Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

Sometime last month, I had to buy a new frisbee for Chase. His favorite one is a Nylabone frisbee which was once belonged to Cooper. Since Chase came along and horded all of the frisbees that once were Cooper’s, Cooper just didn’t bother….as if to say, let the young-un enjoy them now. :D

However, that fav frisbee is now somewhere in the woods. I tossed it too hard and it landed somewhere in the deep shrubs. I went up and looked and searched but could not find it. I will get back to looking for it in the fall.

Anyway, I thought I had better get another frisbee for this crazy fetcher. So I bought one cheapy plastic frisbee meant for humans and what a big mistake that was. It only lasted 2 weeks or less and I had to toss it coz he was chewing it to pieces and some parts were missing which I assumed he swallowed them!!

This is what that human frisbee turned out after the Chase-abused:

Then I bought another one which the girl told me is super durable and a little more expensive, about $14.

The feel of this frisbee is totally different. It’s not flexible plastic, but it’s like rubber and heavier. It took me a while to get use to throwing it.

Letting Chase smell and feel it.

Chase lives to fetch and “abuse”! :) He really knows how to “knead” those darn frisbees whether they are plastic or flexible ones. He will keep “kneading” them till you force him to let go. The weird thing is he will only start the “kneading” thing after 8 minutes or so of fetching….after he has his “fix” of fetching! :D

Now, this is what the new blue frisbee looks like after a month and 5 days:

The middle portion of the frisbee are tear up and so when he fetches it, he will sometimes comes back looking like this:

He is definitely a comedian, makes me laugh a lot. The frisbee does not “fly” very far with its “injured” body. DB said we need to get another Nylabone frisbee which really last. The lost Nylabone frisbee we bought was in 2001, and it’s still flying albeit a lot of teeth marks. This weekend a trip to Petco will me on my calendar.

Since we moved to this new place a month ago, every evening’s routine with Chase is the same. He will wait for me to come back from my walk with the two older ones. Once I get home, he will start whining up a storm to get out….out to the driveway for his Frisbee. I have to say, all these fetching for 15 – 20 minutes every day does help keep him slim. He lost 15 pounds and is now a trim 87 pound-er. The vet gave a thumbs up on his new weight. The below picture was taken last week. Notice his nice waistline which I don’t even have one myself! :)

The thing about him fetching is he is a very slimy, drooly dog when he starts fetching. After a few throws of the frisbee, there will slime all over the frisbee which is super gross plus around his mouth. It looks frothy and he will be panting as if someone is in need of an inogen oxygen concentratorto help them breathe. Another 10 more minutes, he really is super gross with drool and slime even on his legs and head. This is because when i throw the slime/drool filled Frisbee, the gross stuff will fly too, which will land on him. Utterly disgusting. 

The pic below you can see the frothy lips and the slime on the Frisbee (his beloved Frisbee) and some under his right eye.  I have to carry couple paper towels with me when I throw his Frisbee.  He has been a very drooly  dog all along but now that he is bigger, man, it’s worse.

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.

Will update later.

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.

The fetching fool

This post is long long overdue. Back in October or September (so long ago, I can’t even remember!), I notice there were a lot of red bumps on Chase’s jaw, right at the bottom of his chin. DB look at it and he thinks it’s NBD (no big deal). So I thought nbd, nbd lah. Took a picture of it but memory card spoiled. That is why no picture up here. He said nothing to loose our sleep over this. Cooper had them before but then back in 2001, Cooper was a year old and being first time dog owner we sure brought him to the vet. Vet of course prescribed medication. But for Chase….more chin-chai.

So, I left it be for 2 weeks, DB already left for TX. The red bumps became boil like bumps. So what I did, I put my acne cream on them which became the best acne treatment in my book for Chase’s acne!!! They dried up within a day and some in two days.  Moreover, I used a sterilized needle to bust some of those boils.  Not an easy task coz that fella was squirming around trying to get away (who wouldn’t, right?) and just me trying to hold him down with my legs.  Now he is acne free.  I searched the web and it is very common for dogs or even cats to develop acne from the oil in the food, dirt and bacteria.