud if he really needs to go out for his potty.  He and Cooper are getting to be best buddies now.  They play a few times a day every day.

This is Chase sleeping next by the dining table while I was punching away on the laptop.  He has been sleeping in this position since he was a little pup.  I guess some things never change.

The tiled floor in the kitchen is now their favorite spot to chill, besides the bathroom tiled floor.   The above picture is Cooper all out after running and playing with the puppy.  Coops, you are not young anymore, buddy.