I took this video on the day of our move at our old house. I had to put all three of them in my office coz they were in the way when the guys were moving stuff. It tickles me to see them howl each time the siren goes off. Every 1st Wednesday of the month, the sirens will go off – testing for severe weather. Whether it is the severe weather siren or the police/fire truck, they will howl just like in the video.
It’s not so bad if the dogs are outside but when they are confined inside a small room, the howling is just so so loud….almost deafening.
Today is Tuesday and we are still in this house, semi packed, still waiting for one application approval from the rental property owner, waiting for the church members to get back to me if they can find a foster or temporary home for the young-un (Chase) and I still have time for blogging!!
Most of my stuff are packed except for bathroom and clothes. DB, no idea what he had packed, his office crap were packed, i know that. We arranged for helpers – my friend’s hubby, DB’s 2 nephews and whoever the nephews can bring with them to help. We also arranged for a moving truck and booked a storage unit for just in case one of the rental properties denied our application…the rental unit we want is much x10 smaller than the other one we saw which we can store a lot more of the bigger items.
We will be bringing the two older boys with us to whichever rental unit we end up with. Chase will be going somewhere which I do not know where. Initially we looked at a house and the owner and his wife were ok and approved our application, and the owner said ok with the 3 dogs. The next day when we were getting ready to leave for the owner’s to drop the rent and deposit check, the owner called to say his wife decided to declined our application because she does not want dogs in the house!!!! Knnb, that almost blew my faith away, and I’m just hanging in there now. I was scrambling to find a place for us 5 and finally made up our decision to only keep the 2 older boys. We were torn….which one(s) to keep…the 2 older ones are more expensive since they are older and the young one is way cheaper. But we had the two older ones for 10 years and really hard to see them go to another home. So we decided to give Chase away since he is still young and someone can make a good hunting dog out of him. He has excellent hunting instincts. After making our decision, we hunt up the internet for house, townhomes, condos/apts. Saw a few townhomes (terrace homes) on Sunday and Monday. The last one we saw was yesterday afternoon and she wont get back to us till this afternoon.
The other townhome application was approved but like I said is very small and we have to put most of our stuff in storage (extra cost) and we don’t get to move to the one we want yet till next month. So we thought we will wait for the one we saw yesterday, slightly bigger and has a lot of storage space and of coz the rent is higher.
The entire weekend and up till this moment I’m typing this, I’m still worried, but the man said not to worry, everything will work out and we will be moved out by tomorrow before the sheriff comes knocking on our door and evict us.
One of DB’s nephews will be here later this afternoon. I got some sandwich meat for us coz I know I won’t have time to cook. I even bought plastic cups and use up some custom plastic cups I got from work last week, and paper plates. They are free, what the heck!
The only time I’m not stress is when I’m sitting right in front of the pc with FB games!!! :) Well, also when I walk the boys and especially walking Cooper and Chase…..the walk is way faster than when I walk Ranger.
Here’s a picture of Chasey, probably the last picture I will take of him. Picture taken few days ago after a lot of running and fetching, hence the hanging tongue….this dog lives to fetch.
One of the church member said he might have his parents take Chasey to northern Iowa where his parents own a hobby farm….big acreage for him to roam around, however, he has to be an outside dog which kinda saddens me, coz Chase is not an outside dog and never has been. I’m not sure, everything with him is still up in the air. I yet to hear from the other lady who arranges foster homes for dogs/cats. Keeping my fingers cross he will have a home to go to by tomorrow night coz tomorrow will be his last day with us. I’m crying now.
And by the way, the three dogs knows something is up. They are extremely clingy. I guess they think we are sending them away for good or we are going somewhere and leaving them.
DB thinks Ranger is and angel….because of his calm disposition, no whine, no demands compare to the other two C’s. No doubt he is calm but when it comes to food, he is not, he will hound you till he gets it! And another thing is it sure seem like he knows we are doing something to him. Last week I saw blood in his pee while we out in the trails….so I had to call DB to make an appointment with the vet that evening and brought him in soon after. Sure enough he had bladder infection….that was my initial guess besides kidney infection since that fella only drinks twice a day and pees only once in the morning and a few times in the evening…..nothing in the afternoon. He was prescribed antibiotics and DB brought home a urine sample kit to collect Ranger’s urine!
One glove, a plastic vile, liquid squeezer (not sure what to call that thing), tray and instructions. I thought collecting urine is as easy as using the oximeter, and so I thought! :(
After 8 days of treatment with the prescribed antibiotics, we need to collect Ranger’s urine to send it back to the vet for analysis. Take a look at the instructions:
Read it? I laughed so hard the moment I saw the EQUIPMENT….a soup ladle! OMG, I was floored. DB tried in the morning with a ladle in his gloved hand walking out with Ranger, but DB said Ranger knew something was not right…coz DB never come out of the house when sending them out for potty. Ranger walked to the middle of the yard, heavy snow and took his time….DB didn’t go….he said it was a pain…my thinking, DB is just lazy to walk out there! :(
So my turn to try get the urine sample. I took him to the trials with my own collection kit:
That plastic bottle is a used medication bottle….cleaned and dried it and off we went. I didn’t bring a ladle with me! Goodness what people out in the trails would think when they see me holding the ladle with the dog peeing!!! I can just imagine it. So I put the glove on and the moment we got the truck, Ranger peed but that fella had to pee at an angle where I couldn’t catch the pee in the bottle. …Now I know why the ladle!!!!!! And the glove absolutely helped!!!! So after 3 tries, I gave up. He was too quick and impromptu, plus my hands were already freezing.
We took him back to the vet and they collected his urine….they must had insert something to his urethra coz it was so quick he came out from the room. Still waiting for the results. But the urine collection was just too hillarious….but i hope he is free from infection…
This is Chase, the crazy fetching nut. Any stick on sight, he will pick it up and run it to me to throw for him. But what I want to say is….
….I still think he is on the heavy side…in other words, fat. But the master said he is just nice for the winter. He needs the extra fat to keep warm, he said. I think the temperature is not that cold now. 20’s Fahrenheit is decent. I understand if the temp is in the teens and single digits but when it reaches 20’s I find it kinda warm too when I go for my walks with a jacket on.
The last we weigh him he was 92 pounds and that was probably 6 – 7 months ago. I once cut his food down to 2.5 cups a day his ribs were sticking out and he was constantly begging for food and the master said he was too thin. I forgot to ask the vet what his ideal weight should be which i assume he will tell “as long as you can feel his ribs”. Well, I can sorta feel his ribs but can’t see them now. Honestly I have to walk them twice a day but it’s tiring to walk 4 times a day – I still walk Chase and Cooper separate from Ranger.
Since it got so cold in the house, I noticed the dogs were laying only on the rugs and not the carpets. So I brought out the two old dog beds and right away Chase and Cooper booked them as theirs. Poor Ranger being the old mellow fella, continued to lay and sleep on the rugs which i stack them up to make it thicker. Then I got a brilliant idea, I thought so. I brought out two of our spare pillows in the closet, one a feather and the other a don’t know what poly-thing-filled using one of the boys’ old fleece throw to cover the pillows. Ranger sorta laid on it but he itched like mad. Duh, then the light bulb went on!!! He is allergic to feathers except cotton and don’t know what other fiber.
Last Saturday, I bought a new dog bed for Ranger at Sams Club. Cheap for the price of an xtra large bed. Brought it home they didn’t even bother to lay on it. Just gave a sniff and walked away, but when evening came when dinner and snacks were all done, I saw one of the boys were not with me. Went looking around and saw this fella there: Cooper
Two days later, Chase was smart….he went in there right away after his snack. Sleeping like a baby after an hour of fetching.
This was where Chase suppose to sleep, on the blue bed. Red bed is Cooper’s. So now since Chase sleeps on the big ass bed, Cooper sleeps on the red one, leaves the blue one left but Ranger is so nice. When he sees Cooper sleeping on the red bed, he will not walk past Cooper’s bed to the empty bed. So considerate of him!!! Hahahaha!
Anyways, I do bring the blue bed out closer to the door and he will sleep there.
