Well, since I had all of no time yesterday to get a thankful post in, I am going to combine two days in one! So I better make it good!
Well, for day three I will have to say that I am thankful for my entire family. The family that lives with us and the family that doesn’t. Without family you are really can’t enjoy life. Sure you can go on living and all that but what do you have for the holidays, what do you have for every day? Who are you going to celebrate the good times with and lean on for the bad times?
As a family, we’ve gone through plenty of both!
Day three is out of the way, now for day four I am thankful to my furbabies.
Ruby – German Shepherd/Malamute
Trinity – Misunderstood.
Lollipop – Basement cat.
So, I am thankful for my current furbabies as well as the babies that have passed on. They all bring something special to my life.
We went to the park today and had a blast. The last time we went to the park Duncan was itty bitty and didn’t look around or anything.
I wanted to go to the park for two main reasons. I wanted Ruby to run around to her hearts content and I wanted to take pictures there. The pictures will come at a later post but, I just wanted to show off our first ever (after 5 months, pretty sad, huh?) family picture!
On Tuesday after we had come home from the doctor’s appointment, we had been downstairs talking to my mom downstairs. I had heard our dog upstairs yipping a couple of times but thought that she was getting into it with the cat that was also in our room, as it happens off and on. The yipping didn’t last very long so I thought nothing of it.
When we went upstairs, I noticed she was laying on her bed. I asked Jamie if she was in trouble because usually she jumps around and gets excited, she didn’t do any of that. He said maybe she’s just being a good girl. I thought, yea right!
So when my brother came into our room and she stayed there I thought, there’s something definitely wrong. I went to change my pants and she didn’t get up. So I told Jamie we need to look at her and figure out what’s wrong. She got up and had yipped like someone had kicked her.
She wouldn’t walk without yipping, she was shaking, and also breathing really heavy. Jamie checked out all her paws in case there was something stuck in her paw but found nothing. We got her to walk a bit, we had her roll on her back and she started urinating, which was worrisome as well! Finally, she laid down under Jamie’s chair and wouldn’t come out. She wouldn’t even come to us when we called her.
Right then we said she’s gotta go to the vet. It was 4pm and they close at 5pm unless you want to get charged for an after hours visit. So speedily (seriously, Jamie, who never speeds, was speeding! Thankfully, he stopped when I asked him to) we got in the car and took her to the vet.
We get there, find she weighs 80lbs and the vet sees her, after we had to muzzle her. She’s not socialized.
There’s a picture I was able to take with my phone when the vet was doing something else.
Well, he said he couldn’t find anything wrong with her. He said maybe she had sprained her back leg but he couldn’t tell. She didn’t walk funny, not once did she yip there (of course) and he pulled her legs, checked them all and even violated her by taking her temperature. He ended up giving her an anti-inflammatory pain medication to take for a week and sent us on our way.
Thankfully it didn’t cost too much, about $50 altogether which we were pleased about as we don’t have much money. That night she was chasing her tail and everything like normal. However, not well because she doesn’t charge up and down the stairs.
She’s getting better though and starting to take the stairs better. She hasn’t yipped since that night while walking or anything. We still don’t know what happened except maybe she jumped off our bed wrong since it’s pretty high up.
Who knows!
Ruby is a fantastic dog, when she wants to be. She knows a good amount of tricks, loves to wrestle with her daddy, and will make you yell your heart out when you’re taking her to the bathroom because she runs off and starts eating plants. Every. Single. Time.
Now, since Shaina had Jeremy she has gotten quite jealous when he comes to spend time in our room. It’s when she wants the most attention. However, don’t get her wrong, she loves that little man. Especially when he has food…
She likes laying by him but doesn’t so much like being hit by things in his hand so she will often get up and move.
Now with all this, you have to wonder, how is she going to be when Jamie and my baby is born?
I’ll tell you. Protective. She has a heart of gold but with anything baby related she gets protective. It’s not other people around the baby we’ll have to worry about. It’s Ruby around the other people with the baby! She might try to something sneaky and someone will be losing a finger, and it’s not the baby!
Unexpectedly one of our cat’s fell pregnant. I say unexpectedly because she never gets out of the house. Barely is downstairs when someone isn’t down there. Is usually in my room sleeping. All day. All night.
During her pregnancy she didn’t even gain the “oval” shaped belly. But she was pregnant and she did have kittens. Unfortunately for the kittens, one was undeveloped and was a still birth, one made it but was sick as she went to hide it under my bed, and then one made it and was healthy. The sick one died two days later next to Lolli. Very sad but also expected.
The one that made it is still not old enough to find its own home yet so we’re enjoying watching it explore and run around.
We call the kitten Short Stack.
As all baby animals, Ruby has taken a strong liking to the kitten and tries to be the Mama. You can see the total size difference from Ruby’s nose to the kitten! This was in mid patting at her nose.
I have also caught a rare photo. One I have always wondered how people get them. How they manage to be there at the right time, how they managed to stop looking at the top diet pills and take a picture of…a cat mid yawn!
I did it. It’s beautiful. Okay, so maybe Short Stack looks a bit psychotic, that’s okay though.
I am victorious!
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